DON'T REJECT ME, ALPHA!

CHAPTER 9: FIERY WHEELS

Titan’s POV

“Where did she go ?” Zayn panicked in the middle of the night as he shifted back to his human form, while I watched the scene unfold from behind the trees.

Mate had gone out of the hut in the middle of the night before I could sneak in without her knowing or my beta’s knowing, as he stood guard along with his two warriors outside her place. I didn’t want Zayn rubbing it on my face so that I couldn’t take back my Luna to the palace yet. If the information was true, someone from the women's quarters was sabotaging the throne and I couldn’t risk my beautiful mate’s life.

I usually got to my sleeping mate’s side before the beta arrived and the scent inhibitors were doing a fantastic job of keeping everyone at bay. It was a struggle to gain control over Rhyghyr every night, but oh well, I had many tricks up my sleeve.

I trotted closer to the scene where mate had seemingly vanished into thin air. She was standing at the spot by the canal one moment and the next thing we knew, she had disappeared from the place!

However, within the blink of an eye, Zayn’s knife clashed with someone else’s, but Zayn was a second too late to counter the second knife that pierced straight into his bare, tattooed shoulder.

Cornered against a tree, Zayn surrendered with a grunt and his hands in the air. Blood dribbled from the centre of his circular, intricate tattoo like anger dribbling from mate’s eyes.

When she pinned the first knife near the beta’s throat, Zayn’s warriors lunged towards her, but Zayn shot up his hand and signalled them to go away.

I crouched lower so that they didn’t find me on the way out.

Peeking back at the intense scene between the two, my lips curled up when mate nicked the bastard’s throat. I didn’t care if she killed him. Less burden on this planet.

‘You should care,’ Rhyghyr gritted out. ‘He is our beta and bestfriend.’

‘Yeah, he can go and fvck himself,’ I shrugged and Rhyghyr blamed the moon goddess for pairing him with the most “inferrating” or was it “infuriating”? Whatever the word, he claimed that I was that “inforatting” royal-blooded wolf for the thousandth time.

However, I was in for a shock when I noticed something peculiar about mate.

I knew that she had lost her wolf since she couldn’t feel me every night but I didn’t know that she had lost her voice too !!

“Dr Veneto, please hear me out,” Zayn winced when the knife in his shoulder was driven in deeper. Oh yes, the Moon Goddess had sent the perfect mini-her as my mate and I was one lucky son of a b***h.

‘Language, Titan,’ Rhyghyr raised his voice at me. Yeah, yeah, whatever.

“Master Veneto, please,” Zayn was suddenly on his knees, begging for mercy and my attention zapped back to what he had said!

He called her Master!! That means he was her true …

“Guardian,” Zayn breathily said. “Don’t kill me, Master. I swear to protect you,” he gasped at every word. When he couldn’t say another word, without coughing blood, Zayn told her something while gesturing with his hands. I wish I had paid more attention in school and could understand what that creep was telling my Luna.

‘You don’t learn those things at school, Titan,’ Rhyghyr told me as patiently as he could and patience, my friends, he had zilch. Nada. Not at all.

‘So you are no better than me? I knew it! School is a scam. Mom should have let us catch squirrels and rabbits in the forest,’ I grumbled.

‘I swear to god, I will never let you near our mate if you keep telling me your inane theories, get it? Now let me understand what is happening out there,’ Rhyghyr growled.

‘Hey! Chill, brah. No need to get pissy,’ I replied.

‘You got to be kidding me. You couldn’t pick up a word from school but you learnt everything from Netflix in a jiffy?’ Rhyghyr asked incredulously.

‘Yeah, because that’s where real learning takes place, mudah-phucka,’ I said it in style just like I had learnt it.

‘Why Moon Goddess, why?’ Rhyghyr screamed and disappeared. Well, that suited me. Now, I could do whatever I wanted to do without my human interfering with what was on my mind.

Hence, I went trotting after my mate in her hut after Zayn and his warriors left for the night and got him checked in the infirmary on his master’s insistence.

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Maya’s POV

I closed my eyes and thought about Zayn. He understood me. Soul deep.

He knew what I wanted to say without saying. I knew we had a connection the moment I crashed into him at the hospital. When I pierced the blade near his heart, the connection felt deeper, as if the knife had ripped me out. The pain was intense.

However, I couldn’t shake off the feeling that I had seen the tattoo on his shoulder somewhere. It felt familiar as if we had read about a long lost royal lineage years ago and seen their symbol. However, that intricate wheel on actual skin seemed to cause chaos in my memories.

Was it possible that I didn’t dream about a passionate, midnight visitor every night and Zayn was actually the wolf who held me at my lowest point weeks ago? The one who made me feel the most alive when I felt like I was dying on the inside? The one who licked off my tears and fed me healing blood at night?

I didn’t have my wolf but I could swear that everything seemed to be platonic from both sides. It seemed like I got an overprotective brother. Even if he had been watching out for me as he claimed, why did I feel that there was a missing link that neither I nor Zayn knew about?

I sighed. So much had happened tonight and I needed to sleep over it so that I could think in the morning with a fresh mind.

The night seemed to be at its coldest but my heavy eyes didn’t care. They just wanted to sleep. They knew that once darkness came over, light would follow suit along with its warmth. However, little did they know that tonight was the night that we were going to find out the truth. The whole truth ….

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Rhyghyr’s POV

Titan nuzzled his head in her neck as he effortlessly scooped her in his lap and wound a protective tail around her. Caressing her hair with his blue paws, he looked deeply at the sleeping beauty.

‘She is beautiful,’ he whispered. ‘She is perfect. Just like the goddess,’ he gently removed a stray strand of hair off her face.

‘She is,’ I agreed. ‘But that is not what is on your mind,’ I added.

‘Hmm,’ the lycan hummed, not letting his eyes off her for even a second. He placed a loving paw on her cheek and added, ‘She is perfect, but the others wouldn’t be able to see it.’

‘You are right. That’s what killed mom and dad,’ I agreed.

‘Love is not enough,’ Titan whispered, the lycan’s eyes clouding with tears. We had watched the nightmare come to life in front of our very own eyes. Titan didn’t speak to me for months after that. He had completely shut me down. However, we still made it to this point somehow.

‘That’s true, but we can’t live secretly with our mate like this for the rest of our lives. She will eventually find out and we have to take care of the pups,’ I replied.

‘And neither can we wait for five years to wait for people to accept omegas as their lunas. They didn’t change three decades back. What is to say that they will change in another five years, or even a hundred years?’ He asked.

The sleeping beauty suddenly stirred in her sleep. She must have felt Titan’s agitated state.

‘Calm down, Titan! You will wake her up,’ I hissed. ‘We won’t let anything happen to her. We will learn from what happened to our parents.’

‘All we have learnt is that mom paid for it with her life for something that she didn’t have control over, and dad handed us over to his friend, before joining her in her battle. No one came to their aid, Rhyghyr. They were left fighting alone with a million, bloodthirsty subjects, just because they were angry for getting an omega luna. Their king’s mate－ the goddess’ chosen gift to him!’ He angrily poured on his woes.

‘What do you propose then? We can’t take her to the palace with us nor can we leave her here alone! And the result remains the same in both cases. My mate and pups shall remain in danger nonetheless and I can’t stay openly with them!! Damned if we do and damned if we don’t,’ I replied.

‘Yes, we can’t take her with us nor can we leave her on her own,’ Titan agreed. ‘But we can bring her to us and no one would be able to do a thing,’ he grinned.

‘No!’ I strongly nixed. ‘No, no, no! We are not taking such a huge risk, Titan!! What if she doesn’t pass? And not to forget that she will be pregnant or travelling with three small pups! Both cases are against the odds!!’

‘That’s too bad, Alpha Longstone. Because we both know that she can take advantage of that fact. That’s the only way to protect our Luna and keep her by our side. In any case, you know that only I can make such a declaration and you won’t be able to stop me!’ Titan smugly replied. ‘Lycans are fiercely loyal to their soulmates, even if we haven’t met them. Hence, no one can protest against a lycan’s declaration for that and you know it.’

‘Look at the one who learnt nothing at school, but seems to know when to say “hence” and surely picked up a few ninja techniques to blackmail, not to forget that you understand royal traditions that suit your interests!’ I hissed.

Titan licked our mate’s cheek softly, his own way of kissing her and said, ‘It’s not just my interest, Rhyghyr. She’s our interest,’ he pointed out before we found ourselves flipped over and a knife near our neck.

Her eyes said it all- tell me who you are?

And Rule #101 of the Luna Trials was clear.

The lycan king never revealed his true identity to a participant.

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