Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
I murmured under my breath as the rain began to fall.
“Let me love you again ”
“No ”
I gasped running as I heard him again and again.
“Let me Willow ”
“No!!”
I screamed, tears welling up in my eyes. I had to forget it. I should not
Rain started pouring down heavily while I aimlessly ran through the woods just to escape the hunting shadows until Reuben’s roar entered my ears again, “WILLOW!!!”
I skidded to a stop in the mudd when he appeared in front of me. He seemed to have taken another path to catch me. I turned in a different direction but he raced to catch me.
“STOP!! DIDN’T YOU HEAR ME?!”
he growled as the rain soaked the both of us completely, “WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY FROM ME?”
he grabbed my arms and stared deep into my eyes. “PLEASE GIVE ME A CHANCE GIVE ME A CHANCE AT REDEMPTION ”
“Redemption?”
I broke out of his grip, raised my hand and slapped him hard across the face. The sound of the slap echoed in the woods, slowly mixing with the sound of rain, “YOU WANT REDEMPTION? REDEMPTION FOR WHAT?!”
I screamed.
Reuben looked at me in silence as my fresh tears mixed with rain, “You expect redemption for refusing to accept our babies six years ago?”
I asked, recalling the memory of him tossing the pregnancy test at me. “Or do you expect redemption for accusing me of cheating?”
I took a step closer to him and poked him hard in the chest with my finger, “Or do you want redemption for betraying me, Reuben?”
my voice had become a whisper.
Reuben’s eyes shook at my words, I watched as his eyes grew slightly teary. His actions in the past came crashing down on his heart as he stared into my eyes, broken.
“I want redemption for all of the sins I committed against you,”
he whispered, taking a step closer to me slowly. “I want to be punished for all my crimes ”
a tear rolled down his cheek as he put his shaking hand over my cheek. “I want to love you again ”
he paused and said with his wolf, “I love you Willow.”
My eyes widened at his confession. All the tears that I had been fighting hard to hold back began flowing down like a river over his words. “I love you, Willow ”
his confession brushed my heart, touched my soul and awoked that forbidden feeling that I had sealed away six years ago.
“I don’t believe you,”
I took a step back as I stared into his eyes.
“Willow ”
Reuben tried to grab my hand but I pulled away.
“I am not falling for the same trick twice,”
I shook my head.
“Willow, trust me I love you.”
“But I hate you,”
I cut him off, stopping a reasonable distance away from him and said while looking deep into his eyes, “I hate you, Alpha Reuben,”
“No, you don’t”
Reuben stretched out his hand and pulled me closer, until my breasts bumped into his hard chest, “You don’t hate me, Willow.”
“I do.”
“You love me,”
he whispered, quickening my heartbeat.
“I don’t!”
I yelled, shoving him away. “I don’t love you or trust in your love. I just hate you ”
I declared then turned to leave with tears in my eyes.
“If you don’t then I will make you fall in love with me, Willow!”
Reuben warned, standing in where I had left him. I did not turn to look at him or I stopped. “If you hate me then I will chase after you until you forgive me even if I have to wait until my dying breath.”
My feet paused of their own accord, hearing the possessive obsession in his words. I clenched my fists the once again lifted my feet to continue walking but suddenly I felt Reuben’s arm wrap around my waist from behind, “I will struggle, bleed, and even die to get you back, Willow,”
his chest rested against mine as he whispered into my ear from behind. “But there is no way that I will ever willingly let you go, mate ”
Willow
“I will struggle, bleed, and even die to get you back, Willow. But there is no way that I will ever willingly let you go, mate ”
After being called his mate for the first time six years, Ceri was no longer under my control. All our past memories crushed the both of us under their wait to the point where I was able to break out of his possessive hold, give control to Ceir by shifting into my wolf, and run back to the packhouse. The guests had returned to their homes, but once I entered the packhouse I found Ella and Oran waiting there.
Ella stood up at the sight of Ceri, “Willow can we talk?”
she asked, but the mere glimpse of her raised pain in my heart as the pack members’ claim of her unavoidable marriage to Reuben burrowed a bleeding hole in my chest. Ignoring her like she was invisible, I passed by her, and climbed the stairs to my bedroom. Once I entered my room, I shifted back and closed the door behind before scumbling to tears.
His stubbornness in never letting me go was incinerating my soul, when he was the one that had not wanted to hold on to me that day six years ago. His obsession with redemption for the crimes that he had committed against me could never be undone. It was compounded by his oath to reclaim me when he was already going to be bound to another woman, which made my heart bleed. His confession of love and him asking me to let him love me, when we are going to reject each other, tore at my heart.
I closed my eyes and lay on the floor for hours until the night fell. My tears had long since dried but my heart and soul were as cold as the darkness in the sky. I had locked myself in this room not even wanting to face the memories of the day that I had recognized Reuben as my soulmate, then afterwards we had made love in that car. Slowly those precious memories mixed with my nightmares that had reared their ugly heads as my unexpected pregnancy burned my whole world down to cinders.
When the first rays of morning light filtered through the curtains, I got out of the bed and stood in front of the mirror inspecting myself. One thing was for certain I could not trust Reuben. Believing Reuben was just going to lead me to another heartbreak. I could not give him another chance or I was going to end up in the same pathetic condition I was in six years ago. I could not let my heart follow that forbidden path that was bound to end in rejection.
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