Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 183: Missing her

Dominic knew that there was something wrong. He felt it in his bones the second he woke up. His wolf was pacing inside of him, agitated at something which in turn made him furious as well. The reason? It was unknown but Dominic just fucking knew that something was pissing him off.

"Are you alright?" Tao asked while looking at him carefully. His eyes were filled with wariness, and Dominic knew that it was because he could sense that Dominic was in a totally pissed-off mood. The words ’don’t come close’ were practically printed on his face.

"I am supposed to be," replied Dominic as he placed the documents in his hands. His fingers drummed on the surface of the table as, for the twentieth time, his eyes flashed wolf. The two of them were closely linked with one another, with his wolf pressed right against his surface. Thus, there were times when his emotions would align with his wolf when he was upset.

Tao frowned. "And what’s that supposed to mean?"

Dominic took a sharp breath before saying, "What I mean to say is that I have not the slightest bit of a clue why I am angry. But for some reason, I am." He ground his teeth, feeling another rush of anger.

Tao looked at him. For two minutes, he said nothing and stayed quiet, but then he placed the file in his hands on the table and said, "Dom, you need to snap out of this."

"Snap out of what?" Dominic gritted out with a snap.

"The withdrawal of the mating bond," Tao replied, and Dominic shut his mouth. He didn’t say another word and simply turned his gaze away from his beta. His eyes were now staring at the screen of his computer, but he knew that he was not reading a single word displayed on it. noveldrama

Because Dominic knew that this was not just the withdrawal of the mating bond. No, it was far from it. He was pissed not because he was going through some stupid metaphysical unwinding. No, it was because he was missing Inez. Her smell had long disappeared, and he could hardly remember how she sounded when she laughed because she hadn’t done it in years in front of him.

In the past, it had never bothered Dominic, but now that Inez was no longer here, he started to miss things that he had never taken to heart. These days, without Inez, they were not just hard; they were terrible. Without her by his side, Dominic started remembering, even hallucinating.

His eyes flickered as he closed them, and there she was, sitting right in front of him, her sixteen-year-old self glaring at him in annoyance.

"Dominic, are you listening to me?" she said to him. Her eyes were blazing with anger as Dominic leaned back in his chair. Twirling the pen in his hand, he looked at her and chuckled, "I am, but you sound B.O.R.I.N.G."

As soon as he finished speaking, her eyes blazed even harder. She picked up the notebook sitting on the table and hurled it at him. She said to him, "This is not funny. You are about to repeat your grade if you don’t pick up. I don’t think your father will like it, so unless you want to lose your position, you’d better learn how Moon Mist works. It is sure to come in the test."

Inez had always been the brainy type. All A+ every time she got her test papers back, while Dominic, on the other hand, had never cared about writing a damn thing on the paper whenever he got them. He was the alpha of the pack, with or without the damn education and the paper that would prove that he was educated.

However, she was right. His dad was upset with him and had already called him into the office to give him the ’talk’ on how studying properly was important. Thus, he knew that he needed to get at least a B on this test.

So, he picked up the book and started reading it again. But three minutes later, he was glaring at it. "Why do I even need to learn about this? What if the point of learning about this stupid herb and its stupid properties is to guide us on the paths of fae? Why should I learn this? Do you think I am someone who would go and look for faes?"

"Why would I want to look for those stupid long-eared fairies who like to pull pranks?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Inez tipped her head back and laughed. Her soft laugh echoed and burned in his mind, filling him up with a sense of relief and triumph as if he had won the war by making her laugh.

"Dominic!"

Dominic snapped out of the memory and looked up at Tao, who was staring at him with slight annoyance on his face. "What?"

"I should be the one asking this question, Dom." Tao released an agitated sigh. "How long are you going to act like this? Do you even know that the pack is falling apart while you waste your time drinking and swallowing your sorrows? Pack members are losing faith in you, and that’s not good."

"I don’t need you to start on it—" His mother was already doing a damn good job of reminding him that he needed to hold a rather steady head on his shoulders.

"Then fucking do something," Tao snapped, interrupting him. This was his first time talking back to Dominic, and Dominic would be lying if he said that it didn’t take him by surprise.

"Tao—"

"You knew what it meant, Dominic. You knew, and you pushed her away; you tormented and tortured her to the point that she was craving death, Dom! What else were you expecting? That she would become your toy willingly? Your dirty little secret? Where you can fuck her while parading to the pack how much you hate her?"