Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
Alice stood from her chair and leaned forward on the table.
“You have no control over me…” she whispered.
“No?” Jackson asked.
“No.”
Jackson lifted the corner of his mouth.
“Clean cup! Clean cup! Move down!” Jackson laughed.
Alice took a shaky breath as everything stopped. She couldn’t move, couldn’t speak. He knew the words.
“Alice,” he whispered. “Untie me.”
Alice moved without a thought. She pulled at the rope. Though it burned her hands, she stayed quiet through the pain, just as she had been taught. Then, finally, she untied him and stepped back.
Jackson jumped up from his chair. He grabbed her chin roughly and got so close to her face that she could feel the heat of his words.
“There it is!” he hissed. “There’s that precious look in your eyes. Just like the others.”
Deep inside her mind, Alice sat on her knees in the cold stone room and let the tears fall.
“I wonder if you can see me….” Jackson’s voice whispered.
Alice lifted her head to the grimy window. His pale blue eyes seemed to stare directly at her.
“The you inside, hidden away between the fractures and the empty places in your mind. Watching and waiting,” he smiled.
Jackson let go of her chin and took a step back.
“Alice,” he smiled. “The one hidden away, I’m listening. So tell me, do you want to be set free?”
Alice gasped.
She stared out the window at this monster wearing human skin. She couldn’t trust him, she knew that. But still…
Alice got up from the cold stone floor, and in her loudest voice, she screamed.
“Yes…” Alice whispered, just loud enough for Jackson to hear her.
His smile widened.
“I know how to free you, Alice,” he said. “But I need your help first.”
The dawn light hadn’t even crossed the sky.
The three of them walked silently through the trees of the northeastern border, careful to avoid the patrols.
“Here,” Alexander whispered, pulling on Selene’s hand before she could go any further.
Selene stopped, looking back at him woefully.
Alexander looked back at Galen.
“I’ll keep an eye out,” Galen said softly before turning and giving them some privacy.
A soft smile spread over Alexander’s mouth. He reached a hand to Selene’s cheek.
“Don’t do that,” he whispered. Then, taking a step closer, he placed his other hand at her waist.
Selene leaned into him, pressing her head into his chest. He held her close, kissing the top of her hair.
“I’ll be back as soon as possible,” he said. “I promise.”
“Keep yourself safe,” she whispered.
“You too.”
Selene scoffed.
“I’ll be here waiting for you to come back. The only danger I have to worry about is boredom.”
“Good,” he said, pulling back so he could look into her eyes. “Then I don’t need to worry.”.
“You wouldn’t need to worry if you just took me with you,” Selene said.
Alexander laughed.
“Then you should have married me the same night Bell married Galen.”
Selene sighed.
“Selene,” he called.
She looked up at him. His warm gaze burned away her cold resolve.
Selene reached her hand up to the back of his head, drawing him down to her. She kissed him with all that she had. Alexander wrapped his arm at her waist tight and gave her his all.
His warmth, his hunger, it flowed into her. She embraced it. Met his desire with her own, his heat with the raging fire inside her.
Within their hunger, their desire, there was a softness. They held a tenderness for each other, an unspoken sadness to be apart.
Alexander groaned as he pulled away from her.
The dark swirls in his eyes only made Selene crave him more.
He ran his thumb across her lower lip.
“I love you,” he whispered.
“I love you,” she whispered back.
Galen cleared his throat quietly.
“I know,” Alexander nodded sadly.
He kissed her forehead one more time and then turned to Galen.
“I leave them in your hands, brother,” he said.
Galen nodded.
“I will protect them with my life,” Galen said.
Alexander nodded, and they shared a brief hug.
With one last glance at Selene, Alexander shifted into a large red and brown wolf. The dark fur of his brows highlighted the grey of his eyes.
Selene stepped close to him; she ran her fingers over his fur.
“You are surprisingly soft,” she smiled.
Alexander turned, so his head rubbed gently against her hand.
Selene smiled. She leaned forward and kissed the top of his head.
“Hurry back to me,” she whispered.
He looked at her. She felt his promise in his gaze.
Galen and Selene stood shoulder to shoulder as Alexander’s wolf disappeared into the trees just beyond the border of Summer.
“You know where he’s going,” Selene said quietly.
Galen nodded.
“Will he be alright without you?” she asked.
Galen chuckled.
“He would be upset if he heard you ask that question.”
She smiled. “We all want to believe we are strong enough to handle everything alone.”
“He won’t be alone,” Galen replied.
Selene turned to look at Galen.
“He won’t?”
Galen looked down and smiled.
“As a member of Winter, I’m sure you know that your young Alpha isn’t home.”
Selene looked back in the direction in which Alexander had disappeared.
“Axel…” she smiled to herself. “He’ll be fine.”
“The only danger those two need to worry about is from each other,” Galen said with a light chuckle.
Selene laughed.
“They’ll be fine,” she said. “They’ll growl and snarl, but whatever they’re doing together, that will come first.”
Galen nodded.
“We should return before the patrol comes back through,” he said.
They made their way back to the main campus.
Galen immediately went to work to cover all Alexander’s prior commitments and duties. Alexander leaving was kept quiet. Galen had stayed behind to give the illusion that he had never left Summer.
Selene, Fiona, and a select few members of his council were the only ones who knew the truth.
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