Longing For My Rejected Luna

Chapter 44

*****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.

go to the ends of the earth, move mountains

promise I was making to my father—the

boring into my eyes.

of here, I will have you both beheaded." The steel in my voice was enough to make them

your problem?!"

stench

why Jace would be a better Alpha. Women

careful what you say to my sister, Elder Grigshade." Jace's

turned to him. "Age regardless,

and your daughter's plans to give me a poisoned wine failed?!" This

might be big but he could never be stronger than me.

your father, you young insensitive

then?!" I sneered right

did. We waited for

attended the meeting?" Jace asked, confusion masking his

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

he was supposed go to. Ours was the second one." This silver-haired hulk of a living, breathing arrogance was saying things that

a

him of the meeting, but he said he was yet to go for the first one and was not sure if

said he would not be able to make it. That

to go." The

didn't even care.

him.

of

said it was an emergency and he would try to fix the meeting

Silence ensued.

questions that had no answers and the stench of the unknown smelled potently. Where had dad

was obvious now that he had been poisoned where he had

do we

you said he didn't make mention of where he was going to?" I asked

did he care to reach out