The Rejected Luna Queen

Aurora's POV

I thought hard about what the chief chef said to me. It sounded so believable but I also knew that people were prone to seeing old tales and fables as the truth when they weren't. Besides, I hoped it wasn't true and I sought to consult Rose later about it.

She might have been overthinking the whole thing. Well, I did think she was to a large extent. As much as she was trying to help, feeding me with the wrong information wasn't the best way to achieve that.

"I think you may have put too much thought into this, ma'am," I finally said to her, expressing my skepticism about the whole story as much as I could. "You're talking about dark magic here. I know that I'm quite young, but I've never seen or heard of anyone who practices this evil."

Her eyes dimmed a little; Mrs Elizabeth, as I spoke in opposition to what she had said. The look of enthusiasm wasn't there anymore and it gave me the impression that I shouldn't have said what I said.

She looked quite a bit a angry that I'd called her theories trash, or baseless but yet I had to finish what I had started.

"Besides..." I continued, taking my gaze away from her as I tried to avoid eye contact. "Princess Sophia is the daughter of the Alpha and there's nothing between us. There's absolutely no way she could have known that he was my mate. No way at all. So why would my mother want to perform dark magic on her behalf so she could win someone over, whom she doesn't even know is my mate? It makes little sense."

"Most things that happen to us all make very little sense, Aurora. The older we get, the more we see these things clearly."

"The princess has her wolf, doesn't she? Her wolf won't let her be mated with someone who isn't her mate."

A small sad smile appeared on Mrs Elizabeth's face again, as she then said softly, "Aurora, I know that a part of you wants to believe what I'm saying and that's because it's the truth. If it wasn't, then I wouldn't be talking about it with you. You're just being so stubborn because you want to hold onto a lie."

I sighed. She was right. I did think she was telling the truth but somehow, I just didn't want to believe it. If it turned out to be false, I'd look so stupid to everyone and myself. Everything was just so confusing.

"I don't know what to believe anymore, ma'am. I don't. At this point, I've been immersed in the ocean of confusion. I don't..."

"Calm down, Aurora. Please, relax." She drew me close to her and placed my head on her right shoulder, rubbing my arms with her left hand. "It'll all be alright my dear. I want you to know that okay?"

It seemed like the more she consoled me, the more I felt the need to lament. Having someone who cared about my feelings was already overwhelming on its

own.

"I'm not telling you all these so that you'll despise your mother. Far from it. I'm only saying it because it's the truth.

As I continued to sob, closing my eyes and burrowing into the hug of this woman who seemed to be my comforter, I heard a scuffle from behind and instantly we broke apart from the embrace.

Turning around to see who's come in, I saw my mother walking into the kitchen with a straight face, and a rather strange and somewhat suspicious look.

"Mother..." I yelped startled to see her and slapping a smile on my face and sniffing back my tears I greeted, "Good day, mom."

I took some steps towards her, trying to get her to say something but she just shot me a disgusting look that had me freezing in my steps, and she also said nothing in reply to my greeting.

Like shards of glass piercing in my skin, her reaction hurt and whilst I stared at her, watching her take some things from the kitchen cabinet I couldn't help but wonder and think back to some of the things Mrs Elizabeth had just told me.

My mother hated me so much, what if she'd done stuffs just to make my life more miserable?

What if she'd stolen my mask and really given it to Princess Sophia?

Princess Sophia's POVnoveldrama

Staring at myself in the mirror, I loved the woman I had become. Thoughts of Alex kept running through my mind as I wished he was there with me. He wasn't. Well, physically, he wasn't. But he was there in my mind and I couldn't get him off, nor did I want to do that.

I smiled so hard at the thought of him. I loved the look of disappointment on the face of that fool. How could she have thought that she deserved such a man? I was the princess of the Silver Moon Pack. Royalty deserved nothing else but royalty.

"Knock knock."

"You can come in," I said, as soon as I heard a knock on my door. Two knocks actually and there was only one person who knocked that way.

Mrs Scott walked in with a smile on her face as she approached me. I loved to see her in a gleeful mood but something was off. Yeah, she was smiling but I could sense that there was a problem.

"Hey, Sweetie. How are you doing?" She asked, stretching forward her hands toward me. I reached out and grabbed her hands too, as she drew me in and pecked me on my cheeks; one and then, the other.

"What seems to be the problem?" I asked, eager to get to the root of the matter. Mrs Scott never failed to tell me anything that happened in and around the palace. We had no secrets between us. She was the best person I could have ever asked for and only we knew the reason why.

"Well, I came bearing news and not-so-nice ones," she replied, letting go of my hands and scratching her hair with her left hand as she spoke.

"Tell me about it."

"As I headed to the kitchen to get something, I overheard Aurora and Mrs Elizabeth talking about Aurora's missing mask and the fact that Alex chose you and not her. She said something about a magic procedure but I couldn't hear that very clearly. I think she might be aware of our little secret and may want to poison Aurora's mind, which in all honesty, is already poisoned by folly. I thought..."

I couldn't bear to hear all she had to say. I hated Aurora with all of my heart. Honestly, I'd harbored a few thoughts about killing her in the past that I wasn't so proud of. She was too ugly to look at and I couldn't stand her presence in the palace one bit. How dare she and that useless maid talk about me in the palace? "Aurora, that moron! It's high time that I dealt decisively with that girl. She goes around to badmouth me behind my back, hoping that I wouldn't notice. Does she think I'm dumb?"

I was enraged. I could feel sweat gradually making its way to the surface of my palms. She had indeed bitten more than she could chew.

"You have to be cautious about those too, Princess. They can't be trusted at all. If

I heard them talk about all those, who knows what else they might know?"

"That's not a problem, Mrs Scott. I'll handle this myself. I'll make sure to deal mercilessly with that gossiping chef. By the time I'll be done with her, she'd lose the ability to speak."

I couldn't tell if Mrs Scott knew that I meant every word that I spoke to her but I did. I wasn't about to let those two fools ruin all of my plans. I had to do something about it very quickly.

"Take care, honey," she said, as she huffed and walked away from the room.