Longing For My Rejected Luna

*****Erika's POV*****

"Why don't you release the girl, Rika?" Paula probed again. For the umpteenth time.

I groaned in annoyance, giving her my disapproving stare.

"I support her, Rika." Kat nodded from her position on her bed.

I shot Kat my meanest glare, she only sighed, clearly unperturbed by what my glare meant.

"What are you girls saying? I should just let her go?" I could not believe they wanted me to do that.

"You're doing this to teach the father a lesson, aren't you? Do it to the father directly and leave the girl out of it." Paula opined.

"It is true. Elder Grigshade committed the crime, his daughter should not have to do with anything. It's been complete twenty four hours already, release her." Kat urged further.

"Have you forgotten she wants to elope with your mate?" I asked, trying to use that point to get her by my side. How could my two best friends be against my decision?noveldrama

They should even understand the most? They should be supporting my decision not go against me. Elder Grigshade would never learn to respect me and if I must get that respect, it was through the thing or rather, the person he loved the most and held dear - Tasyra.

This was not even supposed to be part of the discussion e should be having. I wanted to know how that guy's body just disappeared without trace, no evidence that someone was killed, according to Jace. Not even the knife he'd brought with him that had ended up becoming his own death weapon.

I shuddered fearfully. Almost close and life would have been snuffed out of me, a little show of weakness and I would have been gone. Father's legacy would have been destroyed because Jace never wanted to rule or become the Alpha.

He would have ruled but It would not have been with the same drive and passion that dad had possessed. Not even the kind I was possessing. Ever since dad had let me know I was going to be the next Alpha, I had prepared myself for it.

Even when I'd found Alexander to be my mate, dad had thought it would not work but had allowed me to with an agreement form to fill. Now that the plan to stay married had not worked out, I was to return to my pack and take on the royal mantle. There was an agreement my friends were not aware of, I did not tell them.

Dad had said if my marriage would not work, then I would rule as Alpha of Iron Claw and never fall in love or have a mate ever again. At the time, it had been an easy agreement to sign. I had never thought Alexander would prove to be difficult and not reciprocate my love.

I sighed. Well, that was done and gone. I had agreed and I just had to focus on the issue at hand — finding the truth. Which was what I was trying to do, I had no prove that Tasyra was guilty, despite her father's disrespectful words to me but if I let her go, I had nothing more.

I would be back to square zero. There was no dead body in the river, no trace on how he got there or even who had sent. I was beginning to regret why I had not searched him that day. Maybe if I had searched his body, I might had found something. A clue, probably. Something to help me lead this search.

"Don't say that." Kat said, intruding my thoughts unintentionally.

I sighed away frustration. "I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be insensitive and selfish, I'm sorry."

"Then let her go." Kat said.

"Are you still angry?" I wanted to know before we proceeded with such talks.

"No, I'm not. I understand how you're feeling at this point." She smiled.

I exhaled in relief. "Thank you."

"Now, will you release her?" Paula inquired.

I sat down on my own bed. "Guys, this is not just about her dad exhibiting a crazy narcissistic behavior."

"What is it about then?" Paula wanted to know.

"Everything that has been happening to us. There's no clue, girls. None at all. We don't know who poisoned my father because there was no driver with him. No escort whatsoever. He was alone, and chosen it thatway for reasons best known to him. Now, it was Kat, she would have died and we would have no clue, Paula."

I stood up to wear out the floor with my agitated pacing again.

"We don't know who those people were yet they knew exactly where to find her. That was her favorite spot, and I used to go there with her. Pack members barely go there and don't think those people were from this pack and if they were sent, someone from this pack had sent them. They might have thought they were going to see me, but ended up seeing Kat. Just Kat. And they attacked her."

I pushed the image of seeing Kat lying in her wolf form, almost bleeding to death with broken bones. That particular memory panged my heart, even when I'd heard Paula's scream as she'd been scratched on her back.

"Barely minutes later, I was at the river. It did not take a day or hours, another attack came on. The got me this time. I was what they wanted. Only someone from this pack could achieve such feat within a day. How had they being fast enough to notice it was Kat? How quick had they known I was going to be at the river? Alone? Tasyra cane just as soon as the whole thing with Kat happened and she was barely gone after I had rejected her wine offer when I was attacked. This is too much of a

coincidence to be true." I concluded.

"I see your point now and honestly, I do not know what to say anymore." Paula

sighed.

Her phone beeped. A notification. She opened her phone and the series of emotions her expression went through in under ten seconds was enough to halt

my pacing and go to her. Even Kat was feeling concerned already.

She looked at both of us, she was trying not to cry.

"What happened, P?" Kat's voice shook with dread and worry.

She stood. "I need to start leaving. I'm sorry I can't stay any longer, girls."

She walked to my closet and pulled out her bag. I could not let her leave like that,

I quickly went to her. My ankle was healing so I was not limping that much anymore. I pulled her into an embrace.

"I...I... it's...oh, Mother of the Moon.." And she burst into tears accepting my comfort.