Rejected by Alpha Dimitri

Noah

~•~

"One more shot of tequila please," I yelled loud enough for the bartender to hear over the loud music buzzing from the speaker.

He nodded his head and poured from the bottle into the tiny transparent cup. He passed it to me but as I was about to take it from the table, someone else beat me to it.

"Oh, bummer." I turned slowly to see it was Aiden. "Buzzkill," I said drunkenly and pushed him away.

"It's time to go home, you've had too much to drink." He lifted me from my chair and returned the shot to the bartender.

"I don't want to go back there." I pouted and caressed his face. I was about to ruffle his brunette hair when he stopped my hands.

I rolled my eyes and smiled at him. "When will you ever let me touch your hair?"

He ignored my question and tried lifting me from the stool. "It's been over two years already, you don't have to live a miserable life because of him."

"You don't have to keep on saving me," I responded with a normal voice. "I'm not living a miserable life, I'm having fun."

"Drowning yourself in alcohol almost every day isn't called having fun." He said, giving me a stern look. "You don't even hang out with your friends anymore."

A huge grin broke over my lips and I stared at him for a few seconds before responding. "Who needs friends when I have you?" I teased him and stood up from the chair.

He took a step back, watching to see if I was going to be able to walk on my own. The floor was blurry and I was a little bit dizzy, so I staggered as I was about to raise a foot. Aiden placed his arm over my waist to prevent me from falling.

"Thank you." I smiled at him and we both walked to his car.

Aiden always came to my rescue when I made unhinged decisions like going out alone in the dark to get drunk at a bar, without knowing how I would go back home.

I didn't have a car and he always had access to my location. He had forced me to share my location with him ever since I started getting myself drunk.

I just wanted to forget the pain.

The car ride back home was silent. I just rested my sleepy head on the window of the car admiring the beautiful town of Hawkins, while Aiden drove the car.

Normally, he would scold me and lecture me on how I was ruining my life. But I guess he was tired of repeating himself without seeing any changes.

I was glad he wasn't tired of me or gave up on me because I literally pushed everyone else away. No matter how hard I tried to push Aiden away, he still didn't leave me.

After a short drive, we finally arrived at the house. It was dark so the only people roaming around the compound were the guards.

Aiden parked the car and quickly walked to the door of the passenger's seat. He opened the door and helped me out of the car.

We both walked into the house and he led me to my room and tucked me into the bed. After he saw that I was settled, he turned off the lights and made his way out of the room.

I closed my eyes for a few minutes, trying to drift to sleep but I couldn't. My head was hurting and I was restless, so I decided to get out of bed.

My stomach rumbled and I remembered I had only had breakfast throughout the day. The sight of that girl made me lose my appetite.

Sliding into my fluffy crocs, I walked to the door and twisted the knob, making the wooden door swing open.

I planned on making myself an easy dish or eating leftovers from dinner. Passing through the corridors on my way to the stairs, I heard strange noises coming out of Dimitri's room.

His room wasn't really far from mine. I tiptoed to the door which was slightly opened. I knew it was a bad decision but my inquisitive mind made me do it.

"Whose pussy is this?" Dimitri's voice echoed from inside the room and my eyes glistened with tears.

"Dimitri's." Becky's shameful voice echoed after releasing breathless moans.

I took a step closer, so I would be able to see what was really happening. She was naked and on all fours, while he stood behind with his dick inside of her.

"Call me daddy." He said and spanked her buttocks.

"Daddy." She managed to say in between her hitched breath.

I knew I wasn't meant to be watching them. I was meant to be moving on. I was meant to accept my fate. My mate rejected me and settled for a random girl from another town.

She had come earlier in the day and we had crossed paths. I couldn't stand being in the same building with them, so I had to leave for the bar. Thankfully, she was in medical school and only visited during some weekends.

I needed to drown myself in alcohol to try and forget the pain. It had been almost two years since the rejection. I thought it would hurt less with time but it felt like the pain increased anytime I saw them together.

If they were going to be fucking loudly in a house full of people, at least they should have had the decency of closing the door.

Frustrated, I banged the door and ran downstairs to the kitchen. It wasn't the first time I had seen them having sex but I always got triggered.

I always imagined it to be me. Ever since I met Dimitri, I chose to keep my virginity until he chose me to be Luna. In my twenty years of living, I didn't have sex because I wanted it to be special with Dimitri, the love of my life. But he was fucking another girl in the same house I lived.

Wiping off my tears with the back of my hands, I made my way into the kitchen. The lights were already on so I guessed someone was already was already inside.

"Noah, were you crying?" Aiden asked as he saw me walk into the kitchen. Of course, it was him. He always had late-night snacks.

I sniffed back my tears. I didn't want to have that conversation with him. "No, I'm just hungry." I managed to say without breaking down.

"You saw my brother and Becky?" He asked, giving me a knowing look. "Right?" He opened his arms and I leaned into his broad and muscular chest. I cried my eyes out and he just patted my back.

Noah

~•~

"Why did he have to do that to me?" I finally spoke after crying for about ten minutes. Aiden was patient enough to wait for me until I was done.

"I don't know, Noah." He released me from his grip and gestured for me to sit on the counter. It was a little bit high, so I had to jump and I sat facing him.

"It's been over two years but I can't seem to get over it. Normal people would heal as time goes by but it's different with me." I kept on blabbing and blabbing while Aiden listened and watched quietly.

It wasn't appropriate talking to him about it but I couldn't help myself. Aiden had been in love with me even while I was in love with his brother.

I couldn't imagine myself not being with Dimitri so I never gave Aiden a chance. I was in love with his big brother and I didn't want things to get messy.

Aiden was always a good friend to me. He was like my best friend, the only friend I had apart from Katie. Even after ignoring all his romantic advances towards me, he was still a good person to me.

He was there for me when I cried throughout the night after being rejected by Dimitri. He didn't get any sleep because he wanted to be sure I was okay.

Dimitri, on the other hand, completely changed his attitude toward me. He used to be sweet and we would talk about our future together.

But one random day, he came back from one of his travels with his father and brought back a twenty-three-year-old blonde girl, who he claimed was the right woman for him. Suddenly, I was too young for him.

"I, Alpha Dimitri, reject you, Noah, as my mate." His cruel words always replayed in my head. My stomach churned whenever I remembered that night.

I thought it was a dream but a dream wouldn't last for over a year. I needed to be a strong girl and let go of him. I still had a tiny bit of hope that he would realize his mistakes and come back to me. But I needed to stop being delusional and face reality.

"Noah." Aiden snapped his fingers at me and interrupted me from my thoughts. I jerked back into reality and he held me so I wouldn't fall off the counter.

"I called your name severally, what were you thinking of?" He questioned curiously.

"Nothing." I shrugged and jumped off the counter. "I should get some sleep."

He gave me a doubtful look but didn't ask further questions. "I'll walk you to your room." He latched his hands against mine and we walked up the stairs.

Aiden's room was downstairs. He moved down because he didn't want to continue bumping into Dimitri and me while we were being all lovey-dovey. Although he didn't admit to it, I knew that was the reason.

When I first moved to the Lookwood's house, their father was nice enough to give me a room close to the boys.

He looked after me like I was one of his children because he was good friends with my father. My father died when I was twelve. He and some members of the crescent moon pack were attacked by hunters.

That was the worst day of my life. I didn't have anyone to look after me because my mother had abandoned me two months after I was born.

I still questioned myself every day why she decided to leave me, but I didn't get answers. I also didn't get answers from my dad. He claimed everything was okay between them and she had no reason to leave.

I had no relatives because my dad was a rouge who got accepted by the crescent moon pack. Dimitri's father was nice enough to accept him into his pack.

My dad was the best and he made sure I felt loved every day I spent with him. Luckily enough, even in the eight years of my living with Lockwood's, they also made me feel loved until Dimitri switched two years ago.

"Fucking assholes." I cursed under my breath as we walked past Dimitri's room. I could still hear sounds of them fucking even with the door closed. Didn't they have anything better to do?

Becky was doing it on purpose. She always made sure she was loud just to spite me. I never missed the smile on her face whenever Dimitri was being rude to me.

Aiden tried holding back his laughter when he heard my comment. But his attempt to do so failed as he broke into a loud laugh.

"What is wrong with you?" I nudged his shoulder and giggled. His laugh was contagious and I couldn't help but join.

I opened the door and walked into the room. Aiden walked in after me.

"Should I stay on the couch until you fall asleep?" He asked, slumping into the blue couch opposite my bed before I could even respond.

"You already made your decision." I rolled my eyes at him and covered myself with my blanket.

He threw a bag of chips at me and I caught it mid-air. I had even forgotten about the reason I had gone to the kitchen because I was angry.

"Thank you." I mouthed to him and tore the bag open.

Aiden was so sweet and thoughtful. He always did nice things for me. He was also the reason I still lived at their house.

When Dimitri betrayed me, he was the one who convinced me not to leave the house when I had packed most of my things to the gate.

I didn't even have anywhere to go, neither did I have money to take care of myself. I just planned to stay at Katie's house until her parents chased me away.

Thankfully, Aiden and his dad stopped me from leaving. Even if I had to go through the pain of seeing Dimitri with another girl, at least I had a place to call home.

"What are you doing on her bed?" I heard Dimitri's voice yell. My eyes fluttered open, I didn't know how I had fallen asleep the previous night.

Confused about who he was yelling at, I scratched my eyes and got in a sitting position. Aiden was sitting on the couch while Dimitri stood in front of him, casting him a curious angry look.

Noah

~•~

"Did you see him on my bed?" I broke the silence and all eyes turned to me. "Even if he was on my bed, how is that your business?" I gave him an irritated look.

"I'm your Alpha, talk to me with some respect."

"Yeah, right." I rolled my eyes and covered the blanket over my head. I didn't want to keep on looking at him.

Even though I hated him now, I was still attracted to him. He looked sexy with his brunette hair, hazel eyes, and broad shoulders.

He had the same features as Aiden. The only difference was his height and the color of Aiden's eyes. His eyes were blue like that of his mother while Dimitri had his father's eyes.

I never met their mother, I just saw pictures of her around the house. She was still alive but they didn't like talking about her.

According to Dimitri, she was in another town with two of their siblings. He didn't tell me the reason she didn't live with them in the same house.

"You still haven't answered my question," Dimitri spoke again in a condescending manner.

Aiden scoffed. "I don't have to answer to you." I wasn't seeing what was going on but from what I heard, one of them left the room, stamping his foot angrily.

I slowly took off the blanket off my face and my green eyes met with Dimitri's. "So what do I owe this early morning intrusion?" I asked, curious to know what he came to my room for.

He looked at me for some seconds and cleared his throat. "Why were you watching Becky and me yesterday?"

My face scrunched up into a frown. How did he know it was me who helped them close the door?

"I don't know what you're talking about." I lied and stood up from the bed. "You should leave now." I walked to the door and opened it, gesturing for him to leave.

He moved closer to me and slowly closed the door. "It's been over two years already, move on with your life. It's never going to be you." He said, putting his index under my chin, raising my face to look at me.

I closed my eyes tightly and swallowed hard. His words were like a sharp knife piercing through my heart. I tried my best to keep my emotions in check.

"So all those years meant nothing to you?" I raised an eyebrow at him. "Huh?" My voice was breaking, so I moved away from him and sat on the bed.

When I first moved in with them, Dimitri always stood up for me when other members of the pack tried bullying me and insulting me because I didn't have parents.

We spent so much time playing and watching TV together and I grew up to like him. Aiden also spent a lot of time with me but not as much as Dimitri.

On my 16th birthday, I had my first kiss from Dimitri. It wasn't really a kiss but it was the first time a boy had his lips on my forehead.

Our wolves sensed we were mates and he promised to choose me as his Luna after his father coronated him as the alpha.

I was so happy and I felt complete because I had always felt that finding my mate would be difficult. Unfortunately enough when he was finally crowned as Alpha, he chose to be with a random girl after all the promises he made to me.

"We've been through this before. I'm not going to have a conversation with you about it. Just move on and stop snooping around."

With that, he left the room and closed the door behind him. He didn't really care about me anymore and I needed to accept it.

I wiped off the tears that welled up in the corner of my eyes and covered my full body with the blanket.

"Noah, are you okay?" My wolf, Ava, asked me softly.

She knew I wasn't okay. I sniffed back my tears and took a deep breath before responding. "No, I'm not okay."

"I think it's time you moved on from him." She suggested. I had tried moving on with my life several times but it seemed impossible. I still had a soft spot for him and it was hard to get over him.

"It's not that easy, Ava," I responded in a sad tone.

"I know, but you have to try. Find someone else and try giving them a chance." I snorted at her statement.

I didn't put any effort into associating myself with anybody and I wasn't really the chatty type. Finding someone else would be very difficult unless the moon goddess came to my rescue.

"You know there's someone who really wants and cares about you," Ava said as she figured out what I was thinking about.

I knew exactly who she was referring to but even if I wanted to give him a chance, I didn't want Aiden to be my rebound. I cared about him so much and didn't just want to use him as a means to get over his brother.

"I think it's best to focus on myself and heal genuinely without using someone else as a distraction." I finally responded to Ava.

"Okay, but I'm rooting for you and Aiden. You deserve a nice guy like him."

I shrugged at her words. Aiden was also very attractive and being with him wouldn't be bad but all this while, I was blinded by the idea of Dimitri that I didn't see what was right in front of me.

I wondered if he still felt the same way about me but I didn't want to think about it too much. He was my best friend and I was okay with that.

After making my bed, I sluggishly went downstairs for breakfast. On my way to the dining, I ran into Becky who was on her way out of the house.

I gave her a deadly look and thought about all the ways I could rip her heart apart. She stood at the front door for some seconds, giving me a mischievous smile before exiting the door.

We both hated each other but unlike me, she didn't have any reason to hate me because I didn't steal her boyfriend.

Mine was justifiable because she took Dimitri away from me and always tried rubbing it on my face whenever she had the chance.

I sighed and was on my way to the dining table when Dimitri angrily trudged down the stairs.

Normally, I would have asked what the problem was but since he practically told me he didn't give a fuck about me and earlier, I just kept shut and watched him as he went through the front door.