One month has turned to two. Ace has never stopped from searching for his mate.
And when he saw he couldn’t, she was nowhere to be found, he returned back home.
Everyone were so happy to welcome the long gone alpha back home safe and sound.
His leave had only caused sleepless nights to everyone. Though intruders weren’t a problem to the Shape-shifters, they have all it takes to win over their enemies.
But that wasn’t the problem. The problem was, who knew if he was safe or… dead.
Even Luna Lunara wasn’t at rest. She was bothered than anyone else. She didn’t see her son for two good months.
Alpha Ace’s face wore the saddest look anyone has ever seen. He didn’t say a word, not even to his royal councils.
As they all came to know what the problem was, with anger he yelled at all of them.
” I want everyone out! Now!!” He stormed. Quickly, without haste, they left him alone.
” Ace…” Said his mother in a soft voice.
” Even you mother. Please.” He said calmly.
While she left him, she would turn back to look at him but had turned, that he was backing her.
He locked himself in his room for days, almost closed to a week. He couldn’t sense the presence of his mate, not even her scent.
Lunara was troubled and concerned for her son. He deprived eating and drinking anything. Worst still, he wouldn’t open the door for anyone.
So together, the councils went to consult her for she was the only one who can change his mind and talk to him in a way no one knows.
Maybe that’s because she is his mother. Or… the fact that she was the only one who can calm him down.
She knocked on his door, he didn’t say a word. And she knock again, ” Ace it’s me, your mother.” He still didn’t say a word to her.
” Ace, I know you can hear me. And I know how troubled you are for your mate, we all are. Your safety is our concern. Look, your people needs you more than they need me. You are their alpha, you have to come back to them. ”
” You don’t understand, do you? ” He chuckled. ” You know how long it took me to find my mate. You saw how many years I waited patiently to mark her. And now I have, she’s gone.
Do you know how it feels living alone without anyone to call my own? Without the one person who is able to give me a heir to my throne?” He scoffed. ” It’s not that simple mother, I know my people needs me, but I need my mate too. ”
” Ace, ” she said in a shaky voice. ” can you please just open the door? ”
Ace walked to the door, he opens it, staring at his weeping mother.
” Mother… I didn’t mean to make you cry.” He apologized.
She ignored him, making her way into his room. He shuts the door, turning to look at her.
” Do you how much pains you caused me. You left for two months, ” she demonstrated with her first and middle fingers. ” No calls, no text… nothing!! You just left.
And now you’re back, you decided to lock yourself for days in your room like it was some kind of heaven of comfort?! ” She yelled angrily.
” You kept everyone in sleepless nights, fear and concern for their alpha and yet… yet… yet.. ” she got chocked by the tears which kept streaming out of her eyes.
” I missed you, Ace. Why would you ever think of hurting me?” She wept bitterly and he went to hug her, tight to himself.
” I wouldn’t think of hurting you mother. You mean a lot to me in this world, why would I want to see you cry just because of me? ” He said, tapping her back gently.
” Then come back, think like your father. Be a man like he was. Though I left him, it never made him stop being the alpha he was. It never made him leave his people so long because he knew how to find his mate. He knew how to find me. He always does.
You just have to know that. You don’t have to wander around the world, ” she breaks the hug, looking deep into his eyes. ” You don’t have to go about mountains and hills and valleys or whatsoever. You just have to think. Feel the scent of the one you seek. She isn’t far, they are never far from you.
You will surely find this one person you desire to find. It’s just so simple, you’re the one who gave her the mark, you find her with it. ”
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To Be Continued…
Have you seen a Luna so sweet like Lurana??