Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
“That fucker does indeed seem ghost because it really happened,”
Bix breathed out, “But when that fire occurred at the abandoned packhouse outside of Miami, the dead bodies of those rogues were found for the first time. That’s not the usual style of this mystery attacker. It only means that ”
“It means that no one is dying in these fires,”
Oran entered my office with a handful of documents. I raised my eyes at him.
“How can you say that?”
I asked, puzzled by Oran’s assertion.
He took a seat beside Bix. “I sent samples of the ash and soil from all the packs that were attacked and burned,”
Oran spread out the papers in front of me for examination. “The reports are in, they indicate that there was no trace of blood or human remains in the soil of those packs,”
he explained. I scrutinized the reports from each pack, confirming that indeed, there was no evidence of blood or human remains in the ash.
“What are you thinking, Reuben?”
Bix and Oran looked at me expectantly as I calmly went through all the reports.
Placing the papers back on the table, I looked at Oran. “What about the footage from the camera I had installed in the woods outside Miami? Did you retrieve it?”
“I did. It’s been waiting for you on your desk the whole time,”
Oran gestured towards the pen drive resting on my desk.
“It must have captured the attacker’s face!”
Bix eagerly exclaimed, walking around my desk to stand beside me as Oran plugged the pen drive into my laptop. “I can’t wait to see who it is.”
Oran stood on my other side as the three of us fixed our attention on the video playing on the screen. My face appeared as I installed the camera then shifted into my wolf form, dashing away into the woods to chase after Willow. Then the view showed dead wolves lying around. Nothing else happened for the next couple of seconds, making Bix impatient. “Fast forward it,”
he urged.
Oran nodded, but just as his finger was about to press the button, I grabbed his wrist. “Wait ”
He watched as my eyes sharpened on the screen, then shifted his gaze back to the screen, only to furrow his brow in confusion. “What the hell is happening?”
All of their eyes roamed over the screen, where the trees seemed to have stopped moving and the air had ceased blowing, as if the screen had frozen. Suddenly, a strong wind started to blow as someone’s shadow was cast over the ground.
“It’s a man!”
Bix growled at the shadow. My eyes sharpened as I tried to make out the shadow in my mind. It began to move, soon the person’s face could be seen as he stepped into the camera’s range.
A pair of shining shoes briefly appeared on the screen. For some reason Dex started to stir in my mind, then the shoes abruptly stopped. They turned slightly towards the camera, almost as if the person were staring directly at it or even laughing, before taking another step forward into the camera’s range. Just as his face was about to be revealed, the footage abruptly blacked out.
“What the hell!”
Bix growled, attempting to replay the video multiple times, but it remained corrupted.
Oran shook his head in shock. “Why does it feel like he knew about the camera, and he’s the one who destroyed it? Without touching it?”
“But he intentionally destroyed only the part where his face could be seen,”
Bix stated. “And if you ask me, I honestly think he did it intentionally.”
Both of them exchanged a look after expressing their thoughts, then turned to look at me as I continued to stare at the screen, my fists clenched tightly.
“Reuben, what’s wrong?”
Oran asked, concern evident in his voice.
“I found it,”
I murmured, my nails digging into my palm.
“Found what?”
“The other piece of her torn handkerchief,”
I glanced back at the screen with Dex in my eyes. I saw it even for a second. Tied around his hand!
Getting up from my seat, I walked downstairs to where Willow was dozing at the dining table, waiting for me to have dinner. I entered the room and scooped her up in my arms, carrying her to my bedroom.
Placing her gently on the bed, I stared down at her beautiful face and brushed the hair back from her face.
Slowly, all the rogues attacking in Alpha meeting, the mysterious attacks, and the rogues kidnapping Willow started to link together in my mind before it all connected with . Willow.
My gaze shifted to my mark on her neck. I climbed on the bed hovering over her small figure, tracing a finger over the mark, earning a soft seductive moan in response. If I wasn’t mistaken, these mysterious attacks were happening because of Willow.
Or maybe for Willow.
My mind went blank when I realized that man was after Willow. He wanted Willow. He wanted something of mine.
The mere thought of Willow being stolen from me, awoke the sleeping beast that had been chained by Willow’s love for the past ten years inside me.
My claws suddenly came out, sinking into the mattress beside Willow, tearing it slowly as I felt Dex taking me over as if I would shift at any moment.
“Reuben ”
Suddenly Willow’s voice entered my ears, pulling me instantly out of the darkness that I had begun to fall into.
Her whisper echoed in the depths of mind, heart, and soul as Ceri made a connection with Dex soothing me. My claws returned to normal and eyes returned normal as Willow propped herself up slightly on her elbows.
“You are back,”
she smiled, raising a hand to softly touch my cheek.
I blinked at her loving smile and beautiful eyes that stole my heart once again and rubbed my cheek against her palm. “Yes, I am back,”
I slowly laid down beside her.
“I was waiting for you to have dinner,”
she turned to face me, “I almost thought you would not return and I would have to keep waiting,”
she pouted, which made me chuckle. After so many years, I got to see her pouting, it was absolutely adorable.
“Sorry for making you wait,”
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
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