Damon.

　　" The elders hosted a meeting at the council hall, and you are expected to be there."

　　His voices were shaking in fear, looking at him, he averted my stares. What does the elder want me for right now? I really am not in the mood.

　　Deciding to hear them out, I stood up from the grassy floor, dash back to the pack, Kieran also initiated his wolf speed and dash after me .

　　Walking to my room, Kieran opens the door and I walk in, lock the door, pull off my clothes and drop it on the floor. I grunts out in pain and walks into the bathroom.

　　Walking out of the bathroom after taking a long cool bath which seems to refresh my brain a little. Pulling the bathroom open, I bring out a red tuxedo suit and a black jean with a black bow tie.

　　Wearing the clothes, I knot the bow tie and adjust it in a proper way, combing my hair in front of the mirror with my handsome look reflecting on the mirror.

　　An alpha has to look good even though that not my problem

　　Looking at myself with a last glance, I push the knob of the door and walk out of my room.

　　"Where are you leading to, Alpha?" Kieran asks as I step a foot out of my room.

　　"To the council hall."

　　Walking behind Kieran who takes the lead, I respond to the greetings of some members of the pack flashing them a nod.

　　Getting to the entrance door of the council hall, I breathe out and adjust the tie before walking into the hall.

　　Silent falls in the room immediately I step my feet into the council hall.

　　The elders stand up from their prospective seats and bow their heads acknowledging my presence as the Alpha. Nodding my head responding to their greetings, I sit on the front seat and face them with my hand on my chin, look at the elders and clear my throat.

　　"Good day Alpha, I know you must be surprised that we called for an emergency meeting, and we are sorry for that tho. There is something we had experienced in this pack which we don't want to happen again." the first and oldest elder said.

　　I looked at the elder with a questioning look and decided to question you even though I know the reason why they assembled for this meeting.

　　"I don't understand what really happened?"

　　The elders look at me with a glint of anger on his face. "You can't tell us you don't know what happened in the pack recently, or the recent attack of the trolls in the pack?" One of the elders asked.

　　"How were the trolls able to invade the pack even though there was a barrier? We need an explanation!" Another demanded.

　　If they know that isn't my problem.

　　"I must say I am deeply sorry for the loss of lifes in the pack, well what we don't understand is that the trolls didn't pass through the barrier but got their way into the pack through teleportation."

　　"How is that possible?"

　　"After my findings and investigation I discovered that the barrier wasn't broken and they can't get into the pack without breaking through the barrier, with my knowledge I think that they were able to get to the pack with the help of a witch."

　　"But I promised nothing of such would ever happen."

　　"Thanks for honoring our meeting, Alpha."

　　Nodding my head, I stand up from the chair, and walk out of the council room.

　　I look at the moon, I don't want to believe my mate is leaving me tomorrow.

　　Where is she going to leave? I have to do something about it.

　　I storm into my dressing room and pick out the first outfit I could find: a red T-shirt and dark pair of jeans. After I hurriedly put them on, I stepped out of the room to look for my beta, Kieran. After moving through the huge house once, I finally find him in the library huddled over a thick bound book. Typical. My beta is a huge need but he never lets anyone else know about this except my family and the gamma.

　　I move forward and plop into the leather chair opposite him, burying my head in my hands. Like I expected, he turns away from the book and looks at me with concern. "What's wrong, Damon?"

　　I shake my head and groan loudly. My head is so unclear and if I don't do something soon, it will explode. Why would she do something like this to me? After all my years of waiting and to think she made me fall in love with her voice, her hair, her body.

　　"Let's go out. I don't want to remain huddled up in the house," I answer him after some time and he looks at me with a quizzical expression. No doubt there's something he wants to say but instead he shakes his head once and leans forward.

　　"Is anything wrong with you? You don't look okay," he asks again but I push my chair back and stand up.

　　"Let's just go. I need to unwind myself and think." When I turn to face him again, he is looking at me with a sad expression and I instantly know what's wrong. He's way too engrossed in his book and doesn't want to leave it. At that, I sigh and pull his arm.

　　"We'll be back in a while and then you can finish your precious book. I know a place, let's go to the club," I suggest and hesitatingly, he nods and shrugs into his suit jacket. I nearly shake my head at his outfit. Kieran is always on a suit jacket no matter the occasion and sometimes it makes him look like the Alpha, not me who is always casually dressed.

　　Still, I wave the thought away from my mind and together we move outside the pack house and into the car waiting for us. All this time, my beta is still looking at me with a curious expression but I ignore it. How am I supposed to tell him that Carlisle rejected me? For no good reason.

　　As the car speeds further away from our pack, Kieran tries to engage me in discussion about the book he was reading. I respond earnestly to him for some time but eventually, the car fills up with our silence as he realizes my mind is occupied. I turn away from him and look outside the window, where rows of trees are moving past in such a blurred motion that it almost makes me sick. But that is not the reason I feel my stomach weaving and my heart throbbing.

　　My mate just rejected me. The same person I was already planning to make my queen and finally be able to stay on the same bed with her. Listen to her stories. Make her laugh with delight. Goodness, bury my dick in her moist folds. At that thought, my body flushed with heat and I subtly adjusted myself to prevent my beta beside me knowing what I was thinking about.

　　Soon we get to the club where a party is already in full swing. I quickly step out of the vehicle and ask one of the bouncers standing outside the door about the event going on. He quickly tells me that there is a bachelor party going on inside and in curiosity, he asks if I still want to go in. At that point, Kieran comes and whispers to me,

　　"Let's just go to another club. This one is already busy." I look at him and shake my head instantly. Even though the club isn't supposed to be packed so early in the evening and I actually wanted peace and quiet with alcohol, maybe this isn't such a bad idea. It seems like a good way to forget about my problems and just have fun.

　　"Get us some pass tickets," I say to the bouncer and he nods once before disappearing into a side room. Beside me, my beta shakes his head but I ignore him. Soon, our tickets are handed to us and we move into the club. The first thing that greeted my ear was the level of noise emanating from one part of the place.

　　I swivel my head to face that way and smile at the scene. Some men are standing and gathered around another man, who I presume to be the groom. He is blindfolded and some girls are giving him lap dances while his friends are cheering on. It looks like fun, but I look away from them and instead move to the bar.

　　As I approach the bartender, he looks up at me first and lifts his hand up in a wave until my beta and I take our seats. The guy grins at me and begins to wipe off glasses before he brings out my regular bottle of whiskey but I shake my head. "A stronger one for today," I simply announce and his eyes go wide for a millisecond before he nods and moves away.

　　"Damon, what's wrong with you? The one you take is already strong enough, yet you want something more. Is there something you're not telling me?"

　　I want to nod my head at his question, because definitely there is something I'm not telling him. But how can I do that? I can't even still fathom it myself. I'm still struggling to understand what I did wrong, except for being caring about her well-being just like any wolf mate would. Or maybe, it is because I'm not a fae.