Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
he raised his eyebrows.
“Elder Frank,”
someone said.
“What?!”
Walter noticed the 180-degree change in Bix’s expression as soon as Elder Frank’s name was mentioned.
“Fuck! Where is Elder Frank and where is Reuben?!”
Bix yelled, his suddenly aggressive and wild attitude scaring everyone around them.
Sensing that something was not right, Walter walked over to Bix and asked, momentarily forgetting their prior hostility, “What’s wrong?”
Bix opened his mouth, but no words came out as he stared at the packhouse that the Elder had disappeared into with Reuben, his eyes wide with shock.
Six years ago, Bix’s father held the esteemed position of being the Gamma of the Emerald Bright Pack while it was under Alpha Louis’s leadership. This role entrusted him with the crucial responsibility of overseeing the entire security of the pack, which included monitoring the CCTV cameras strategically positioned throughout the pack territory.
Aside from Bix’s father, only Bix himself had access to this security system. It was through this access that Bix had stumbled upon the distressing footage of Willow being abused and harassed by Elder Frank.
Every night, he would meticulously edit the footage of the area around Willow’s house whenever Reuben paid her a visit. However, his routine took a drastic turn when he discovered the shocking footage of her being mistreated. He knew he had to do something about it.
With no authority himself and Reuben’s current absence, he made the difficult decision to confide in his father about the Elder’s reprehensible behavior that had crossed the line. Unfortunately, even his father, who had his own sense of justice, found his hands tied in this situation. The Elder involved happened to be one of the royals, making the predicament even more complex and challenging to address.
Bix was stunned when his father instructed him to handle the matter discreetly and delete the incriminating clip himself.
Unbeknownst to Bix, the Elder had returned directly to the palace to confront Reuben, revealing that he had seen him with Willow and was aware of their relationship. Hoping to exploit this vulnerability, the Elder aimed to manipulate Reuben. However, his scheme took an unexpected turn, the Elder hadn’t realized that Willow wasn’t Reuben’s weakness; she was his source of strength.
“Did you tell my father about her?”
Reuben’s voice cut through the tension, his gaze piercing Frank’s soul.
Pressed mercilessly against the wall by Reuben, Frank felt the weight of impending doom. With his neck in danger of being snapped in two, he struggled to find his voice amidst the fear and pain. “N no ”
he managed to choke out, his breaths ragged and desperate, realizing the enormity of his mistake in that harrowing moment.
Reuben released his grip on Frank’s neck, causing Frank’s body to plummet to the floor with a violent thud. Gasping for air and coughing uncontrollably, Frank came to the realization that if Reuben hadn’t loosened his grip in time, he would have been dead. He had just narrowly escaped death’s door, the sudden shift in his circumstances left him reeling.
How had things changed so suddenly? He had intended to exploit Reuben’s secret relationship with an Omega to his advantage, but now he found himself on the brink of death. As the terror and reality of his pathetic condition sank in, Frank flinched at the sight of Reuben squatting down in front of him.
“Now that you’ve discovered her, let me share a secret with you, Elder Frank,”
Reuben’s voice resonated low and deep, sending a chill down the old man’s spine. Frank couldn’t tear his gaze away from Reuben’s dangerous wolf-like eyes, his own wolf quivering in fear.
“That woman is not an ordinary woman,”
Reuben continued, each word weighted with significance.
“She is my treasure,”
he declared, his voice unwavering.
“She is my life,”
Reuben affirmed, his conviction palpable.
“She is my soulmate,”
he concluded, his words carrying a weight that reverberated through the tense air between them.
Reuben’s revelation left Frank paralyzed with shock. His eyes widened like an owl’s, his mouth gaping in horror. Soulmate?! The realization hit him like a ton of bricks, draining the color from his already wounded and bloody face.
The woman he had labeled a whore was actually the other half of the royal bloodline?! It seemed impossible, yet the truth stared him in the face, mocking his ignorance. Suddenly, memories of his own actions flooded his mind like a tidal wave.
The slap, the insults, the despicable acts of molestation he had inflicted upon Willow came crashing back, and he felt a surge of panic.
Thankfully, he realized that he hadn’t let any of his atrocious actions slip to Reuben earlier. However, standing before the imposing Alpha, Frank couldn’t shake the feeling that he might as well have surrendered his own soul to the devil after his reprehensible deeds.
“Now that you know all my secrets ”
Reuben paused, wiping the blood from his hand on the trembling Elder’s royal robe. “From now on, if anyone-anyone, including my father-finds out about Willow or my bond with her, I will come and find you.”
“If even the slightest scratch appears on her body, then I will come and find you,”
Reuben’s voice held a dangerously sharp edge.
“If you ever show your face around her, even accidentally, I will come and find you,”
Reuben declared firmly, his gaze piercing into the old man’s fearful eyes. “Do you understand?”
Frank nodded his head repeatedly, his head moving like it was on a spring, despite the pain coursing through him. He was so terrified of Reuben that, at that moment, if Reuben had demanded his heart in exchange for his life, Frank would have willingly torn it from his chest without hesitation to save himself.
Only Frank knew the sheer terror of surviving the beast’s claws that day. From then on, he made sure to never cross paths with Reuben nor did he utter a word about their encounter. With the blessing of the Alpha King, he swiftly transferred his job to that of a pacemaker, a role that kept him away from the Kingdom and beyond scrutiny unless the King personally wished otherwise.
Running inside the packhouse alongside Bix, Walter questioned, “So what’s the problem now? Wasn’t that issue already settled, he never disclosed Reuben and Willow’s relationship?”
Bix shook his head, “Actually, the problem is before my father deleted that clip from the CCTV footage that day I had already saved a copy of it. When Reuben returned to the pack two months later, I showed him that clip.”
Walter was stunned into silence as they continued running, that was when the realization hit him like a ton of bricks as they approached Reuben’s office. “Does this mean that all these years, Reuben knew about Frank’s actions towards Willow, and he had been waiting for the Elder’s return like a snake hidden in the grass?”
Bix nodded, “The Elder actually walked in the devil’s den!”
he said as both he and Walter stormed into Reuben’s office only to freeze in shock at the sight of Elder Frank’s body partially strung up in the middle of the room with a large iron rod stabbed through his throat. His entire face was disfigured, his intestines were hanging out, and his figure could barely be called human.
In front of him a bloody Reuben stood leaning against his desk, a smoking imperial decree lay burning between them. Bix rushed into the room in panic, “Reuben, you burnt the imperial decree!”
There was no one that did not know the consequences of disobeying or denying the imperial decree let alone burning it!
“So what?”
Reuben raised his dark eyes at him. “Nothing can force me to marry someone that is not Willow,”
his eyes filled with obsessive craziness.
His words left Walter confused, “What do you mean?! Did you not agree to marry Ella, your wedding date is fixed for this coming full moon?”
“Who the fuck said that?”
Reuben frowned. “Why would I fucking agree to such nonsense?! I have Willow.”
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