Alpha Bane''s POV


    Iy on my bed, feeling so sick. I touched my head from time to time, just to be sure that my wound had indeed healed as I was still shocked at how I could still be in such pain when my wound was healed on the outside.


    It was something that I had never experienced in my life. It looked so new to me and I wished I didn''t have to experience it. I never imagined at any point that I''d be unable to stand and move around the way I wanted to. I never pictured myself confined to my bed for any reason.


    Indeed, I had always thought that it was only old men who had the right to be bedridden. In my mind, I tagged any young man who was bedridden as a weakling who couldn''t muster up the strength needed to stand up and go about his business. Never did I imagine that I''d be that man. I''d have used less harsh words if I did.


    My instinct told me to keep the news between myself and just a few people. I did just that. It was only my father, my Beta and a few close guards of mine that knew of my condition and I hoped to keep it that way. I didn''t want any unnecessary drama or gossip spreading all around the pce about the Alpha who can''t stand.


    News like that was capable of making my subordinates look down on me and that is what I didn''t want. Whenever the fear factor got removed from a leader, a lot of things were bound to go wrong. It was a very dangerous game in any Pack, especially one like mine which had a lot of crises already due to all that was happening. I was wise enough to understand what I was trying to avoid.


    On the day that I realised that the pain was too much and wasn''t something that could let me move around as I used to, I called in my guard and asked him to call in two other trusted guards...


    "I need you to go to my father and Donald and tell them that I need them very quickly," I said to them before giving them an instruction concerning how they should handle the news. "I don''t want to hear a word about this in the mouth of anyone in this Pack. If I find out that any one of you decided to tell someone else who isn''t here about my condition, you''ll be in very big trouble."


    They nodded and left the room to do as they were told and they had kept their word to me and weren''t looking to break it. They were the men that I could trust and I trusted them wholly because for many years, they had proven themselves to be worthy of that trust.


    I heard a knock on my door and I wondered who it was that wanted to see me. It hadn''t been so long since I finished speaking with my dad and I wasn''t expecting anyone.


    The door was opened and I stared at the door intently to see who it was. It was Donald and he walked in with caution, turning to look right and left before shutting the door behind him.


    As he walked in, I adjusted a bit so that I would not only hear him clearly but also be able tomunicate effectively. "My Alpha," he began to say. "I bring news that the Alpha and Luna of the Silver Moon Pack have arrived from their Pack as they had said. I heard they''re in the throne room as we speak."


    "I hope they arrived safely, Donald?" I asked, trying to be sure that there was no problem at all. My condition was already a huge burden to me. I didn''t want any other burden to be added to that.


    "Yes, they did, my Alpha," he replied, much to my relief. "They did. They also said that they''d be leaving tomorrow."


    "So soon?"


    "Yes... They''ll also likely leave with both Sophia and Aurora."


    As soon as I heard that, I was greatly pained as I knew I was going to lose Aurora, probably forever. I didn''t want her to leave. I''d have given anything to see her stay but I knew it wasn''t in my ce to get her to stay in my Pack. She had to want it and from every indication, I felt she wouldn''t.


    "Did Aurora ever ask about me?" I asked Donald, hoping that she must have mentioned my name to him or any of my guards, even though she wasn''t happy with me. I knew we weren''t cool but I didn''t think she hated me. She was probably just acting out of anger due to the way I treated her in the past.


    "No, my Alpha," he replied, bowing his head a bit and looking to the floor. "She didn''t say anything at all to me."


    I was crushed the more. It was one of the saddest things I had ever experienced; having to know that someone I cared so much about didn''t give ten cents about


    me.


    I had been away for a few days and seeing that it was unlike me to do that, she was supposed to have reached out somehow. Differences or not, I thought she still cared about me and would have been concerned about me. I guess I was wrong. Perhaps, she had written me offpletely, while I was there, thinking there was still a chance for us both.


    Nevertheless, I tried to act cool as I didn''t want to give Donald the impression that I wanted so badly to have her around. I didn''t want him going around and trying to help me with her. I just wanted to bear the pain alone.


    "I think that you should try talking to Princess Aurora again. It could help you fix whatever issues you have with her," Donald suggested but I didn''t give it so much thought. I had my reasons.


    "I have already tried talking to her," I sighed. "She''s still angry about all the things that I did to her. She kept mentioning it over and over again, ring up each time as it seemed like the memories made the situation worse. So I think it''ll be very unwise for me to talk to her concerning these matters."


    "Have you tried exining things to her very calmly?"


    "I have, man. She doesn''t want to say anything to me, nor does she even want to hear me out. Each time I try to exin myself, she just finds a way to cut me short or just walk away so that I wouldn''t get that chance. It''s almost as if doing that gave her a lot of delight and I don''t know exactly what to do."


    "Then it might be that you''re not the right person to get the job done," Donald said with a wry smile on his phone.


    "What do you mean?" I asked, very curious to know exactly what he was driving at. I needed to get the solution to my problems and I did think that he might have the answers that I needed.


    "Just give me the go-ahead and you''ll be d you did," Donald assured me. "Allow me to talk to Aurora about the illness. Perhaps, it could change her mind and cause her to stay in the Pack."


    "No, don''t do that, Donald," I voiced to my Beta who looked keen on carrying out the n on my behalf. "I don''t want to bother Aurora. It''ll be best if she just leaves the Pack without seeing me, as setting my eyes on her would make me very hurt and I don''t want that."


    Dn nodded but from his reaction, I could tell that he wasn''t being entirely honest with that nod. He just wanted to say it so I would calm down, while he goes to break the news to Aurora and I didn''t want that.


    If Aurora was to stay back in my Pack, I wanted it to be because she wanted to and not because she was forced to do so due to my condition. It was her love that I craved and not her pity. I hated being pitied by anyone. The situation didn''t change that.


    "Don''t try anything funny, Donald," I said to him, just to make sure that he didn''t disobey my instructions. The fact that I wasn''t so strong physically didn''t mean that I was going to let him do as he liked. I was his Alpha and he had to obey my every instruction.


    "Don''t tell her anything concerning my ill health for any reason. It''s not a plea, Donald. It''s an instruction. I do hope you understand what that means."


    "I won''t tell her. I promise."


    With that, he left the room and I was left all by myself. I touched my neck and noticed that my temperature wasn''t hot any longer. The fever that had persisted for a very long time was finally gone too. It was a thing of joy.


    I stared dreamily at the ceiling for a while before finally shutting my eyes to sleep. It was time.