Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“She’s angry at you, me, and Galen. But she also knows she shouldn’t be,” Axel said.
“At me?” she asked. “Why? What did I do?”
“You’re moving forward,” Alice sighed. “You are moving to Summer to be with your family. You are continuing your life after the war. Axel and Galen are making plans to unify the packs, and they aren’t waiting to implement the ideas.”
Bell took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Selene had been struggling since she woke up. She couldn’t accept that Alexander was gone. Her entire focus was on finding a way to bring him back, but no matter how much anyone else wanted to believe, they had no way of helping her.
Bell wanted to let Selene process her grief in her own way, but she was worried about her doing something that might put her in danger.
“I don’t think she should be taking any trips alone,” she said.
“She’s not,” Alice replied. “Myka is taking his troop out on their first adventure. They are going to Moonguard together.”
Bell sighed.
“She’ll be all right,” Alice said gently.
“I know,” Bell said. “I just wish I knew how to help her.”
“We all do,” came a voice from the doorway.
Bell turned with a skip of her heart as she saw him highlighted by the sunlight behind him.
“Galen!” she cried, running and jumping into his arms.
He let out a throaty laugh as he caught and kissed her.
“Hello,” he whispered against her lips as he pulled away just enough to breathe.
“I missed you,” she whispered, pecking his lips again.
“I missed you too,” he replied, kissing her again.
Axel cleared his throat, twice.
Bell laughed as she pulled away from Galen, and he let her down. She turned to Axel with a smug grin.
“See, it’s annoying, isn’t it?” she asked.
“First,” Axel began with a look of irritation, “it’s not the first time you two have slobbered on each other in front of me. Second, Alice and I just talked. We didn’t pounce on each other like you.”
“Yea, but it’s the way you two say things… it makes me feel all dirty,” Bell said with disgust.
Galen laughed and moved to grab a pile of boxes to take to the car as Axel and Bell continued to debate which couple was more inconsiderate to the other. But when Alice picked up a box and started for the door, both Axel and Bell dropped the debate and leaped to stop her.
“Twins, sit!” Bell growled, taking the box from Alice’s hands.
“Leave this to us,” Axel said sweetly, leading Alice to sit at the dining set that Bell was also leaving behind. “You need to save your energy.”
Axel kissed her forehead, and Alice nodded with a knowing smile as he gave her a look that told her he had plans for that saved energy when they returned home.
Bell scoffed and rolled her eyes from the doorway.
“This is what I’m talking about,” she said, “the way you talk to each other… creepy.”
“Oh right, like the two of you are any better?” Axel said as he picked up a box and headed toward the door.
“Uh, yea, we are,” Bell countered. She turned just as Galen returned from the car. “We are far better at keeping our hands and eyes to ourselves in front of others than they are, right?”
“Not even a little bit,” Galen replied, kissing her head with a grin as he passed by for another box.
[Present]
“Wait…” Alexander said, interrupting Selene’s story. “Axel actually tried to unite the packs?”
Selene smiled and nodded.
“Wow,” Alexander chuckled.
He thought back to a few different conversations. Ideas tossed back and forth. Some accusations, judgments, and assumptions. That was how he and Axel had developed their friendship. They started at the bottom and worked their way up.
“We talked about it, just a little bit. It was after I went to Burning Ember,” he said. “As we planned our alliances and learned more about the packs already taken by Autumn. We talked about how much easier we could have made each other’s lives if we had just found a way to be united.”
Selene listened as Alexander spoke. She already knew the story. Axel had been the one to share it. It didn’t surprise her back then that Alexander would have agreed to the plan or even helped to think of it. What surprised her was that she hadn’t known about it. Even now, hearing it from his own lips, it stung to know that others had known him better than she had.
“I remember when he told me about the changes he had made in Winter, the sort of committee-style leadership across the territory. I was shocked. Wyatt never would have agreed to it. Hell, I probably wouldn’t have either,” Alexander laughed. “But Axel knew what he was doing. He had better long-term vision than either of us ever had.”
Selene nodded.
“I thought he was being reckless, maybe even lazy, at the time,” she admitted. She took a deep breath and looked away. “I always thought I knew so much more than him.”
Alexander put his arm around her and pulled her close.
“Are you all right?” he asked.
She smiled and nodded.
“It’s all water under the bridge,” she said. “Axel and I have… worked through a lot in the past few years. We’ve made our apologies and moved on, but I guess some things still linger.”
Alexander turned and kissed her head. She looked up at him.
“How come I didn’t know?” she asked.
“Know what?”
“About the things you guys talked about… about wanting to unite the packs?” she said.
“Oh. It wasn’t a real idea or plan at the time. There wasn’t a need to discuss it,” he said. “We were preparing for war. You were struggling with Lily and the evil alphas in your mind. I mean, other more pressing things were happening at the time.”
Selene looked down and nodded, but Alexander knew she wasn’t comforted by his words.
“Selene, it wasn’t something I was trying to hide from you,” he said, turning her chin to look up at him. “I would have told you when it became something real.”
“I know,” she said, giving him a sad smile.
“Then what’s wrong?” he asked. “I know you, Selene. I can see and feel that there is something on your mind.”
Selene stared at him for a long moment before letting out a sigh and a soft chuckle.
“You do know me,” she whispered. “You always did.”
“Why is that a source of sadness?” Alexander asked. He felt a deep tug at his heart from their bond.
“It’s not,” she said. “But, realizing that I don’t know you the same way is.”
“What are you talking about?” he said. “Of course you know me! Just because I had a conversation with your brother you didn’t know about doesn’t mean you don’t know me!”
“I didn’t know your birthday,” she whispered.
Alexander swallowed.
“Selene, I told you….” he sighed. “That was my fault. I don’t celebrate it, so I never told you.”
Selene nodded.
“I know,” she whispered. “But I didn’t know what day it was. Not until the vigil.”
Alexander felt his heart sink into his chest.
“Selene…”
She smiled sadly, her eyes shining with gathered tears.
“Fiona kept calling and calling. She wanted me to come to Summer, but I kept refusing. I wasn’t ready to be there without you,” Selene began. “To see everyone else just accept that you were gone. I was too angry. Too heartbroken.”
He knew she wouldn’t let him hold her, but he desperately wanted to. So instead, he took her hand. Tears rolled down her cheeks, but she didn’t look at him.
“When I woke up in that hospital, the only thing that mattered was you….” she began.
[Five Years Ago]
Selene woke to an empty room. Her tired eyes moved across the ceiling, down the walls. It was a hospital room. The monitor beside her let out a soft beep as if to confirm that she was right.
Her throat felt dry, and her body was weak. How long had she been here? Where was she? The last thing she remembered was riding the wave of the ley line.
That was when her heart stopped, and she was overwhelmed by panic as the memory flowed over her.
His fingertips grazed hers as she tried to grab hold of him. Her eyes were wide in fear as she stared back at him.
“I love you, always,” he whispered as four long vines flew up from behind him, surrounding him and wrapping around his body.
And then he was yanked back into the darkness, fading from her view.
“Alexander!!!!” she screamed. “Alexander!!”
The monitor beside her echoed her screams as her heart raced. She thrashed in her bed as she saw him disappearing into the darkness, as she saw the portal sealing behind her.
She heard Myka’s voice telling her that the ley line was gone, that he was gone. Her screams became guttural and painful. Her throat was raw and strained as though it were tearing. But she couldn’t stop.
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