Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
She pulled out a leather-bound book she didn’t recognize at first, and she wondered if it had been packed by accident.
Selene suddenly remembered Clara’s impromptu visit to Winter. The day before Wyatt had died.
“This is Alpha Cain’s journal,” she whispered.
With all that had happened, she had completely forgotten about it. She hadn’t even told Alexander yet.
Clara and Nessa were away at Broken Crag when Selene returned to Summer. There had been an attack near the mountain, and Jonas was injured. Nessa wanted to see her father after hearing about the tragic loss of Wyatt.
Selene remembered how worked up Clara had seemed about the journal.
“There must be something pretty important in here,” she said.
She opened it up and began to turn the pages.
There were sketches of plants, rock formations, and animals. Small notes beside each illustration identified what it was, where he had seen it, and a few comments.
Turning a few more pages, she found a short entry that described Cain having been asked by Alpha Gorn to check into an unknown power source discovered near Spring. Looking at the date of the entry, it was roughly ten years ago.
But Selene didn’t know of any power sources near Spring.
She turned the page, hoping to learn more, when the door suddenly opened wide. Selene turned to see Alexander with a look of concern on his face.
Selene got to her feet.
“What is it?”
“We need to return to Winter,” he said.
Selene put the journal down and grabbed her pin from the top of her dresser.
“Let’s go. You can explain in the car,” she said.
Alexander shook his head.
“We’re running,” he said.
Selene stopped and looked at him.
“What?”
“Taking the car, it will take us six hours to get there, as wolves, cutting over the land instead of around it like the road does, we’ll cut the time in half,” he said. “I’ve already sent a team in the trucks with instructions to floor it and run once they reach the halfway point.”
“What’s happening, Alexander? Why the rush? Why are we sending a team to Winter?” Selene asked, her heart beating wildly in her chest.
“We don’t know yet,” he said. “Alice called when she couldn’t get through to anyone–”
“Wait, Alice?” Selene asked. “She’s not there?”
“She was on assignment from Axel to investigate the rogues. But, look, that doesn’t matter right now.”
“You’re right,” Selene nodded. “So, what happened?”
“Communications with Winter have been lost. I checked the logs for the defense systems from before the communications loss. Everything looked fine at first glance but looking closer, there are pockets along the fence that have had the power turned off.”
“Winter is under attack?!” Selene shouted.
“If they aren’t already, they will be soon.”
Alexander and Selene made better time than he had anticipated. They were still five miles from Winter, but he wanted to check the communications tower first.
This was part of the treaty shared between the packs; Summer maintained communications and electricity, regardless of war or strife between the packs.
As they approached, Alexander already knew from the smell in the air what they would find inside the tower.
“Is that…” Selene’s words died on her lips as Alexander pushed open the door, and the answer covered the floor in front of them.
Alexander sighed as he pulled out his phone and called to order a repair of the tower and recovery of the bodies.
Beyond the two men lying dead on the ground, their blood pooling beneath them, Alexander could see that the hardware had been damaged. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be a quick fix to get communications back up and running in Winter.
He had barely hung up the phone when it suddenly rang in his hand. He sighed and told Selene to give him a minute.
“Alice, I” Alexander began.
“This is not ‘letting me know what you find out,’ Alexander!” Alice shouted. “I have been calling for almost two hours!”
“I was on the road,” Alexander sighed. “Listen, we just got to the communications tower for Winter. It’s been sabotaged, and my techs murdered. So Selene and I are headed to Winter now.”
“Sabotaged? How?”
“Brute force,” Alexander replied.
“Then it wasn’t Holden,” Alice sighed.
“What?”
“Attacking the communications tower is something Holden has mentioned before, but he doesn’t like brute force methods. They are too easily discovered,” she replied. “Which means this is Roman.”
Alexander clenched his jaw.
“It could be rogues,” he said.
“No, it can’t,” she replied. “I’m with the rogues.”
“What? I thought you were just sent to observe them?”
“We don’t have time Alexander,” she continued. “It’s Roman. He must be going after Bell.”
“Except Roman can’t enter Winter.”
“He doesn’t need to if he sends a force in after her.”
Alexander suddenly thought of the pockets along the fence that had no power. Roman could be planning to take Bell at one of those positions.
“I gotta go, Alice.”
Alice was silent, but he could hear her sharp breaths. Trying to calm herself.
“I want to hear from Axel tonight,” she said.
“Communications aren’t going to be fixed right away. We don’t know what is happening in Winter. I might not be able to”
“Tonight!” Alice shouted. “You will find a way for Axel to call me, to let me hear his voice tonight. Or I swear to your Goddess, Alexander. I will tear down the walls of Summer!”
Alexander took a deep breath. The Alpha in him wanted to demand that she show him respect. But he knew she was just scared.
“I will do my best, Alice… for now, I need to go.”
After hanging up, Alexander called the team, which was already on its way. He updated them on the situation, telling them to hurry and reminding them that Bell was Galen’s wife and was pregnant with his child.
Alexander returned to Selene. Without a word, he knew that she wanted to tell him not to trust in Alice too much, but she held back.
He grabbed a stick lying on the ground and drew a rough border map.
“From what I remember, there were three points along the eastern border without power and two along the western border. Those are here and here.”
“So, you take west, and I’ll take east,” Selene said. “One of us is bound to find them.”
“We could do that,” he said. “But I think it might be better if you go straight in and avoid the fight altogether.”
“What? Why?”
“Hear me out,” Alexander said. “If you go straight from the southern border, you can tell the patrol what’s happening. Yea, communications are down, but they can still get troops on the way.”
“I can do that at any of the entry points along the east,” she argued.
“I know, but if you enter the south and go straight to the center, you might be able to warn Bell first.”
Selene’s eyes widened.
“They’re after Bell?”
Alexander nodded.
“Alice thinks it might be Roman.”
“Oh, Goddess…”
“We’re going to stop them,” Alexander said, touching his hand to her shoulder.
She nodded.
“You’ll go south?” he asked.
“Yes.”
“Ok, I’ll go east. Let’s go.”
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