Longing For My Rejected Luna

*****Erika's POV*****

"Why would you send your guard to come drag my daughter out of my house like a common criminal?!" The man with silver hair and an imposing frame stood before me, his eyes shone with disappointment and anger.

I stared up into his face, looking very small next to his big body. "Mind your tongue, Elder Grigshade. I might be small but I am still the Alpha here." I say with a small smile.

"Not yet, young woman. You have to make it official."

"And I will, official or not, I am the next Alpha in line and your daughter is a suspect in my case."

"Father, please tell Your Highness to let me go." She cried.

"Shut up!" I ordered her to spite her father. Everyone knew the man to be filled with pride. He was an arrogant man just because he knew he had the wealth.

"Don't shun her that way." He warned.

"Or?" I crooked a brow challengingly.

"I knew you when you were just a newborn. Have some respect!" His tone was laced with frustration and annoyance.

"I will not respect anyone." I gritted my teeth, trying to control my fury. "Because none of you respected my father when you all ganged up to poison him."

I had no evidence to back up that claim but dad had gone for a meeting that day with the Elders just as he'd told me.

"Watch what you say, Erika! Don't bring upon yourself what you can not handle!" He wagged a warning finger before.

"One, never wag a finger at any member of the royal family else you'll pay dearly for it. Two, I will do whatever it takes to find my father's bad wisher or wishers, Even if it means bringing down the entire Fangoria, I will never stop." I stepped forward, looking him dead in eye. "And three, it is Your Highness to you."

"Are you in anyway threatening me?"

"Not a threat, Elder Grigshade. Just a warning. A simple but potent one." I stepped closer.

I didn't care who that person was, I was ready to stand up to anyone.

I would go to the ends of the earth, move mountains and kill anyone if I have to.

My father's enemies would not go scot free, that was a promise I was making to my father—the greatest Alpha Iron Claw had ever had.

He gritted his teeth, his gaze boring into my eyes. "Tasyra, let's go."

"Guards if you let Tasyra out of here, I will have you both beheaded." The steel in my voice was enough to make them know it was going to be their folly if they disobeyed.

"What is your problem?!" He seethed.

"Your arrogance, Elder. The stench of it is revolting."

"This is why Jace would be a better Alpha. Women do not understand power."

"Be careful what you say to my sister, Elder Grigshade." Jace's tone held slight warning.

He turned to him. "Age regardless, you're supposed to be the Alpha."

"Was that why you sent someone after my life? After you and your daughter's plans to give me a poisoned wine failed?!" This man was making me angry, I felt like punching his face to pieces.

He might be big but he could never be stronger than me. Never!

"None of the Elders poisoned your father, you young insensitive lass." He sneered in my face.

"Who poisoned him then?!" I sneered right back.

"Your father never came to the meeting, alright. He never did. We waited for him. Elder Langton called him and he told us something came up."

"Wait, you mean to say he never attended the meeting?" Jace asked, confusion masking his expression.

I was feeling confused too. Dad had told me he was going for two meetings. "What about the second one? The second meeting."

"That was the first one he was supposed go to. Ours was the second one." This silver-haired hulk of a living, breathing arrogance was saying things that I was not understanding.

"Supposed to?" From a bewildered Jace again.

"Yes. Elder Langton called him and put it on loudspeaker, we reminded him of the meeting, but he said he was yet to go for the first one and was not sure if he would even go.

When asked of the second one, he said he would not be able to make it. That was when he said he had

somewhere else to go." The mamet?

explained, he eyed me in annoyance. I didn't even care. He was not leaving here until I was done with

him. noveldrama

"Did he tell you of this place?" I asked.

"No. He only said it was an emergency and he would try to fix the meeting for next time."

Silence ensued.

The atmosphere was heavy with more questions that had no answers and the stench of the unknown smelled potently. Where had dad gone to?

Who had he gone to see? It was obvious now that he had been poisoned where he had gone to.

But how do we find out this place?

"So you said he didn't make mention of where he was going to?" I asked him. "Yes." He snapped.

"And did he care to reach out again?" Jace inquired.

"No. And we did not either, especially after he had told us to adjourn the meeting

till next time." I frowned, he preferred to reply my brother than mine.

I was not jealous. No. But this man's high-handedness towards women being in power was going to stop, it was grating my nerves raw.

"Can I go with my daughter now?" He was talking to Jace.

"Why are you asking me, Elder Grigshade? I'm not the Alpha, ask my sister. Moreover, she was the one that requested for Tasyra not me." Jace pulled himself out of the equation Elder Grigshade was trying to put him in.

"Release my daughter." He faced me. The command in his tone irked me a great deal.

I pretended not to hear him. I turned to one of the guards.

"Do you know if my father had taken any guard with him that day?"

"I'm not sure, Your Highness. But I saw him talking to Fagel to clean the car he was going out with. Maybe you should ask Fagel, Your Highness. He might have driven him out that day."

"Go call me Fagel." I ordered.

"Yes, Your Highness." He left, leaving Tasyra with just one guard.

"Release my daughter." He stepped forward menacingly.

I proceeded to meet him halfway which I saw annoyed him, he thought I was

going to be scared and move back or stay rooted in fear.

"You do not talk to me with disrespect."

"You're a young girl. You do not know anything about power. Give it to Jace."

"Guard!" I called the one holding Tasyra.

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Lock her up. If not for anything, at least Elder Grigshade will learn respect is not gender-based."