The Alpha's Rejected Luna

chapter : 26 The Voice Note

Kael's Apartment

Kael was lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling, his phone clutched tightly in his hand.

He had sent the voice note ten minutes ago, but Elra hadn't replied. Not even seen.

"What if she slept?" he whispered to himself. "What if she thinks I am being too clingy? What if she thinks I am forcing her?"

The cold and arrogant Kael, who never cared what anyone thought of him, who never waited for anyone's reply, was now overthinking like a lovesick teenager. He got up and walked to the balcony. The night was quiet, but his heart was noisy. He pressed his phone again, checking her last seen. Online.

"She is online," he said, his voice a little restless and possessive. He wanted to call her again, but he controlled himself. He didn't want to look desperate, even though he was. Desperate for just one word from her.

He came back inside and sat down again, running his hand through his damp hair. The image of her worried eyes from this evening was still fresh in his mind. He remembered how she had asked, "Did it hurt a lot?" No one had ever cared that much. No one had ever looked at him like that, with so much concern, with so much love.

He looked at the chat again. Still no reply. The two blue ticks were still not blue. He sighed and whispered to his phone, "Just say OK, Elra. Just one OK is enough for me. Please."

On the other side, Elra was standing in her kitchen, holding a mug of black coffee. She was about to take a sip when her mobile screen lit up in the living room.

She saw the name on the screen. Kael.

Her hand froze in the air. The sip of coffee stayed right there, halfway to her lips. She couldn't move.

Her fingers started to shrink, her hands started trembling a little. It wasn't far, it was just a voice note, but this happens. This always happens when you are in love and the first text from the person you love comes to your mobile. Your heart forgets how to beat normally. Your brain stops working.

She quickly put the coffee mug down on the kitchen counter, almost spilling it. Her heartbeat was so fast, so loud that she could hear it in her own ears. Thump. Thump. Thump. It was beating like a drum.

With shaking hands, she walked to the living room and picked up her phone. She tried to unlock it with her fingerprint, but her finger was sweaty and trembling. The phone didn't unlock. Her hand was shaking so much.

"Come on, come on," she whispered, frustrated and shy at the same time, biting her lower lip.

She tried again. Failed. The phone showed try again. On the third try, with great difficulty, she finally managed to scan her fingerprint. The screen opened.

There was one new message on w******p. A voice note from Kael. 0:04 seconds.

Her thumb hovered over the play button. She took a deep breath, her chest rising and falling fast, and pressed it, and put the phone close to her ear as if she didn't want anyone else in this world to hear it. As if it was a secret only for her.

Kael's deep, soft, sleepy, husky voice came. That voice that made her knees weak.

"Elra... tomorrow at 8 pm, there is a birthday party at my apartment. Come."

That was it. Just one small line. Seven words. But for Elra, it felt like the whole world had stopped spinning. Her breath stopped.

She didn't reply immediately. Instead, she played it again. And again. And again.

Each time she heard his voice saying her name, "Elra," a shiver ran down her spine. His voice was so possessive, so warm, so commanding. She could feel him through the phone. She could feel his breath.

She sat down on the floor itself, her back against the sofa, still holding the phone to her ear. Her face was completely red. A stupid, beautiful, uncontrollable smile was stuck on her lips. She was looking like a mad girl in love.

After listening to it for almost ten times, she finally decided to reply. Her fingers were still trembling. What should she write? A long paragraph? Should she tell him how much she wanted to come? Should she tell him she was waiting for his message?

No. She was too shy. Her heart was beating too fast to type anything long. Her mind was blank.

So with her still trembling hands, she typed just one word and sent it. Her finger hesitated for a second before pressing send.

"OK."

She sent it and threw her phone on the sofa as if the phone was on fire, as if she had done something very bold. She covered her face with both her hands and screamed silently into them, her legs kicking the floor.

"Elra, what did you do? Just OK? He will think you don't care! He will think you are rude!"

But her heartbeat was still fast. Very fast. It was not slowing down at all. Because tomorrow at 8 pm, she was going to see him again. Not in office, not in car, but in his apartment. Alone.

And this time, it was his birthday party. In his apartment. And she was the only one invited.

On the other side, Kael's phone buzzed. One word. OK. He smiled like an i***t and fell back on his bed, holding his phone to his chest.

His birthday had finally started.