The Alpha's Unwanted Luna (by Miss L) novel Chapter 63

Chapter 63 

40 – Ryker 

I grab her arm as she moves away from us. “What are you talking about? What’s wrong with her?” What other weakness could she possibly have? Naturally, when I need answers, my sister ignores me, so the rest of Jeremiah’s team leaves me guessing too. They clearly care more about her feelings than my anger. 

“You maybe should have talked to her before claiming and embarrassing her in front of her friends and family like an alpha–hole.” Rayna pulls her arm from my grasp and I just stare at her as she goes. 

What the hell just happened? Josh pats me on the shoulder as Jeremiah reaches out and shakes my hand. 

“It’ll be okay, just give Rayna a bit to calm Ken down. I guess congrats are in order, and maybe good luck.” He winces. “My mom is going to lose her mind when she finds out.” He chuckles under his breath then follows my sister in the house. 

“We’ll show you where you and your guys are staying.” Ben walks up to us with the delta, I think his name is Tommy. Ben is smart enough to look me in the eye, but not hold it long enough to be challenging. He’s not weak or a hot head, I can see why Kennedy would gravitate towards him, which makes my wolf grumble his annoyance at the beta. 

“At least she didn’t choose to spend her time with some pansy ass.” I grumble back at him. 

“She shouldn’t be spending any time with anyone but us.” He quips back. 

“You do understand how stupid that sounds considering how many women we have entertained in just the last month alone.” 

“You have never bedded any of them. We have been saving that for our mate. She should have the same respect.” 

“You don’t know what her plans were.” I’m trying to shut down that train of thought. I just can’t, no matter how logical it is. “She’s human, there was never any reason for her to think she had a mate, settle down. Rayna is right, we have to tread carefully with her. We don’t know anything about her. She wasn’t raised the same way we were.‘ 

Neither of us are going to sleep and we will have to pretend like we are alive and awake tomorrow or my sister will kill me. It won’t be the first time we’ve had a sleepless night. It’s just never been over a woman. 

I tried everything. Doing a thousand push–ups, a hot shower, reading, pacing, laying on my bed staring at the ceiling, even sitting by the door where her scent was the strongest like a creeper. Nothing was going to calm my wolf enough to let us rest, but there is no way in hell I was walking out of this room to go to her after what she said downstairs. Rayna is right and I need to talk to her, but not like this. We both need to be calm and come up with a plan that works. Which means we have to wait until after this ceremony is over. It’s going to be the longest twenty four hours of my life. 

The worst part was hearing her scream. I knew it was her, I could feel the panic thick in the air. It made my blood run cold, I left it to Bennet even though it physically hurt to not go to her. I thought my wolf was going to tear through the door, but we couldn’t go to her. I don’t know what it was, I just had a feeling we would not be welcome. I did however stand at my door listening to Jeremiah and Rayna talking in the hallway, it must have been to Bennet, about nightmares and some kind of trauma. What did the Moon Goddess give me? She’s a frail, weak, human who has been traumatized so much that she has nightmares as an adult. She’ll never be ready to be my Luna. 

A surge of anger rolls through me again. My wolf and I are both angry, but for different reasons. He thinks we should go to her, just accept her, that she was made for us, she needs us. He’s angry at my determination to keep her away. 

I feel like I have been tricked somehow. I have been waiting for years for a woman who was, at the very least, strong enough to lead beside me and this is what I was given. Like the Moon Goddess doesn’t want me to have a real mate. What did I do to deserve this?