The Rejected Luna Queen

Aurora's POV

I sat on the Luna's seat in the throne room, right next to Alpha Bane who sat on the throne and it felt quite good. Although we had been married for a while, it was my first time there and it was a proud moment for me.

I was unaccustomed to the name 'Luna,' usually, feeling very uncomfortable whenever anyone called me that but at that time, I wasn't anymore. I embraced it fully with joy. Indeed, I loved it so much.

It was already several hours since Alpha Bane came back and happiness had returned to the family. I could see the rays of sunshine, slowly making their way into the room to signify the breaking of the dawn.

Unlike the bloody mess that he was, the previous night, Alpha Bane was very clean. Some of his wounds had also healed and I was happy to see that. It hurt me so much to see him in so much pain and I wanted nothing more than to see that he was better.

I leaned back into my seat and began to recall everything that he said to me and our parents when he got back to the Pack. The story stuck in my head and never wanted to leave. I didn't want it to leave. It was the solution to the problems that we had faced for so many years.

He told us what happened when he got to the Pack where Sophia and Dylan were. He recounted his encounter with Dylan and how he slew him after the fight that they had. He claimed to somehow regret taking the life of his brother, which was something that ordinarily, he wouldn't have done but I wasn't surprised that he did that.

The witch already prophesied that something would come over him and he'll become so violent. The abduction of our son solidified that feeling which already started before then, and put him in that state. I could understand him.

Again, he told us how he couldn't let his body rot in the Pack. Instead, he brought his dead body back to the Pack so that he'll be given a kind of burial only befitting for princes in the Pack. He wanted nothing less than a proper burial for his brother.

His father and the elders disputed it. They pointed out that according to their tradition, because Dylan betrayed the Pack, he was to be cast out as a rogue wolf and not buried in the Pack but he refuted their claims.

He was the Alpha. It was his word that was taken as law, no matter what had been said. That was how good it felt to be a man of total authority.

It wasn't only Dylan that Alpha Bane returned with. He also came back with Princess Sophia and I looked forward to meeting with her even after all that she had done to me. It wasn't to be as it seemed she wasn't cut out for another time in the dungeon. Instead, she decided to take her life. She felt it was a better alternative to being imprisoned once again with little or no hope of getting out since all of her allies were already dead.

Before Alpha Bane could get to her, she had already run to her room where she hung herself. Thankfully, and quite surprisingly, she didn't take the life of our son. She let him live while she took her life. It was strange and unlike her but I was grateful for it. If she killed him, the journey would have been in vain, even after their deaths.

Alpha Bane also returned with Dylan's mother and this time, it wasn't her corpse that was returned; she was still very much alive. However, she was now incredibly sick with an incurable sickness. I loved to think that it was the reward for all of her wickedness. All of them paid for everything that they did; for all the pain that they inflicted upon others. The goddess had decided to visit them as enough was true, enough.

"Aurora. Aurora."

"Yes..."

I was brought out of my thoughts by Alpha Bane who seemed to have noticed that

I was lost in thoughts and needed me to stay alert.

I turned to him and gave him a thumbs up, showing that I was ready for what was about to happen but I wasn't. We were to see our son. Well, he had already seen him but I hadn't. So technically, I was the one to see him, even though the boy also didn't know that Alpha Bane was his father as he didn't have the time to talk about all of that.noveldrama

So I waited in the throne room. That was why we went there so early in the morning. I was more than anxious to set my eyes on him and thankfully, Alpha Bane was by my side.

"Will he accept us as his parents?" I asked Alpha Bane with years in my eyes. "Are you sure that the boy would be willing to see me as his mother after spending several years with Sophia?"

"Don't worry, my love," he replied. "With time, the little boy will surely become accustomed to our presence and he'll learn to see us for who we truly are."

As he finished the statement, the door opened and one of the guards walked into the room with their son who looked at us in shock. I didn't know what he'd feel after the death of his supposed father at the hands of Alpha Bane and that of his supposed mother who hung herself.

Another thing that scared the hell out of me was what Sophia might have said to him concerning us. Seeing that she didn't take his life, I knew that she could have said some words to the boy so that he'd be our next problem but I hoped in my heart that she didn't. The boy was far too young to have to put up with all of that.

"Hey, little one," I began, not knowing what name they called him. I was determined to change his name and give him a name that I felt was befitting. "I'm Aurora, your mother, and I'm happy to see you here."

I urged him to come forward and he did, with the guard walking alongside him. I stood from my chair and held his hands before lifting him and holding him close to me with joy.

I kissed him on the forehead and made him face his father. "Do you know him?" I asked, and he shook his head.

"I'm Alpha Bane, your father. I came to your former house to take you back from the people who stole you from your mom and me. I'm so glad to see you, son."