Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes for just a moment.
“But, I think—no…” he said, pausing and licking his lips. “I know… the thing he’ll be most pissed off about… is how long and what it took for me to finally do this.”
Selene’s hands gripped into tight fists. She was angry and hurt. Removing Alexander as Alpha felt like another way he was being removed from their world. An official seal on his death certificate.
But as angry and hurt as she felt, she could hear the truth in Galen’s words. She could recognize that he was right. Even more than that, she could recognize the pain he was in.
Galen turned the knob, preparing to leave. Selene took a step toward him before he could open the door.
“You still think… you’ll face him again?” she asked, her voice quieter than expected.
Galen paused. He swallowed as he carefully considered how to respond. After a moment, he let go of the door and turned back to look at her.
“Alpha Alexander is gone,” he said. “He can’t come back.”
Selene’s chest tightened, her jaw clenched, her fingernails dug into the palms of her curled fists, and she lowered her eyes to the ground.
“But Alexander… son, brother… husband?” Galen said. “He’s just lost.”
Selene lifted her gaze to his with furrowed brows. Galen looked back at her with a gentle expression and a soft smile.
“What’s lost can still be found,” he whispered.
Selene gasped in surprise. She wanted to ask if he really meant it. If he still believed that Alexander would come home. But before she could say anything, the door he stood ready to open swung hard against him, knocking him to the ground.
“Galen!” Selene shouted as he hit the ground with a heavy thud.
Galen let out an audible groan and didn’t get back up immediately. She wondered if he might have hit his head.
“Luna Selene…?” an excited voice questioned.
Selene looked up to see two men and a woman standing and staring back at her from just outside the doorway. They were smiling. She could see that they were more than happy to see her. But their smiles twitched slightly, and their wide eyes were red-rimmed with dark, heavy bags under them.
“Luna Selene…” the first man repeated. “You’re really here… we found you…”
He stepped into the room. His smile turned into a laugh and a heavy sigh. He locked eyes with her, and Selene couldn’t help but take a step back.
She swallowed as her heart began to pump harder. The look in his eyes reminded her of how Jackson would often look at her. It was not like he loved her or wanted to be with her. But the possessive and frightening look he would get whenever she tried to leave him, even for a moment.
He moved closer, and the second man and the woman stepped into the room.
“Come with us,” the first man said, reaching out toward her. “We’ll keep you safe.”
Selene quickly glanced down at Galen. He still hadn’t moved. She looked back toward the others, but the first man had caught her glance.
Now, he looked down at Galen as well. A low growl rose in his chest.
“He was keeping you here, wasn’t he?” the man growled.
The others now looked down at Galen with growls of their own.
“What?” Selene asked. “No! No, I came here with Galen. He’d never do anything to me.”
The first man looked back at her. That twitching smile had come back to his face.
“It’s okay,” he whispered, “you don’t have to worry about him or Fiona anymore… we won’t let them stand in your way… we’ll protect you now… just like Alpha Alexander wants us to.”
Selene’s eyes widened as the look in his eyes went dark. He turned back to Galen, and that was when Selene saw the pipe in his hand. He raised the pipe and stepped toward Galen. Selene gasped and dove forward without a second thought.
She caught him around the waist and brought him to the floor. She tried to take the pipe from his hand, but he held tight and struggled against her. He then cried out as Selene slammed his face against the concrete and broke his nose.
The pipe fell to the ground but was quickly recovered by the woman. Selene got to her feet and stood over Galen protectively as the first man writhed in pain while clutching his face.
“He’ll ruin everything!” the woman shouted, gritting her teeth. Spit flew from her mouth as she shouted angrily and pointed the pipe at Galen. “Only our Luna can make it right again!”
She turned to look at Selene. She smiled and tilted her head.
“You’ll see…” she said softly. She looked back at Galen on the ground. “We’ll help you see…”
The second man ran at Selene, trying to tackle her. She held her ground as he pushed against her. She locked her hands together and brought them down hard on his back. He gasped and coughed, collapsing as the wind was knocked out of him.
Selene looked up at the woman who raised the pipe above Galen. She tried to move, but the second man, still coughing, grabbed her ankle and held tight.
“Galen!!” Selene cried out as the pipe swung down.
The woman let out a growl as she swung heavily toward Galen. Suddenly, she gasped and cried out as her leg was yanked out from under her, and she fell back against the concrete. Galen let go of her leg and quickly jumped on top of her, wrestling away the pipe before knocking her out.
Selene smiled and then looked back down at the man holding her ankle. He gasped as she brought her knee to his face and knocked him out.
Galen looked at the pipe and sighed. He turned toward Selene.
“Arrgghhh!!” came a garbled shout as the first man ran wildly toward Galen.
Galen pulled back and swung at the man attacking him. The force of the blow sent him back against the wall. He let out a gasp and a groan before he slumped down to the ground.
Selene and Galen left the room after ensuring that all three were still breathing. They locked it and barricaded the door to prevent them from getting out before backup could arrive.
“I thought we checked all the entrances,” Selene said as they crept through the dark halls.
“We did,” Galen replied. Holding his hand up for her to wait as he looked around the corner.
“Then how did they get in?” Selene asked once he had given the signal that they were clear.
“My guess,” he said, “is that one of them had a key. That’s the problem with an attack from the inside. Any one of them could have access to just about anything. That’s why I had to make sure the school was inaccessible to anyone.”
Selene followed closely behind Galen as they made their way back to check on the group they had been with earlier. They ran into several more people who had found their way into the building. At first, they just seemed tired and confused. But once they saw Selene, they suddenly attacked Galen.
He did his best to defend himself without hurting his attackers, but some were relentless, and Galen had little choice.
Each time that they were confronted, the same words were repeated. They insisted to Selene that they would protect her. Treating Galen like an enemy, saying that he would ruin everything, and speaking as though they were still following orders from Alexander.
It left Selene feeling uneasy. She could never imagine something like this, especially not in Summer of all places.
Galen had said that the wolves were lost. He had told her that they couldn’t wait for Alexander any longer. She thought he had just wanted to be Alpha of Summer, that he was being greedy.
Selene looked at Galen as he knelt and talked with a small group. They had made it back to the others. She waited by the door while he checked on each of them. She watched him move from person to person.
He gave each of them a smile and a warm touch, reassuring them that he would keep them safe. She saw Alexander suddenly, the way he reassured his people. The way he would always put them first. Even when he was terrified and unsure of their survival, he always made everyone else around him believe that they would make it.
Selene closed her eyes as she suddenly felt a painful grip on her heart.
755 Playing Nice With Others
Once Galen was sure that the group was safe, he and Selene decided it would be best for them to find where their attackers were coming into the building. It was the only way to ensure the group wouldn’t be found or hurt.
It took a while, but they finally found an unlocked door.
Stepping outside, they knew immediately that they were in the right place. They found two of Galen’s men, soldiers who had been dispatched to the area, unconscious. They weren’t injured. They had just been knocked out.
After waking them, Galen sent them inside the building to protect the others. He and Selene continued to patrol the area.
A long time had passed, and they had gone back and forth between the barriers without finding anyone else.
“Is it possible we already found them all?” Selene asked.
“It’s possible,” Galen replied, scanning the area around them. “Maybe we should head back.”
Selene nodded and turned in the direction they had originally come from. She didn’t notice when Galen stopped walking.
“Did you hear something?” Galen asked, standing several feet behind Selene.
It sounded like something falling, hitting the ground, maybe being kicked.
Selene turned around to ask what he meant, but as she faced him, her eyes widened, and everything around her froze.
A man was running with his hand raised high in the air toward Galen. He held something in that hand, something that glistened in the sunlight.
“Galen!” Selene shouted as she sprinted forward.
Galen turned around, he saw the man, but there was no time to react. The knife was coming down, and it was coming fast.
Selene threw herself against Galen, pushing him out of the way just as the knife came down. She screamed as the blade slashed through the flesh of her jaw before she and Galen hit the ground.
Selene grabbed the wound and curled her body protectively with a painful cry.
“Selene!” Galen shouted.
He reached out and turned her toward him. He saw the blood soaking her shirt and hands as she held the wound tightly.
Galen stood up. The man that had attacked them had stumbled and fallen. He scrambled on the ground toward the knife. Galen growled and charged forward, bringing his knee to the man’s chin and sending him falling back. He picked him up, punching him once, twice, and a third time before the man went limp.
Galen dropped him to the ground. He was still alive, but the healing would take time.
He took a deep breath and turned back to check on Selene. He clenched his jaw when he saw two more had arrived.
The two men stared angrily back at Galen, growling, snarling. Selene had pulled herself back up onto one knee. She took deep breaths and held her hand to her jaw, trying to keep pressure on the wound. Galen moved between her and the remaining men.
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