Mystery of the Rejected Alpha ✔

Chapter Sixty-Eight

Alina

I felt my world spin right in front of my eyes. I couldn't believe we found him. Out of all the places and possible circumstances, we found our Alpha at the Graveyard of Doom, and he was standing right in front of us with a smug on his face.

"Where the fuck have you been all this time?" Neil growled at Luke.

Luke shrugged and laughed.

"Why are you fucking laughing at us? You better answer our questions." Neil shouted, his voice blaring through the isolated area. "We were so worried."

"Calm down, tiger." Luke smiled once again. He looked rather amused, enlightened at the sight of the anxiety and frustration he had caused us.

Neil cursed him.

I stood quietly, looking at Luke. His hair was longer than before, pushed back. His face had no creases, no guilt, just pure amusement. It seemed like he was enjoying the look of distress on our faces.

"I was looking for you, sweet cheeks." He said looking at me.

I furrowed my eyebrows at his tone. Luke never called me that before.

"Where were you, Luke?" Ron asked.

"I found another abandoned wolf inside the territory," Luke mumbled, almost inaudibly, looking at us.

"Don't lie, Alpha," Ron said.

Luke flashed Ron a deadly glare for a second before showing his pearly white teeth. "Why would I lie, doctor?"

"I don't have the answer to that. I do know you are not being honest either." Ron stated, eyeing him from head to toe.

Luke chuckled, running his fingers through his hair he spoke, "How interesting. I like how you all have been running your imaginations wild."

"You have no right to say that after you ran away, not once but twice." Neil pointed out. "You betrayed us, Luke."

"Don't forget I am still the Alpha."

"Are you really our Alpha?" Ron asked.

"Do you have any doubt?" Luke frowned at that question.

The smug he had on his face disappeared as he looked at Ron.

"I do actually."

Luke laughed again and shook his head.

There was an awkward pause right after. No one spoke, just kept looking at each other.

"I see your bruises haven't healed yet." Ron pointed out.

I looked at his forearm, the bruises and burns he had still looked exactly the same as the day he walked into the pack, injured. The same day when I offered to apply for herbal medicine on his wounds which infuriated him further. He nearly kicked me out of his room.

"Oh, these are just new."

Ron frowned, folding his arms he asked, "Can you tell us what exactly happened?"

Luke had an uncertain expression on his face. I could tell he was trying to comprehend his sentence and please all of us with his answers. The suspense that he had built over the last few months by constantly disappearing on us, was still left unresolved.

"I saw an abandoned wolf..." He trailed off, scratching his forearm.

There was another pause.

I knew he was hiding something. Luke had always been the talkative type. He always used to stick around Neil and I, trying to feed us his awful green dishes. His cheerful and happy demeanour got lost somewhere between the smug and the blank gaze he held towards us.