Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
In that instant, Alexander was on them. He pulled Jackson by the back of his shirt and flung him across the path to slam hard into a tree.
Feeling the weight of Jackson’s body suddenly pulled away, Selene kept her eyes squeezed tightly. But she curled in on herself. Bringing her wrists down against her chest and crouching into a ball against the base of the tree.
She sobbed, gasping for air that never seemed to fill her lungs.
“Selene…?”
Alexander’s voice called to her like a dream, a gentle, comforting dream.
She lifted her head and turned toward his voice. He was crouched down beside her. His grey eyes looked at her with such care it almost hurt.
“Alexander?” she whispered.
He clenched his jaw and creased his brows. The look on his face was solemn, worried, and angry.
“Are you ok?” he asked as he reached to touch her.
Selene pulled away without meaning to. Clutching her arms tightly against herself once more. In that action, his expression shifted. The anger turned to rage.
Alexander stood up and turned his back to her. As he walked away, Selene saw something lying in the snow, and her head finally cleared enough to piece together what had happened.
Jackson struggled to get to his feet. He was stunned, dizzy. He finally managed to sit up when Alexander appeared before him once again. Jackson was lifted from his place on the ground, raised into the air by the intensity of Alexander’s rage.
He stared into Alexander’s grey eyes, burning like a white-hot flame. For just a moment, he hoped that Alexander would kill him, that he would make him pay for hurting Selene.
But then another thought fell over his mind. His belief that Selene would then seek comfort in Alexander’s arms. Jealousy burned in Jackson’s soul. He would not lose her, not to Alexander or anyone else.
Both men growled and snarled at each other. Alexander threw Jackson once again. A loud crack echoed through the forest as his body slammed against the tree, splintering it.
Selene gasped, looking up to see Jackson’s body crumpling to the ground.
Jackson got to his knees, his body already protesting, turning his head, he spat on the ground, fresh blood in the snow. Then, wiping his mouth, he snarled as he stood and faced the rage-filled Alpha before him.
“Is that one of those famous Summer tactics? Attacking someone only when their back is turned?”
“Is it your habit to force yourself on an unwilling woman!” Alexander roared.
“You don’t know what you are talking about!” Jackson called back. “This is an issue between mates! Not an outsider!”
‘This bastard put his filthy hands on her, made her cry!’ Alexander screamed in his mind. ‘Yet he still dares to call himself her mate!’
Alexander took a step towards Jackson, snarling. His blood was on fire. He could see nothing but a target before him.
Jackson felt the rage that flowed off of Alexander. His aura had almost visibly changed into a warning. A presence that told you to run. This was the Alpha in him. It infuriated Jackson.
‘I am not less than you!’ he snarked in his mind.
Jackson was the first to make a move. He ran at Alexander, full speed. He was fast, but Alexander was faster. As Jackson got close, Alexander pulled his fist back and threw it forward, landing his hit square on Jackson’s chest, sending him crashing to the ground.
Selene looked over as the two men stared each other down. Her shock was starting to fade, clearing the way for her mind to process what she was seeing.
‘They’re going to kill each other…’ she thought to herself.
Alexander stalked over to Jackson, who still lay flat on the ground. He reached down and picked him up, hoisting him into the air above him. He pulled back his fist and slammed it into Jackson’s face. A sickening sound as Alexander hit him again and again.
Selene gasped.
Her dream surfaced again, the feeling of Alexander’s hands gripping at her shoulders, forcing her to her knees as the pain overwhelmed her. Even now, the cold hatred in his eyes sent a shiver up her spine.
He had hurt her, killed her. It was a dream, but watching him hit Jackson now made it feel so real.
“Alexander!” she screamed. “Stop!”
Alexander stopped.
He looked back at Selene; her face twisted in fear. Alexander dropped Jackson to the ground, rushing back to her.
“Selene, it’s ok…” he said softly as he knelt beside her. “It’s ok. I won’t let him hurt you anymore.”
As angry as he still was, he was more concerned about her. Alexander calmed the fires in his heart, pushed away from the desire to kill that pathetic excuse for a wolf. Focusing all his attention on Selene, he softened himself to comfort her.
“You need to stop,” she said.
“What?” he asked, unsure what she meant.
“Leave him alone, don’t hurt him anymore!” Selene cried out through fresh tears.
Alexander felt as though he had been struck by her. She was afraid? Of him?
“Selene…” he began, “what are you… he was hurting you!”
She looked up at Alexander, and back down at herself, the bruises on her wrists.
‘How much did he see?’ she wondered with shame.
“Go away,” she said coldly.
“No,” he replied.
“Go. Away.” She demanded.
“No,” he said again, “I won’t leave you like this, not with him.”
Alexander was angry, but his concern outweighed anything else he felt.
“He is my mate!” she screamed at him, “this is between us. It has nothing to do with you!”
Alexander clenched his jaw, swallowing down the painful feeling.
“Selene–“
“Go!” she shouted.
Alexander took a deep breath.
“Fine.”
He stood up, staring down at her.. He sighed before walking away.
Selene took deep breaths, but it didn’t matter, her chest was too heavy, and she didn’t have the strength to lift it. Her tiny fist hit her chest, desperate to make it work properly. Her throat, shoulders, every part of her ached.
She slumped down, dropping her elbows to the soft snow below her. Her shoulders heaved with desperate sobs.
Everything felt wrong.
The sound of footsteps drew her attention. She looked up; Jackson stared down at her from five feet away. Then, he took another step towards her.
“No.”
Her voice shook, but there was strength in it. Jackson stopped.
“Stay away,” she said.
“Selene, I–“
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