chapter 7

◇Aragon◇

Suck it.

Holding her hair into a tight bun, I pushed myself more and more. The raw feelings of her warm lips around me sent me over the edge. I was feeling ecstatic looking at my half-naked mate sitting on her knees, pleasuring me like a good girl. Her reddened face and helpless gagging made me want to ravish her then and there. 

I forced her face to meet mine to see her craving and panting for me. And those eyes, those purple eyes met mine….

Fuck!

I looked around to adjust the sudden shock. Again, it was a dream. I was feeling desperate for a human, that human who was none other than my mate, even who dared to reject me in the first place. 

'Do you think she will worship you when you were behaving like a big moron?'

Ufff! That annoying wolf of mine couldn't keep his mouth shut even for once. I had an urge to grip his throat and as whose side he was. But too bad, the moon goddess sent him with me. He popped up in my life uninvited.

'I didn't want any mate. You know, I don't need her.' 

My reply only made him roll his eyes, 'Liar! Then how come you are having wet dreams about her?'

Raising an eyebrow he smirked, 'Not that you are experienced in it.'

This brat!!

He again started blubbering something annoying. Not giving a shit about his constant teasing, I tried to get up from my bed. Maybe for two good seconds, I forgot the agonizing pain down my spine. I let put a hissing sound but muffled it into myself before anyone could find me this vulnerable.

'See, maybe you don't want her, you need her.' 

This time his voice contained seriousness instead of amusement. Not that he was wrong. Right after her rejection, I felt like tearing my soul apart. A stingy pain hovered over my body and mind, I could barely control myself from feeling desperate for her, craving for her scent. 

Being a cursed one, I never had any authority according to the mate thing. No matter how powerful any one could be, there must be a weakness to tame him. And that moment I knew, she was my weakness. I never accepted her rejection, because that wasn't something I could manage. There was still some bond between us, a faint bond that couldn't even help me to find her. But one thing for sure, sometimes I could feel my body burning painfully. Didn't know what it was, I guess it was some kind of pain she was going through.

I wanted to send her out of my life but never thought of rejection. I was taking time to make sure we could be safe and she was perfect to be the Luna of mine. But my pack fell in danger for her. I didn't know if she was good or bad, my pack was my first priority. I thought her rejection would be okay with my pack even if it would hurt me. Heck, I was wrong! She went away from my life snatching a lot from every member of my territory.

Ughh, I hate her for this. 

"Alpha!" The voice of Alpha Arthur took me out of those thoughts. He was standing at the corner of my door with hooded eyes staring at me with pity, pain, and sympathy. He knew what I was going through. Maybe that's why he was desperate to keep Ven here. 

"You here?" I asked in a low voice not wanting him to guess my pains.

"Son, I know I'm not even worthy of giving you suggestions. As I have always treated you as my child more than a benefactor, I wanted to say one thing again, no matter how powerful an Alpha is, he can never become a great one without a Luna. I know you need her, the pack needs her." 

I didn't know why he was saying all these to me all of a sudden. After Ven's rejection, he remained silent for so many days, the whole two weeks.

"Are you asking me to go and find her in the human world?"

That's all I could think about. No elements helped me out with her. I didn't know why that was the first time they declined to help me with something so serious.

Alpha Arthur took a good look at me. Maybe he looked at me like that last time when he found a boy walking and crying on the bank of a river, rootless and helpless. Then suddenly with a smile, he said, "You have the blessing of the Moon Goddess. She will guide you for sure."

With a helpless sigh, I got ready for handling my work. After finishing training some pack members, I summoned myself to the human world. Set in the human world, my life was almost like theirs. Being surrounded by my guards, I run my businesses there. Traffic in the early morning wasn't that much, but I hated it. The pain all over my body made the situation worse. The car drove in front of the skyscraper of Ace Corporation where everything seemed frozen. All of the staff greeted me by standing and bowing their head. Why not? I was the CEO here.

I rarely came here to handle business. Abner and my assistant would handle them for me. Being an Alpha, I had a lot of things to look after, and of course, this business wasn't something I cared about. But this time I'm here to find Ven. Not because of me, because of my pack.

After reaching my office, I leaned against the couch feeling tired. That cherry and lavender scent of hers was still so faint. A frown of confusion crept up my forehead with dome droplets of sweat. The scene had to be intense here! It was the place she belonged to. But it was growing lighter day by day. Was I losing her? Did I harm my pack unknowingly? 

No, I couldn’t be harmful to them. I couldn't be like him.

The inner me was screaming and torn between confusion and frustration. Suddenly Abner barged into my office without even bothering to knock. And started his not-so-entertaining drama.

"Woah! Look at you, man. You are here resting all alone when I am having an urge to cry all over your mate. She's way more mysterious than Bermuda Triangles. I left no stone unturned, but she just vanished from the universe. Like Alpha, like Luna, both are annoying jerks." 

Gritting his teeth, he made a cute pout. As much as I wanted to get mad at him, his tired look stopped me in an instant. He was trying to find her for the last fourteen days, but still no result.

'I don't have any problem with calling you a jerk, but can you please punch him on my behalf for badmouthing my mate' 

Daniel groaned inwardly making me want to hit him so bad. Even though he was acting childish I knew he was feeling pain ten times intensely. Only because she was a human, he couldn't connect to her wolf. He already wanted to mark her and now helplessly roaming rejected. 

"You have some work?" 

"No, I only need to go and play hide and seek with your mate." His sarcastic reply made me sigh. Yeah, he had been doing this for so long.

"I don't understand if she's a human or not. Nowhere on the earth, I could trace her. She just got lost like camphor." Saying all these, he handed me some files to sign. Maybe he had had enough.

As long as Abner went out with a short bow, Daniel started to growl into frustration looking at me. His all-serious face made me frown. That meant something big was going on, something really horrible. 

'What's wrong?' I asked confused. But all on a sudden I feel my whole body jerked with burning sensations, my breath ragged and a stinging pain was hovering over me.

'Ricin! It's Ricin again!' Daniel screamed through greeted teeth. Being an Alpha, not all kind of poisons had effect on me, but Ricin had. But whoever poisoned me knew it well, death wasn't an option for me. 

'The pack is in danger,' Daniel took control over me. No matter what the situation was, saving my pack was responsibility and he wasn't the one to think about himself. He started to run.

Then? It was all dark.