Chasing the rejected Luna novel Chapter 19

Sophia 

I heard Alpha Ryven’s sister suck in a breath. And I knew there would never be peace in the house as long as I was there. Daring to look at her face, I took a peak at it and saw it was as dark as a thunderstorm. 

“What?!” She scoffed and glared down at me. “I’ll have to leave for her? You’re not being serious, are you?” he asked while she crossed her hand across her chest. I could feel her anger coming out in waves. I didn't know the kind of misunderstanding that lay before them. But whatever it was, I was sure it wasn't something that could be settled in a day. 

I gulped and dropped my fork on the table which made Alpha Ryven look at me. I got up slowly and made my way to the way I came and asked a maid for directions to my room.  

She directed me there and I sat down in the bed with apprehension. I could not understand what was going on. And the more I thought about it, the more I felt I would lose my mind. Everything around me just seemed to have a way of going bad. 

It was probably due to the bad luck I had since I was born that made my parents die when I was small. I tried to tell myself multiple times that I was only a person with emotions who would feel that way. But doing that didn't help either. 

The door was opened from behind and Alpha Ryven walked in with a calm expression on his face. I didn't want to look him in the eyes so I avoided his gaze. He seemed to notice and came to sit in the bed with me, his scent making me dizzy. 

He has a masculine smell that wants me to run into his arms and he, in turn, will wrap it around me, telling me everything would be okay. And also telling me all my fears were in my head. However, nothing of that sort happened. 

With soft fingers, he turned my face to him so I was looking into his eyes. There was nothing in his eyes. I couldn't know what he was thinking because he guarded himself so well. It was unlike me who doesn't know how to guard her emotions. I hated it. I hated how everyone close to me knew exactly what I was thinking just like an open book. 

"I'm sorry you had to see that," he said while he pushed a stray hair away from my face. It made my heart lurch in my throat. It was the most romantic gesture I had ever experienced. And I wanted to tell myself not to get ahead of myself by falling for the big bad Alpha. But his gaze made me feel something deep within. Something dead comes to life. 

I guarded my heart against that. Against any form of heartbreak that would protect me from loving the wrong person. But soon, I had come to realize that loving someone wasn't part of one's ability to control. 

Your heart didn't give a warning when it wanted to love someone. You just find yourself yearning for the person, craving his touch and the way his eyes lock on yours. That was what I feared I would eventually come to crave from someone, from the wrong person who doesn't love me as much as I would come to love him. 

"You seem lost. Did something happen?" He asked me and scooted closer to me, bringing my hands to his rough ones. I smiled shyly and shook my head no at him. 

"Then tell me what's on your mind," he said and I looked up to find sincerity in his eyes. His eyes held something in them at that moment and before I could decipher what it was, it was gone just like the wind. 

"I have no idea why I'm here," I confessed to him and he smiled lovingly at me.

"Is that why you are stressing yourself out?" He chuckled which made a nice sound, making heat pool in my lower belly. He was so cute when he laughed. The way his eyes crinkled at the edges and the way his lips rode up in a way that made me want to watch him laugh. 

He continued staring into my eyes and began drawing light circles at the back of my hand. I couldn't deny it, he was making me fall for him. The subdued way he touched me in places I never knew I could be touched and feel loved by it.