Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
Irina gasped. Her tear-soaked face lifted and she looked all around her. Nothing had changed except for the complete silence.
‘Stop him…’ a whisper came to her.
This one was different. It was one voice, one clear voice, that begged her.
‘Stop him…’ it called again.
Irina spun around, looking for whoever might be near her.
“You must stop him.”
Irina gasped as the voice came from behind her.
It was a woman.
Dark, rich chocolate skin, beautiful green eyes of jade, and a head of golden curls. She wore a sage colored dress in a Greek style that was long and lightweight.
“Who are you?” Irina whispered.
“You must stop him, don’t let him touch the tree,” the woman said.
“Who?”
“Alpha Cain, he must not touch the tree,” the woman said. “No matter what, you must stop him.”
“Who are you?” Irina asked.
The woman did not answer.
A sound from the trees drew Irina’s attention, just for a moment, but it was long enough for the other woman to disappear.
Irina gasped.
“The Goddess…” Irina whispered. “The Goddess must have sent her….”
She took deep breaths and looked up at the sky with her hands held together in prayer.
“I will stop him!” she called out, “but in return, please, stop the whispers. Make the noise stop!”
She whispered a prayer and then turned and ran as fast as possible to the cave.
It didn’t take long for her to find him.
He wasn’t supposed to be there. She knew Gorn had ordered him to stay out of the chamber after their last argument.
“Stop, Cain! You cannot go in there!” she shouted.
Cain turned and looked at her. He smiled and laughed.
“You scared me,” he said. “I just need a few quick samples, no big deal.”
He turned to continue on his way.
Irina growled.
“I said no, Cain!”
“Irina, come on,” Cain sighed. “I’ll be quick.”
Irina ran to the front of the cave entrance.
“You cannot touch the tree, Cain. You can’t!” she shouted.
“Irina… are you ok?” he asked.
“Go,” she insisted.
“Please, just talk to me. Tell me, what is going on with you?” Cain said.
“Go!” she screamed.
“No,” he stated. “I am concerned about you. You aren’t acting like yourself. Please just tell me what is happening to you!”
He took a step forward, and she saw his concern. But the silence around her, the protective shielding she was clinging to, suddenly breached. The loud, twisted call of the chamber, the whispers, and the shrieking all fell over her at once.
And among the voices, she still heard the woman’s voice.
‘Stop him.’
The Goddess would take away all this chaos if she could stop him. She had to stop him.
“You cannot touch the tree; I won’t let you!” she screamed as she flew at him.
Irina hit and scratched him, pushing him further and further away from the cave entrance. He shouted, he tried to speak, but she couldn’t hear him anymore. He wasn’t one of them. The whispers, the voices, the shrieking. His words were lost to her.
***
Gorn locked her away after what happened with Cain. But not before Irina told him that Cain wanted the power for himself. That he planned to analyze the tree to harness the power. It wasn’t true, but she knew it was enough to convince Gorn to keep Cain away from the tree.
She was left in a windowless room for days, weeks, and months. It could have been years for all she knew.
Her mind was going. The endless noise was all that seemed to remain. But every once in a while, there would be the slightest dip in the sound. Just a few moments where the world was just a little bit quieter.
It was in one of these moments that she saw the woman again.
She appeared in her cell, and Irina cried at the sight of her. She jumped to her feet.
“I stopped him!” she said through tears of joy. “I stopped Cain from touching the tree!”
“Yes,” the woman smiled. “You did good.”
“Then the Goddess will heal me now?” she asked with every ounce of hope left in her soul.
The woman reached her hand out to Irina. Her heart raced, and she felt the most remarkable anticipation and joy she had ever felt since the first day she had laughed with Roman by the lake.
But then, nothing happened.
“I’m sorry,” the woman said sadly. “There is nothing I can do for you… I can’t heal what’s been done to you.”
“What..? But.. I did what you asked… I stopped Alpha Cain….” Irina whispered desperately. “Please… please, you have to help me!”
“I can’t,” the woman said, backing up as she spoke. “I’m sorry.”
In the blink of an eye, the woman was gone. And the noise was louder than ever as Irina fell to her knees and cried.
*** TRIGGER WARNING: DEPICTIONS OF SUICIDE/SELF HARM ***
She didn’t know how she had left the room, or climbed the stairs, or climbed the building. All she knew was that the noise was lessened here. Above the world below, the noise was almost gone.
Looking down, she wondered what she had done so wrong that her life had become what it did.
She remembered holding Roman in her arms for that brief moment after she had him. Looking into his fiery eyes and knowing he would either be the light and warmth in the darkness or burn the world to the ground.
Was finding comfort and pleasure at the Blood Moon like all the other single wolves wrong?
Was wishing to raise her child so wrong?
All she had wanted was him and the quiet.
And as the breeze moved faster along her skin and through her hair, she knew that when it stopped, she would at least have the quiet.
The pain she felt was indescribable. But it was also brief. The noise around her was gone, and soon everything else would be too.
Her breathing was getting difficult, and her vision was darker.
But it wasn’t gone, and the image that appeared before her was far more painful than the impact on her body.
Fiery eyes, filled with tears, stared down at her. His beautiful face twisted in pain and sorrow.
The world around her was silent, save for the one word she had longed to hear for so many years.
“Mother!” Roman screamed above her.
Irina’s eyes filled with tears, her mind with regret. She wanted to reach up to him, to touch him. But she couldn’t move.
‘I can help you….” a raspy voice whispered in her mind. ‘If you wish it.’
“How…” Irina whispered out loud.
Roman’s eyes widened. “Mother?”
‘Tell our darling son to bring you back to me. I will make sure you survive the trip.’
“Do you… swear…?” Irina asked.
Roman looked at her with confusion.
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