Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
Selene nodded.
“I guess I don’t need to tell you that communications are down, and we’ve had a breach,” she said.
“Got that,” Selene said. “Did you see Bell around here?”
“Bell?” Penelope asked with furrowed brows. “She should be at the community center with the others.”
“She was,” Selene said, “but a scout came and told her that Axel needed her. So they took her west.”
“Alpha Axel wouldn’t be over here,” Penelope said. “There are fires in the east. He would have gone that way.”
Selene looked at Penelope, her eyes running over the bow in her hand.
“If you’ve been here all day and communications are down, how do you know where the fires are?” Selene asked.
Penelope looked at Selene curiously, then sighed.
“The trees, Selene,” Penelope said. “I make my way around through the trees. When the alarms went off, I was already pretty high. I just kept going and saw the smoke, right to the east and north.”
Selene nodded.
“I’m not the traitor,” Penelope growled.
“Didn’t say you were.”
“No,” Penelope smiled sarcastically. “You just thought it very obviously.”
Selene sighed.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “I don’t know who to trust, but Bell is in danger, and I need help finding her.”
Penelope clenched her jaw and then looked away.
“You came from that way. I came from over there,” she said, pointing in different directions. “The traitor is one of our scouts, which means they know that going this way is the best option to avoid getting caught.”
Penelope motioned into the trees. Selene furrowed her brow, there was one path left, and it was a direct route to the edge of the mountain.
“This way would be quicker if they are trying to leave Winter,” she said.
“Yes, but that way is also patrolled and has had traps placed for exactly this reason.”
Selene hesitated. Looking between the two paths. Suddenly a thought occurred to her. She looked back at Penelope.
“You said the traitor is one of our scouts… how do you know that?”
Penelope sighed.
“Because Saul has narrowed it down to three people,” she said. “He asked me to help check on two of them.”
“Who?” Selene growled.
“When all the teams were pulled in, the scouts got rearranged. I was placed at the edge along with two other people. One of them, I found not long before I found you. Dead in the snow.”
“What about the other?”
“No sign of him,” she said. “He was already gone by the time the alarms went off.”
“Who?”
“Oren.”
Selene furrowed her brows.
“I know that name…” she said quietly. “Why do I know that name?”
“Because he was one of my brother’s scouts.”
Selene’s eyes widened. She remembered him now. He was one of the wolves that had helped Jackson escape. The one that requested to be sent outside of Winter.
“Then he is the one that has Bell,” Selene said. “We need to find him!”
***
Alexander drove his sword down on the wolf, pinning it to the ground. The maddened creature continued to throw its body side to side and clamp its jaws in Alexander’s direction. In doing so, it only hastened its demise, tearing at its flesh and organs with each movement against the sharp blade of his sword.
“These aren’t rogues….” Alexander said as he pulled the sword out of the thrashing body. Though practically cut in half, it still tried to reach him. Finally, with a squelching grunt, the monster took its last ragged breath.
“Whatever they are, their numbers seem endless!” Axel shouted. Another ten or so of these wolves made their way out from between the flames of the buildings.
All around them, cold warriors were fighting against the rabid dogs, they were not difficult to fight, but they were tenacious, unyielding. And there were so many of them.
“Alpha!” a man shouted behind them. “Look!”
At the call, both Axel and Alexander turned to see another group approaching. There were at least forty men and women wearing expressions of malice and contempt.
“Autumn wolves,” Alexander said.
“How do you know?” Axel asked.
“Alice thought Roman might be behind this,” he replied.
Axel turned to Alexander.
“You spoke with her?” he asked.
Alexander nodded, “She’s the reason we even learned there was a problem in Winter.”
Axel smiled and turned back to face the new additions to the battlefield.
Galen stepped up beside Alexander.
“We can take these guys, no problem,” he grinned.
“We can take them,” Alexander said, indicating himself and Axel. “You have somewhere else to be.”
“What?”
“Selene was headed toward the western border, near the mountain. She was searching for Bell, who had been led away by an unnamed scout.”
“What!?” Galen shouted, panicked.
“Go, we’ve got this,” Axel said.
Galen nodded quickly, and without looking back, he ran to the west, shifting into his wolf to move faster.
“You ready?” Axel asked.
“I better be,” Alexander said. “Alice said that if I don’t get you on the phone with her tonight, she will tear down the walls of Summer.”
Axel chuckled.
“We better get to work,” he said. “Don’t want to leave you homeless.”
Alexander laughed.
Together, they charged at the party of Autumn wolves who were already making their way toward the two alphas.
***
“Why exactly did Axel say he needed to see me?” Bell asked, looking around the area. She immediately noticed where they were going.
The border wasn’t far now.
“He didn’t say, only that I needed to bring you to him.”
“And where is he, exactly?” she asked.
“Not far.”
“Oren,” Bell called, stopping where she stood. “I’m not going any further until you tell me where you are taking me.”
“Alpha Axel wants to keep you safe. So he has arranged a bunker to hide you.”
“From what?”
“There is an attack happening right now. He didn’t want you to be scared, so he told me not to tell you until you were safe.”
“Attack by who?” Bell asked, feeling her pulse quicken.
“Autumn wolves,” Oren replied, “now, please. We have to go.”
Bell didn’t move.
Her heart was racing, and her throat felt dry. She put her hands over her swollen belly, hugging it.
She shook her head.
“It doesn’t make sense,” she said softly.
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