Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
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When Selene reached the southern border entrance, there were no patrolmen, no guards. The security system was active, but no one was at their post. She was suddenly thrilled that Alexander had insisted that even though she was now a member of Summer, her scan be included in the permissions for the system.
She found two of the patrolmen out cold. The others were missing. She discovered their walkie-talkies, but they were already smashed to pieces. After waking them, she told them what was happening and sent them to inform everyone they could while she made her way home.
As she made her way north, she heard alarms. But it wasn’t what she expected. These weren’t the security alarms that warned of an attack. Instead, these were used to indicate fires or dangerous weather conditions.
The kind of things that would force children, the elderly, and pregnant women into one place.
Selene pushed herself to run even faster across the snow-covered land.
“Bell!” Selene shouted as she pushed open the doors of the community center.
All around, women and children stared back at her in confusion.
“Selene?” called a soft voice.
Selene turned to face a young woman she recognized from the hospital. One of the nurses that worked with Bell.
“Have you seen Bell?” Selene asked.
“Uh, she was just here. But one of the scouts came. They said that she was needed by Alpha Axel.”
“By Axel? Where?”
“I’m not sure,” she said, then added. “It was strange, though. When I made my way here, I saw Alpha Axel and Galen heading toward the fires in the east. But it looked like the scout was leading her toward the west.”
“Thank you!” Selene shouted as she ran back out the door.
She looked toward the west, the entrance to the forest. Oddly enough, the last time she had gone searching for Bell was along the western border.
Unsurprisingly, it was also the point at which the edge of the mountain served as part of the border. It was identified early as one of the weak points that the security system could not monitor.
Because of that, a team of scouts was permanently assigned to that section.
Selene remembered seeing the team that was newly assigned to that post. She remembered because she wished Penny luck with her new assignment.
‘I’m headed west,’ Selene whispered in her mind to Alexander. ‘Bell was seen being taken by a scout toward the mountain. I’m going after them.’
Using their connection for communication didn’t always work. Even after all these months, they still didn’t quite understand how their link worked. It seemed that part of it had to do with missing each other, needing to feel one another even at a distance.
All she could do was hope that he could hear her, even if he couldn’t respond.
She made her way into the trees, looking for any sign of which direction Bell and the scout had gone.
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“A scout?” Alexander whispered aloud.
He heard Selene whisper, but he wasn’t able to respond.
He was making his way up the eastern border to the north. Having found tracks and a few dead patrolmen, there was no denying that an attack was happening. Then, in the distance, he saw large columns of black smoke in the air. A hauntingly familiar image as he thought back to the day after the Eclipsed attack.
Alexander headed toward the smoke.
‘Alpha Alexander?’ a familiar voice suddenly spoke in his mind.
Alexander stopped in his tracks; his brows furrowed.
‘Clara?’
‘Oh, my Goddess! It worked!’ Clara shouted with excitement.
‘How am I hearing you?’ Alexander asked.
She was coming through on his neural link, but only Galen had another implant. Even still, the tower damage prevented communication between them.
‘Well, Nessa sort of… borrowed… one of the human satellites and redirected the signal from our communications tower.’
‘She did what?!’
‘She swears they won’t notice!’
Alexander sighed.
‘She adjusted the frequencies so our normal comms can reach you and Galen on your neural link. Though we haven’t tried Galen yet.’
Ignoring all the ways this could go wrong, Alexander told her to go ahead and try.
‘We got him!’ Clara called out excitedly. ‘Ok, we can’t do much for you from here, but the team you sent is approaching Winter now. So I am going to connect you and Galen. The comms here will serve as a bridge to keep your link open.’
‘Thank you, Clara.’
There was a soft giggle before another voice spoke out.
‘Alexander?’ Galen called out.
‘Galen, I’m glad to hear your voice.’
‘What is going on?’ Galen asked. ‘We have fires all over Winter, and communications are down. Axel thinks,
‘It’s an attack,’ Alexander interrupted. ‘The communications tower was damaged, and the security system was compromised. Tell me where you are, and I will come to you.’
After a quiet moment, Galen replied.
‘Eastern village about a mile from the border… and Alexander?’
Alexander had already started in the direction he was told.
‘Hurry, they’re here.’
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[A Few Minutes Earlier]
“How did this happen?!” Galen shouted, passing the bucket of water down the line.
When an out of control fire had been reported, he had expected to find one, maybe two buildings on fire. But when he and Axel had arrived in the small eastern village, almost every building was already in a blaze.
The dark plumes in the northern distance were even more concerning than that.
“First communications go down, now fires?” Axel growled quietly. “Someone has breached our borders.”
“I agree,” Galen sighed. “Based on where we see the smoke, I would guess they started here in the east and have made their way up.”
“Why the fires? Most of these people made it out of their homes alive. So why not just attack them? With communications down, we wouldn’t have known to come to help them. It was the smoke that sent us here.”
Galen looked around. He, Axel, and a large number of cold warriors had immediately left the central city and come to put out the fires. Even now, some of the cold warriors were splitting off to go north.
‘Galen?’ Clara’s voice called to him.
He was surprised to hear her voice, less surprised when she explained how she had gotten access to his link.
Clara told him that Alexander and Selene were in Winter and that they had learned about the communications going down and sent a team. He felt relieved knowing they had backup on the way.
Hearing Alexander’s voice reassured him. Axel was a great leader and strong Alpha, but Alexander would always be Galen’s Alpha.
“Galen!” Axel called just as Alexander asked for their location.
Galen turned his attention to where Axel pointed. Between the fiery buildings, he saw movement. There were at least fifty of them. Wolves. Their fur was matted and dirty, their lips drawn back in rabid snarls.
‘Eastern village about a mile from the border… and Alexander?’
Galen didn’t wait for a reply.
‘Hurry, they’re here.’
***
Selene had been following the faint smell of Bell’s shampoo. She had only recognized it because of its uniqueness.
When she had stayed at Bell’s house, she had first noticed the strange smell. Later, she learned it was a new shampoo, bubble gum scented. Bell admitted that pregnancy had done strange things to her tastes.
It was clear that Bell was being taken toward the mountain. Selene considered whether or not to just spring ahead, but there was the slightest chance that she was wrong. If she was, she would lose them.
As she weighed her options, she almost missed the movement behind her. Her reaction was too late to avoid getting hit but quick enough to prevent the second swing from the hand that held the knife.
Selene rolled to the ground beneath her. Then, swinging her leg, she swept the man and brought him down hard on his face. Quickly she jumped on top of him and punched him hard, knocking him out. Then, as she moved to stand, she was caught around the throat by an arm from someone behind her.
A light whistle through the air kept her from reacting. A soft groan of protest came from the woman that had grabbed her, and then Selene was free. The woman fell to her knees and then onto her back with an arrow piercing her throat.
Selene turned in the direction the arrow had come from. There, still holding her bow aimed, with an arrow already notched, stood Penelope.
“Penny…” Selene whispered. “Where did you come from?”
Penelope lowered her bow.
“I’ve been here all day,” she said. “I’m assigned to the mountain’s edge, remember?”
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