The Alpha's new Obsession

CHAPTER 8

DOUBT

GARTH

I am staring outside while waiting for the darkness to arrive. The blood moon that we are waiting for, I hope it will happen tonight so I can reject Ashina in front of my pack and her father's pack. To finish what is supposed to happen.

But while looking at the sunset, I doubt the news of the blood moon appearing any moment tonight. I puffed out some any moment tonight. I puffed out some air annoyingly at the thought that I couldn't prolong my pack's stay in this frost fang Growlers’ village.

We need to get back to our place, to our own village. The time I gave myself to pursue Ashina has ended, and the best decision I made with my pack's most trusted people; my beta, gamma, and delta; I need to follow it for the betterment and peacefulness between the two packs.

I sighed as I felt a sudden pain in my heart by thinking of my plan of rejecting Ashina. If I could have changed the rejection goal, I would have. But…. I can't.

Trion and the rest are right. They have a point. What's the reason I'm still chasing Ashina? If she wanted Charles, then let her have that omega. She chooses a useless one, and I should stop wanting her anymore! I should stop caring for her!

But f*****g truth, I can't deny it! I don't want to give her up now because of the incident earlier. When she asked me to mark her… take her.. I was tempted. Tempted to brand her and make her mine. Only my wounded pride refused her. It is more potent than our strong mate's call.

Then I recall some awful moments I had with her…and my eyes squinted while thinking about those times Ashina told me how she hated the trick of the moon goddess on us. The remorse she has for me… The contempt she kept showing afterward. She despised me as if I were someone carrying a disease I might pass to her. She's not as good as she looks. Her heart is corrupted.

I certainly have no idea why she disliked me so much before. And whatever might instantly occur that she's offering herself like some deranged one, I can't count her reasons anymore. No one could change a heart's wants in a matter of hours. A mate scent didn't persuade her two years ago; what must be her motives for switching her mind and deciding she wants me now? Motives…I know she really has.

“Still thinking of Ashina?” Trion asked me, which I had didn't detected standing now behind me.

“Yes.” No need to lie, I admit.

“You are considering her proposal now, aren't you?”

“No,” I responded firmly..

Trion smirked. I can see that he wasn't satisfied untill I rejected Ashina in the blood moon ceremony.

“Want me to investigate again? This time, not with Charles but with that supposed ‘mate’ of yours.”

“What to investigate? I have no intention to marry her.”

“But that's not what I can see from you.”

“f**k off, Trion!” I made a low guttural sound to warn Trion I didn't like what I was hearing from him. I have no time to embellish what I have in my heart lust to convince him and the rest.

“Easy…. No need to be mad. I am just stating what I can see from watching you.”

I didn't react to that. No matter what I will say, the reason for Ashina coming here an hour ago created suspicion among them regarding my decision. But what I said needs to be done. No need to create a dispute about it.

“We trust you to do what's the best for our pack. If you think Ashina could be the best Luna we could have, then be her. Mark her. Marry her.”

“I am tempted to mark her earlier, I confess. But I am not that stupid, no matter what you think. I can't trust her anymore. I don't want to waste my time pursuing someone who loathes me from the beginning because she knows I am the one she should be mated with.”

“But what if she really changed her mind now?” Trion asked with uncertainty. He has a double opinion of what might have transpired to Ashina's instant change of mind.

“And what if that's another ploy for her to humiliate me?” I asked.

Trion just shrugged his shoulders with a grin. “Assuming that too. But you are our alpha. You are the leader of our pack, and every decision of yours, we follow.”

I clicked my tongue and set it in the right corner of my mouth. I puffed out some air exasperatedly.

“I need to think of the future of our pack. Marking a mate who doesn't like me means a catastrophe she will soon bring to us.”

“But rejecting her could weaken both of you.”

“That has a remedy. The pain rejection we could both have will pass but her wicked plans should stop and cannot be brought to our pack.”

Trion grinned. “And that makes you our great alpha! You never think of the nature lust call provoked by your wolf. You are thinking about what is right for all of us.”

I didn't reply to that, but Trion is right. I am a selfless one. I can do everything in the interest of everyone and not think to prioritise my self wants.

“Do you think the blood moon will appear tonight?” Trion questioned and looked at the stay, too. Now stars are starting to emerge. “Whom that information about the blood moon comes from?”

“Jenella. Ashina's cousin.”

“Do you believe her? For I remember what the necromancer of our pack told us, that the blood moon will appear on the next full moon. Next full moon, Garth.”

I breathed in heavily. I remember that too.

“I don't know. I was told merely that the blood moon will appear this month by Jenella. Particularly tonight

She said that they would never be wronged with their blood moon calendar, but..” I trailed my words for disbelieving the information too, “but I noticed that the full moon already commenced showing last night; I can't see the possibility it will change to a blood moon.”

“Then my speculation is right, Jenella is lying?”

“Or presumably, she was just misinformed too.” I still give you the benefit of the doubt.

“I don't trust Jenella, Garth. Her empathy is superficial.”

“Knight doesn't trust Jenella too.” knight is my inner wolf. My dedicated and robust wolf. He went wild a while ago as Ashina appeared. He wanted to be mated with Ashina's wolf, but I don't give him a chance, and now he is probably sleeping because I can't hear him talking to me.

“Then better believe knight from the first time he warned you, Garth. Our wolf can discern evil more than we could. You know it better than anyone.”