Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
Axel jumped back from the railing.
“Selene, what the hell…” he said in surprise. “Trying to kill me?”
“If I wanted to, we both know I could before you noticed me.”
“That’s not reassuring,” Axel said, shaking his head. “Why would you say that? Someone asks, ‘are you trying to kill me’? You say ‘No’. You don’t say creepy shit.”
Selene raised her eyebrows and laughed.
“My bad,” she said. “No, I wasn’t trying to kill you, Axel.”
“See? Not hard, right?”
Selene giggled as she stretched her arms out over the railing.
“What are you doing here, big brother?” she asked.
“What do you mean?” he replied. “Why can’t I be here? Why does there have to be a reason? How’d you find me anyway?”
Axel leaned back on the railing.
“Some of the scouts saw you walking towards the woods. They said you looked a little lost,” she answered. “This is your thinking spot. This is where you usually go if something is bothering you.”
“Nothing’s bothering me,” he grunted.
Selene sighed.
“Fine,” she said. “I don’t have time to drag it out of you. If you want to tell me, you know where I am. I just came to remind you to be on your best behavior tonight and tomorrow with the Summer wolves.”
Axel growled in response.
“Knock it off!” she growled back. “You don’t have to like them, and you don’t have to approve of Alexander and me. But this is about Bell, it’s her wedding, and she deserves nothing but the best from all of us.”
Axel huffed but nodded his head in agreement before resting his chin on his crossed arm, leaning on the railing.
Selene turned to leave.
“Selene?” he called out.
“Yea?” she replied from the top of the stairs.
“You and Alexander…“ he began. “If, for some reason, you couldn’t feel the bond… do you think you would still know that he was your mate?”
“What a random question….” Selene said.
Axel sighed.
“Just forget it.”
“No, it’s just you’ve never been curious about the mate bond before,” she said, moving back towards him. “Is my big brother getting antsy to find his mate?”
“I said forget it, just drop it.”
“Now that you’re Alpha, you want your Luna? Is that what this is?” Selene asked with a smile.
“Seriously, just go away.”
Selene laughed, and then she looked closer. She saw that whatever he was thinking of, was upsetting him.
“Wait,” she said hesitantly. “This… this isn’t about Bell, is it?”
“Selene!” he shouted angrily.
“What!? You’re suddenly asking about the mate bond, and you look like you did after we watched that Old Yeller movie!” she shouted back. “What am I supposed to think?”
“I have told you that she has been a sister to me for six years!” Axel growled.
“Ok, ok, fine,” Selene said. “My mistake.”
“Don’t you have some jerks to greet,” Axel huffed.
Selene growled and turned to leave again. She stopped when she reached the top of the stairs. Looking back, she saw that he was still hunched over.
She didn’t know why he was asking, but she saw no harm in giving him an answer. She sighed.
“Even without our bond, I feel connected to him,” she said. “And I love him for who he is. The bond helped us find each other and certainly helps, but it’s still a choice.”
“That’s a nice thought,” he said. “But it doesn’t really prove anything. The bond is always there. So, it’s easy to say that you would always feel something.”
“I guess that’s true,” she said. “And when our bond was suppressed, I knew what was happening and the fact that Alexander was–”
“What?” Axel interrupted, standing up straight. “When your bond was… suppressed?”
“Yea,” Selene said. “During the Alpha’s meeting.”
“Your bond was suppressed during the meeting? How? Why?”
“The pill the Alphas take, the one that Bell takes.”
Axel turned away.
“Why didn’t I think of that before?” he said to himself. “Of course, Bell takes a suppressant to help keep her safe….”
Selene looked carefully at him, and then she smiled.
“Oh! I get it now…” she said. “That’s what this was about. So you were worried that Bell’s mate would somehow know about the wedding? That he would feel it or something?”
Axel looked at her confused, and then suddenly, he nodded.
“Yea… yea, that’s what I was thinking of,” he said.
“That’s really sweet, Axel,” Selene smiled. “But you don’t have to worry. Bell is safe between the bond suppressant and the Priestess stuff.”
“So, the bond suppressant…” he said. “He wouldn’t have to take it?”
“No, the bond is one connection between two people. If one of them blocks it, it’s blocked.”
“And he wouldn’t feel that?” Axel asked.
“Well, I don’t know about him… but when Alexander took it,” she said. “I felt… lonely, kind of empty. Like a part of me was missing.”
‘Eat this. To remind you of me,’ Alice’s sweet voice called to him again.
Did he feel her missing this whole time? His sweet tooth had developed from sadness and loneliness. Something sweet that always made him feel better for a short time. Was this how he remembered her, deep in his heart?
“Another hour, and they will be here,” Bell sighed, looking out the window of Selene’s bedroom.
She shook out her hands nervously.
“Remember the last time Summer wolves arrived?” Selene asked playfully.
Bell blushed at the memory of not just the first, but the second time she had greeted Galen by immediately shoving her tongue down his throat.
“Maybe you should greet him like that again.”
“That is not going to happen,” Bell stated firmly.
“Why not?” Selene asked.
“Because his surrogate mother wasn’t standing beside him last time,” Bell replied with some irritation.
“So… then if Fiona wasn’t with him, if say, he came earlier, and Fiona wouldn’t be here for another hour or so… would you greet him like that?” Selene asked.
Bell furrowed her brows.
“That is a weirdly specific scenario to throw out there….” Bell said.