Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“About?”
“Well… you said they should run the game from your side….”
“Yea…?”
“They have.”
“What?” Selene asked, sitting up a little bit straighter.
“Actually, I have to.”
“What?!” Selene shot forward in her bed. “What do you mean?”
Clara took a deep breath before speaking again.
“Fiona’s game is a standard test for Summer wolves. We are all required to do basic physical training and combat tactics. Therefore, the game is our final test.”
Selene sat dumbfounded in her bed. She had assumed Fiona created this test to push her and play with her.
“How long did it take you to pass?” she asked.
“I don’t think it really matters how many times you have to run the test; what is essential is that you pass the test. So regardless of how long it takes or –”
“Clara!”
“I passed on my first try.”
“What!”
“How is that even possible?!” Selene shouted angrily. “I don’t mean to be a jerk… but how, how could you defeat Fiona on your first try when I can’t on my twentieth!”
“I can’t tell you,” Clara sighed. “But I will say one thing… there is more than one way to win the challenge. Just listen to the rules carefully.”
After her conversation with Clara, there was no way Selene could just lay back in bed. The game she had failed at over and over was a simple test? One that all Summer wolves took and passed, even the ones that had no real military or combat training.
But, Selene, a top Winter berserker, a devoted warrior and trusted to lead her own men in battle, failed. Repeatedly.
This was unacceptable.
Selene got out of bed, showered, and got herself ready for the next round of the game.
There were now more than twenty wolves on Fiona’s side. When Selene arrived at the simulator, Fiona and the other wolves had already arrived. They stood around stretching and chatting.
Selene wondered how many of these wolves had been laughing at her. Her repeated failure at what was apparently a simple game for the rest of them.
She clenched her jaw and leaned back against the wall. There were five minutes left before Fiona would stand up and state the rules before entering the simulator.
‘This can’t be the same test Clara went through… Fiona must have gone easy on her,’ Selene thought to herself.
“Did you sleep well?”
“Huh?” Selene said, surprised by the sudden question.
She looked up to see Fiona staring down at her with a gentle smile.
“I slept alright,” Selene said..
Fiona sat down beside Selene.
“Did you go back out to the treehouse?” Fiona asked.
“How did you… never mind. No, I stayed in my room last night,” Selene answered.
“The suppressants make us all feel a little off for a while,” Fiona said quietly.
Selene looked back at her.
“Cain used himself as a test subject when he first created them, did you know that?” Fiona asked.
Selene shook her head.
“I felt like my heart stopped,” Fiona said. “I was so scared that something had happened to him. When I found him in his lab, and he told me about this new thing he had created, I was livid. I didn’t
talk to him for three days.”
Selene laughed.
“Between the meetings with the Alphas and all the ‘special missions’ he went on, I got used to it. The last year he was still with us, I think we only spent about a month of the entire year without them.”
“That sounds terrible,” Selene replied honestly.
“It wasn’t great,” Fiona smiled sadly. “And, of course, if I had known it was our last year together… well, I would have changed a lot of things.”
Selene looked away from Fiona. She couldn’t imagine that loss, and she didn’t want to.
“It might sound strange,” Fiona said. “But the day I regret the most that he took those pills was the day he died.”
“It’s not strange,” Selene said with a slight shake of her head.
Selene remembered the night of the Fae attack. She had barely survived the treant that had caught her by the leg. She was lucky that it was injured already. Even though it was able to pierce her abdomen and wound her, she managed to kill it before it could strike her again.
Selene had wanted to lay down in the snow and rest. But the treant had dragged her too far from the battle. She needed to know how her men were doing.
She struggled to walk, weak from the blood loss. But when she felt Alexander through their bond, she stood up straight and took a deep breath.
There was only a brief moment to feel the joy of his presence before the anxiety settled in. He was hurt. He was getting weak. Selene had shifted and was running through the trees before she could even finish the thought.
As she got closer, she felt something else. She felt Jackson. Her stomach twisted.
When she finally saw them, Alexander wasn’t moving. She could feel him dying, feel the wolfsbane taking root.
Jackson growled and pulled back his hand, revealing to her the weapon. Selene’s fury blazed through her body. She launched herself from the higher ground she stood on and flew at him with a force
and speed she couldn’t control.
Selene felt his flesh between her jaws. She tore at it; the metallic taste of his blood filled her mouth.
Instinct told her to do it again, to rip his throat out and watch the light leave his eyes.
But Alexander was growing weaker, and their bond was falling away.
“Selene?” Fiona called.
Selene blinked and shook her head, clearing away the memory.
“Sorry…” she said. “I got… distracted.”
“It’s alright,” Fiona said. “I was just saying that I wish I could have felt Cain before the end just so I would know he wasn’t alone.”
‘He wasn’t,’ Selene whispered in her mind. Swallowing down the guilt, she felt at not being able to give Fiona that reassurance.
“It’s time I share the rules of the game,” Fiona smiled.
Selene nodded and stood up to join the other wolves.
“Welcome all. As you know, this is Selene’s Challenge game,” Fiona smiled, nodding towards Selene. The other wolves turned and nodded to her as well.
Selene nodded back, holding back her sigh of frustration.
“The rules of this challenge are simple,” Fiona continued.
‘Listen to the rules carefully.’
That was what Clara had said. But Selene had heard the rules again and again. So there was nothing helpful in that.
“Selene has a goal, to reach the safe zone. I have a goal, to keep her from that safe zone. Physical attacks are allowed but remember not to go too far. Medics, as always, will immediately provide aid, but even they cannot bring back the dead.”
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