Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
Clara’s eyes widened, and she immediately began to look around the area. Though her excitement quickly dampened.
“This doesn’t look right…” she said quietly.
“So, you know what it should look like?” Selene asked. “Good, that’s what I need. I need you to help me find the site of Loki’s last stand.”
Clara was able to come up with a general radius of where the burial mound should have been. She used what she could remember from the stories and the map that Selene had brought.
Selene herself offered a few clues just from the story her father had shared.
They made their way through the trees: it was a half-day hike from where they had parked the truck, but Clara was sure they were on the right path.
“So, what drew your interest to the fae?” Selene asked.
“I’m not really sure,” Clara said. “I guess maybe just the fact that they are our reason for being?”
Selene chuckled.
“Wouldn’t that mean our lives have no purpose?” she asked. “Since they are all gone?”
“Huh…” Clara answered, stopping for a moment. “Ok, well, that’s depressing. Fine, they aren’t our reason for being, but they are directly tied to the creation of our species. That alone seems like a good reason to try and understand them, right?”
“There’s nothing wrong with being interested in them, Clara. I used to want to know all about them myself,” Selene said. “I felt drawn to their secrets and mysteries.”
“What made you stop being interested?” Clara asked.
“I’m not sure I ever stopped being interested,” Selene replied. “But studying them required time I didn’t have. I was too busy trying to earn my place in the Berserkers or my duties. As a result, I had very little free time, and what I did have was given to Jackson.”
“I guess you must have really loved him….” Clara commented quietly.
“I really thought I did,” Selene replied. She turned and looked at Clara. “Do you have a mate?”
Clara shook her head.
“Have you ever had feelings for anyone?” Selene asked..
Clara blushed and looked away.
Selene smiled.
“That, right there,” she said. “I never knew that feeling.”
Clara looked back at Selene, who gave her a kind smile.
“Before I met Jackson, I had never met anyone I was romantically interested in. No crushes, no boyfriends,” she said. “I met him and felt this connection right away, so I assumed it was what love was supposed to feel like.”
“What did it feel like?” Clara asked.
“I liked him,” Selene replied honestly. “I felt comfortable with him. For a long time, he really was a great guy.”
Selene thought back on her time with Jackson. The early days had been good. He felt like a close friend that she could trust. However, it had taken them three months to have their first kiss.
Before the Blood Moon, before Alexander, their relationship had been good. But it had never felt anything like what she felt with Alexander.
“It wasn’t until I met Alexander that I really… well… that I understood what it meant to be drawn to someone,” Selene laughed.
“I knew Winter was pretty old fashioned in the mating stuff, but I didn’t realize it was quite that far gone,” Clara said.
“I’m not sure you can blame the whole of Winter for my lack of experience,” Selene laughed. “I had a good friend that had a new crush every week. I was just more focused on other things.”
Clara nodded.
“I kind of hope I don’t find my mate,” she said.
“Why?” Selene asked.
“Well…” Clara began, tilting her head a little awkwardly. “I don’t know how open-minded the Goddess is.”
“What do you mean?” Selene asked.
“I’m just not sure how I would handle it if my mate were a boy,” Clara said. “After I have spent most of my life coming to terms with my preference for the fairer sex.”
“I could see how that would be problematic,” Selene laughed. “Well, I hope you find your mate and that she is as great as you are.”
“Thank you,” Clara smiled.
They chatted a bit about Clara’s experience in the human world. Selene was quite interested in hearing about all the places she had gone to and things she had done.
But as they got closer to the area that Clara had predicted, Selene began to grow cautious. There was something strange about this part of the woods.
She put her hand up for Clara to stop moving. Looking around for movement, she could feel a presence near them.
Selene tapped the button on her shirt. The wired mesh grew over her body, wrapping her in her armor. Quietly Clara took a few steps back and positioned herself behind a tree where she could watch without getting in the way.
Selene reached her hand to her back, feeling the familiar tug. The small blades took shape in her hands.
She crouched down and slowly moved forward. It didn’t take long to find the source of her bad feeling.
Not far from where they had stopped, Selene caught sight of one of the creatures she had fought the night of the fae attack.
This one was tall, at least six feet. It was thin with an extended round belly and a long face full of moss and leaves that gave the impression of thick curly hair. A thin black tongue like that of a snake peeked out from its mouth. It shuffled back and forth but didn’t seem to be getting anywhere. Finally, she noticed that it had a strange and severe limp. Looking closer, it was clearly missing a large chunk of its left leg.
Just past where the creature shuffled back and forth, Selene recognized something else. One of the treants, the beast, was gravely injured. All but one of its tentacled roots had already been hacked away, and its lower half was broken into jagged pieces.
She wondered how it had managed to get this far from the battle, had it dragged itself? Perhaps the smaller creature had carried it? The fight had been so long ago. How did no one know it was here?
“Interesting…” Clara whispered.
Selene turned to see that she had moved up not far from her.
“I theorized that the fae had come to Winter as opposed to the other packs because of the burial mounds. Now it seems I might have been right.”
“You think there are more?” Selene asked.
“I would guess so,” Clara said, “I don’t know for sure, but these two look like they probably stopped due to injuries, but they are definitely headed towards Loki’s last stand.”
Clara peeked out at the two creatures ahead of them.
“I think I see some tracks past them. But, honestly, I would say the safe bet is that we will find a lot more as we get closer.”
Selene sighed.
“Guess that ends our adventure,” she said. “These two I could handle on my own, maybe a couple more. But any more than that, and we wouldn’t survive.”
“Yea, I’m no use either… I am very much a lab rat, not a field mouse,” Clara added.
“Let’s go, quietly.”
They made their way back to the truck. The moon was high in the sky by the time they found it, but it didn’t seem that any of the faes had followed them.
A few hours later, Clara was asleep in Selene’s bed. While Selene was waking Axel and her parents.
Corrine turned on a pot of coffee while Selene and the two alphas got comfortable in the living room.
“What’s this about?” Wyatt asked with a heavy yawn.
“We need to organize a few teams of our best fighters and scouts,” Selene began.
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