Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
I gave Mia a puzzled look, but her expression suddenly changed. She looked away from me and remained silent. She was definitely hiding something from me.
“Mia,”
I called her.
“Hm?”
She looked up at me.
“Since I’ve returned to the pack, I haven’t seen Alpha Louis around. I’ve only seen Alpha in the mall one day. I was honestly afraid of his reaction when he saw Wyatt, Lori, Reuben, and me together, but Alpha’s response was very strange to me. I understand he passed his position to Reuben, but this is still his home, right? So why doesn’t he live here? And why does no pack member talk about him like he doesn’t exist? I wonder why,”
I expressed all the doubts and observations that had been nagging at me.
Mia’s lips parted slightly, and she gave me a guilty look for a moment before biting her lip and shaking her head. “There are a few things that we’re not allowed to talk about, Willow. And Alpha Louis is one of those topics. I’m afraid you’ll have to uncover the past on your own,”
her voice was low and filled with fear.
For some reason, when she said it, my heart was unsettled.
Reuben
Fiddling with an unopened cigarette packet in my hand, a habit I no longer indulged in but still found comfort in the familiarity of, I stared at Bix. His eyes were slightly red as he sat across from me in silence for a long moment having just finished our three hour long meeting.
“Thank you for not burning down the Opal Moon Pack and for not harming Ella,”
he murmured.
“Bix, you’re not confusing me with some big-hearted man who cares about innocent people that would’ve been caught in the destruction of the Opal Moon Pack, are you?”
I lazily leaned back in my chair.
“How can I misunderstand when I am aware of every aspect of your personality? After Alpha Adam conspired against Willow, you were ready to destroy every living thing that resided within his pack, there was no reason for you to change your decision. That much I am aware of. Only a kind-hearted woman like Willow could misunderstand your intentions, and I’m sure she did after you chose not to burn that pack to the ground. However, I do want to know why you changed your mind,”
Bix questioned.
“I didn’t destroy the Opal Moon Pack because of Oran,”
I revealed, and Bix’s expression changed to one of surprise.
“What do you mean?”
“Do you really think that Oran would have let you talk to me about pardoning Alpha Adam and not burning his pack?”
I unwrapped the packet of cigarettes neatly, closely observing his changing expression. Our eyes locked for a moment, then he looked away, understanding that while arguing with him, Oran had already mind-linked me about the situation and that’s why I had changed my decision.
“Idiot, he always wants to act like a hero. Who asked him to do that?”
Bix grumbled.
The corner of my lips twitched slightly at the sight of him trying his best to frown but failing. “True, Oran is an idiot but only when he wants to be,”
I remarked, instantly catching Bix’s attention.
He looked away from me again, pretending to be casual as if he didn’t understand anything. “Then what about Ella? Why did you let her go?”
he murmured.
“Because of you,”
I casually replied.
Bix cocked his brows in confusion, “Me?”
“To repay a favor that I have owed you for years,”
I explained. “I finally found the right moment to repay you by letting Ella go.”
“Reuben why the hell are you talking about that day?”
Bix clenched his fists. “Why the hell do you want to repay me for something that I’ve been detesting myself for years over?”
I closed my eyes and leaned back against the chair, trying to calm my mind in silence. We were all messed up in our own ways. With my wolf hearing, I could hear Wyatt and Lori playing on the playground outside, and Willow humming downstairs. I just wanted to get back to her, but I had a lot of work to catch up on that had piled up during my absence.
Opening my eyes, I sat up straight to focus on finishing the work as soon as possible, so I could go down to Willow. “What about the mysterious attacks? Have any more taken place while I was gone?”
“No, the attacks have stopped once again, and Wade Moon was never attacked even though we suspected they would be the next target,”
Bix said, rubbing a hand over his face to shake off our earlier conversation. “But I don’t think Wade Moon is doing well,”
he added.
“What about Wade Moon?”
My ears perked up at the mention of them. The last time, Willow’s panic over Wade Moon during Thanksgiving had been triggering for me. She loved them as if they were her blood relatives. It annoyed me, but the thought of seeing Willow cry over their destruction was unbearable.
“Well, there was news that the second-ranking packs were meeting about the mysterious attacks. Alpha Benjamin attended the meeting but withdrew before its conclusion. He’s no longer participating in any meetings related to the attacks. While the other second-ranking packs are forming armies to confront the attacker if they show themselves, Wade Moon Pack is remaining passive, even after losing all the packs along their borders,”
Bix informed me, a fact that also bothered me.
That was indeed a strange behavior from Wade Moon. I tapped my finger on the desk as Alpha Benjamin’s face crossed my mind, once again I felt like I had seen that old Alpha somewhere before. Some blurry images flashed through my mind, but they were fleeting.
Lost in thought, I was brought back to the present when Bix continued speaking. “In your absence, we’ve completed our investigation into the mysterious incidents and fires that have been occurring,”
he stated, taking the cigarette packet from my hand and lighting a cigarette for himself. “Since you’ve given up on them, I can’t let them go to waste,”
he murmured.
Taking a deep breath, I immediately looked at the conclusions that Oran and Bix had come up with.
“So you’re saying that the three packs surrounding Wade Moon Pack caught fire at the same time?”
I raised my eyebrows at Bix after reading.
He nodded, spreading the reports neatly for me to examine. “Not only did they catch fire at the same time, but the pack members also simultaneously disappeared. When the other packs raided the area to catch the culprit, they never found a single pack member or dead body,”
he explained. Pausing, he placed a photo of the chared rogue bodies in front of me.
“If what you are saying is true then the attacker had to have been in all three packs at the same time to wipe them out, which is impossible unless he is a ghost,”
I remarked.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.