Chapter 186 – Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)

Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)

He was about to give up when he turned around, and she popped up shouting, “Boo!”

Axel jumped back, and the girl laughed.

He wanted to be mad, but the sparkle in her eyes as she laughed just made him smile. He couldn’t see them clearly in the moonlight, but now he saw they were a deep brown. Warm and light, with flecks of gold.

He smiled at her.

“Is it that funny to scare me?” he asked.

“It is!” she laughed.

“As long as it makes you smile,” he said softly.

“What’s going on here?” a voice called from behind him.

Axel saw the look on the girl’s face before he turned around. She was scared. He wanted to protect her; this was his chance to show her he could.

He turned to face the man behind him.

“We are playing together,” Axel stated firmly. “We weren’t doing anything wrong.”

The man that stood before him was short compared to most of the grown men. His hair was brown and curly. He had a mean look in his eye that quickly disappeared as a grin grew wide across his lips.

“Oh?” the man said. “Well, I had no idea that you had made a new friend.”

His comment was pointed at the girl.

“We just met, not friends, he doesn’t even know my name!” she said quickly. “I promise!”

‘Not friends?’ Axel wondered to himself sadly. Was he the only one having fun? Did she not feel happy when she was near him like he did her?

“It seems this young man feels quite differently,” the man said with a dark smile that made Axel nervous.

Axel looked back at his small friend, she was looking away, she was nervous or scared, he couldn’t tell which.

“Well, young man,” the Old Man said, “we were about to have some tea, won’t you join us?”

“He doesn’t like tea!” the girl shouted, jumping in front of Axel. “We can have our tea alone! I promise I won’t run off anymore, I won’t follow the smell!”

Axel didn’t understand why she didn’t want to be his friend anymore, why she suddenly didn’t like him.

“The smell?” the Old Man asked. “What smell?”

Axel and the girl looked at each other. Both of them knew without a word that they didn’t want to tell the man the truth.

“Ah… I see,” the Old Man said. “You have a secret together.”

“No…!” the girl gasped.

“So, you followed each other’s scent among all these other wolves?” he said. His voice and expression made it seem like he was happy or impressed. But the dark look in his eyes made it clear he wasn’t. “How precious.”

Axel wanted to leave, but he wanted her to come with him. He thought about reaching for her hand. Pulling her along whether she wanted to go or not.

“Finding a precious friend is something to celebrate,” the Old Man said. “Now, I must insist we have that tea together. To celebrate.”

The Old Man took the girl’s hand, and Axel knew he wouldn’t be able to pull her away. All he could do was stay with her and try to keep her safe.

He led them to a room not far from where they were playing, he took the girl with him to prepare the tea. Axel thought about running, finding his mother, and bringing her back here. But he didn’t want to leave the girl.

When they came back, she smiled at him once, but Axel could see that she was forcing it.

“Please, young man,” the Old Man said. “Take a bite, I made it myself.”

The girl held up a plate with two small cakes. Axel took one, and she took the other. They ate them, Axel thought his tasted bitter, he only ate a bite.

As the man poured the tea, the girl leaned beside Axel’s ear. She held out her hand and whispered to him.

“My name is Alice,” she said quietly. “Eat this. To remind you of me.”

Axel opened his hand, and she placed a small chocolate in it. He looked up at her, and she smiled. He felt a warmth spreading in his chest.

“Thank you, Alice,” he said.

He noticed it then, her eyes reminded him of chocolate. And the smell that hung in the air between them, it too was like chocolate.

Axel smiled as he placed the treat in his mouth happily. Enjoying the sweet richness as Alice smiled back at him.

“Let’s all drink up now!” the Old Man interrupted. “To new friends.”

Alice let out a sigh and picked up her cup.

Axel did the same.

“To new friends,” he said, lifting the cup to his mouth.

Axel set down his cup. He felt dizzy for a moment. He looked around, confused as to why he was in this room alone.

He looked down; the cup was gone.

‘What cup?’ he wondered.

He walked towards the door; he was surprised to see someone standing there.

“I heard you were looking for someone to play with,” the boy standing at the door said.

Axel was confused, but the boy wasn’t wrong. He had come to the Blood Moon with his parents, but there were so few children here that he had been bored the entire time.

“Yes!” he said quickly.

The boy smiled down at him, his burnt orange eyes sparkled with delight.

“You can play with me.”

Axel was happy to have found a new friend.

He hid in the log; he had rolled in the dirt and rubbed the leaves against his skin. He hoped it was enough to cover his scent. Axel heard the soft footfalls of the wolf. He covered his mouth and closed his eyes, hoping to make himself small and unnoticeable.

He failed..

The sharp teeth bit down on his leg. Axel screamed as he was dragged out of the log. He tried desperately to get away, but the large black wolf with tufts of white had him pinned down.

Axel kicked and kicked. He tried to swing his arms. He tried to shift, but he had only done it a few times, and he wasn’t able to force it now.

The wolf growled at him. It backed away.

Axel stared at it, trying to figure out what was happening. It stared back at him with eyes like flames burning into his soul.

The boy had told him they could be friends. He wanted to play a game with him. All Axel had to do was get away from the black wolf in the woods.

He thought it was a game.

Axel ran, and the wolf gave chase.

The black wolf was faster than Axel. He didn’t get far before he was pounced on and bit at. Axel tried desperately to get away. He tried to crawl, kick, and scream.

He managed to kick it hard in the chest, and the wolf let out a whimper. But it dove at Axel with anger. Opening its jaws and clamping down on his face.

When Corrine and Wyatt found him, Axel’s face was covered in blood. He was in shock and barely able to speak. They rushed him to the doctor, and they were barely able to save his eye.

From that day forward he had hidden his scar, ashamed of how easily he had been fooled by someone wanting to be his ‘friend’.

He had never seen the boy or the wolf again, but sometimes, he saw them in his nightmares.

Axel woke in his hospital bed with a gasp. He lurched forward and threw up the few contents of his stomach.

No longer a child, now a full grown man, he took deep, ragged breaths as the memories of Alice settled over his mind.

In a hidden room, of a hidden building, in an unknown location. Alice’s mind was cycling through its own memories.

She was small, only eight years old.

Holden had made her new friend, the boy who smelled sweet, drink the yucky tea. He had said they weren’t meant to be friends and that he would find a new friend for the Sweet Boy.

She knew he lied.

Holden had promised that the Sweet Boy would be safe, that he would get a new friend, as long as Alice stayed away from him. But she saw the other boy that Holden had talked to. He didn’t seem like a nice friend.

Alice followed the boys, she watched them sneaking away to the forest. The boy with the orange eyes told the Sweet Boy to close his eyes and count.

She thought they were playing a game.

But then she saw the boy change, he shifted into his wolf, and he hid and watched her Sweet Boy.

This wasn’t a nice game at all.

Alice watched from the trees as Sweet Boy found a place to hide and as the black wolf followed him there. Although she cried out when he was bit, she couldn’t stand back anymore when she saw the blood.

She grabbed a stick, and she hit the black wolf again and again. Finally, he growled at her, and she ran. Hoping that her friend would be ok on his own.

Alice was a good runner. She had run a lot.

She made sure to take the black wolf far away from the Sweet Boy she had met.

The wolf was fast, and it was angry.

He caught her, and she screamed as he bit her leg. She cried out as she tumbled down the hill hitting her arms and legs and shoulders on the rocks and the trees all the way down.

Alice saw the wolf coming closer and closer. The fiery eyes seemed to glow with delight as she let out soft cries.

Her body hurt, and her head felt fuzzy. But she still smiled, knowing that the Sweet Boy was far away.

Alice was surprised when she woke up in the hospital. Holden ran to her and cried. He told her how happy he was that she was ok and asked why she had run off.

She told him she knew he lied.

Holden got very quiet. He told her that the Winter boy would take her away from him, and he would miss her too much to let her go.

Alice promised to stay, vowed never to leave with the Sweet Boy from Winter if Holden kept his promise, and kept the boy safe.

“Where have you been the last couple of days?” Bell asked as Axel entered the house.

Axel lifted his head to see Bell and Selene sitting on the couch of his family home.

“Training, patrolling, the usual,” he replied.

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