Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
Dex’s sense of impending actions from Willow mirrored my own.
“I know,”
my muscles tightened.
“Then turn the car around and take her back with us,”
Dex growled.
“Forcing her will only cost us Wyatt and Lori. Even if I forced her to come to my pack, she’ll still scheme to escape at the first chance she gets,”
I explained.
“Then what’s your plan?”
Dex probed, peering out of my eyes.
I remained mute but shifted my gaze away from the road, fixing it on the picture I had taken from her room. A photo of her, Wyatt, and Lori with Alpha Benjamin and his son.
Willow
The following day, I received a $10 million check from one of Reuben’s men. Beta Ken hesitated to accept it, but eventually relented when I mentioned it was for our injured pack members and damages to the pack. Over the next two days, I worked hard to quell rumors about an unknown wolf intruding on the territory, hoping to minimize Alpha Benjamin’s attention to it upon his return. However, what I failed to achieve was leaving the country entirely.
I discovered I couldn’t book a plane ticket and was also barred from departing via transatlantic cruise liners. What shocked me most was my inability to leave in any direction-West, North, or South-each of which was controlled by different influential Alphas, all of whom were friends with Reuben.
Sitting at the dining table, I stared at my coffee, teetering on the edge of fury. I couldn’t see any way to escape the country. Reuben had ensnared me from every possible angle, but I had decided not to give up.
“Wyatt!”
Lori’s voice drew my attention. I looked up to see them darting into the room, closely followed by Beta Ken.
I smiled and stood up, “You two are back. Did you have fun?”
I asked.
“Yes! Uncle Ken took us to the training grounds, mommy!”
Wyatt exclaimed. “There were lots of wolves, fighting and running around, then we went into the woods!”
“After that brother and I caught fish!”
Lori chirped. “Look, mommy, I caught this one!”
She proudly raised a small fish in her hand.
I chuckled. “Well done!”
I used my handkerchief to gently wipe the dirt from their cute little faces, which they’d acquired while playing with Beta Ken’s wolf.
“Thank you, Beta Ken,”
I smiled at him. Lately, he had been taking Wyatt and Lori around on his wolf’s back, allowing me time to focus on my design work and new ideas.
“If you want to thank me, treat me to Wyatt and Lori’s fish,”
he teased.
“Of course,”
I chuckled. “Lunch is ready. You three, go and quickly wash up ”
I started but stopped abruptly when I saw a tall bloody figure entering the door. When curly blonde hair and brown eyes came to my view, I recognized him, “Sky?!”
I gasped in horror.
Beta Ken immediately turned to find the Alpha’s son standing there covered in his own blood, “Alpha what happened to you?”
Beta Ken panicked as we both hurried toward him.
He returned to the pack after a month away, his condition questionable.
“Willow?”
His brown eyes widened in surprise at the sight of me.
“Sky, why are you in this state? What happened?”
My eyes scanned the blood trailing from his head to his cheek. A deep cut marred the side of his face, and his shirt was torn.
“It’s nothing,”
he suddenly flashed a smile at me. “If I had known you’d returned, I wouldn’t have wasted my time on the wolf outside the territory.”
“So, Alpha, you were fighting with a rogue outside?”
Beta Ken frowned. “You should have informed me, Alpha. I would have sent a warrior to deal with it.”
“It’s not a big deal, Beta Ken. I just happened to encounter a rogue on the way. You know how much I despise them. Once I saw it, I had to get rid of it,”
he chuckled, then glanced back at me.
I just forced a smile, sensing Sky’s lie. Despite being only a year older than me, as his best friend, I could easily read his body language.
My gaze shifted to his torn shirt, revealing numerous bite marks on his body, deep and still bleeding. There was no way a rogue could have inflicted such severe wounds on a powerful Alpha like Sky.If I were a betting woman I would say that Sky had been attacked. Simultaneously, I caught the scent of numerous wolves emanating from his body, a scent distinctly different from that of a rogue.
Sky noticed my assessing eyes and quickly turned away. “I’m going to take a shower,”
he hurriedly climbed upstairs then added without looking back, “Beta Ken, I need some rest, so please don’t disturb me. Enjoy your lunch.”
I stood there, a mix of feelings swirling within me. This was the first time Sky avoided talking to me when our eyes met. He had eagerly awaited my return to the pack all these years, yet upon my arrival, he seemed indifferent. What was he hiding? Why the lies?
“Am I overthinking things?”
I questioned myself.
“Mommy, I’m hungry,”
Lori tugged at my clothes, seeking my attention.
“Okay, let’s go clean up then eat,”
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