Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“But you had a reason for asking about him at all.”
Axel looked back at her.
“I told you… I was just confirming–”
“I know you, Axel if you just thought you had found out who he was… you wouldn’t have mentioned him to me,” Bell said, licking her lips and swallowing nervously. “There is a reason that you are asking me about him.”
Axel sighed.
“Axel… why did you tell me to reconsider asking Galen to come to Winter?” Bell asked. Her heart rate was picking up, and her breathing was also speeding up.
He moved immediately to sit beside her. Then, taking her hand in his, he gently rubbed her arms and shushed her softly.
“Calm down,” he whispered. “You can’t work yourself up.”
“Answer my questions,” she said between deep breaths.
“Bell, I really don’t think–”
“I guarantee you that the things I am assuming, fearing are worse than whatever the truth really is, so just fucking tell me!” she shouted angrily.
Axel’s eyes widened, and Bell gasped, surprised by her own outburst.
“I’m sorry,” she said quickly, looking away.
“It’s ok,” he said. “I won’t pretend to understand what you’re feeling… but I know it’s not easy. I wish I knew how to help.”
“Just tell me what’s going on,” she said.
“Peter said it wouldn’t be a good idea, I just mentioned his name, and you went pale and then passed out,” Axel argued.
“Axel, I haven’t heard his name in six years. It was a shock.”
Axel nodded, then sighed.
“Are you sure?” he asked. “It’s not just you. Peter said that getting worked up could also put the baby at risk.”
“In the six years I have lived in Winter, you have never known his name, not from me or anyone else. Now all of a sudden, you know his name,” Bell said.
She swallowed and took a deep breath before continuing
“That is already something that makes the hair on my arms stand on end. But the fact that you know who he is to me, that you were able to put that together….”
She looked to the floor and chewed her lower lip. Then, taking another breath, she continued.
“That tells me that something has happened. And whatever it is, if that monster is involved, my baby is already at risk. So please… cut the silent build-up crap and just tell me.”
Axel took a moment to think about it, to really think about what she was saying. She was right, and he knew it. He was just afraid of how the truth would affect her.
“I told you that Alice basically traded herself for information on Selene?” Axel asked.
Bell nodded.
“I haven’t heard from her since that day, not until yesterday,” he said. “She sent me a letter. In it, she mentioned you.”
Bell let out a shaky breath and nodded.
“Okay…”
“It was a very short letter, probably written in only a quick moment,” he said. “All she said was ‘Roman is looking for Bell, keep her safe’ nothing else.”
She felt a cold spread over her body at the words.
“He… he’s… he’s looking?” she whispered. “Then he already… he knows… oh Goddess….”
Tears fell from her eyes, her heart raced, and panic settled over her.
Axel quickly grabbed her and held her close.
“It’s okay,” he whispered. “It’s okay… I’m here.”
Bell wanted to run. She wanted to hide… but where could she even go? She was supposed to have been safe here. He was supposed to think she had died. If Roman knew she was alive, he would never let her go.
The carefully built dam that had held back all of the fear and anxiety from the past six years broke apart. The flood of emotions overwhelmed her, and she sobbed uncontrollably in his arms.
Axel held Bell tightly as she let it all out.
He reassured her and patted her back, whispering that she had an entire pack that would keep her safe from anyone who would dare to threaten her.
It was almost an hour that she cried. She was exhausted by the time she had finally calmed down.
“Are you ok?” Axel asked softly as he pulled away from her.
“Yes,” Bell said, laying back down in the bed, hugging her pillow to her chest. “I just had a lot of pent-up feelings.”
“I’m sorry,” Axel sighed. “I shouldn’t have said anything….”
“It’s alright,” Bell said. “I needed to know.”
“I should let you rest,” he said, seeing how tired she was.
“Wait,” Bell called before he stood from the bed.
“Yea?”
Bell swallowed and took a breath.
“He is Tomas’ son,” she said.
“What?!” Axel shouted in surprise.
“Ssshh!”
“Sorry, that was just not what I expected.”.
“Yea… He always had problems with violence, Tomas kind of kept his existence low key,” she said. “As far as I knew, he sent him away overseas after I ‘died’.”
“I wonder if he brought him back for the war,” Axel theorized.
Bell shook her head.
“No,” she said quietly. “Tomas would never do that. I think he’s almost as scared of Roman as I am.”
“Wouldn’t it make sense to try to use that against his enemies?” Axel asked.
Bell shook her head again.
“No,” she said. “I never told Wyatt this, but the night he took me from Autumn, the night that Roman broke my jaw, Tomas had tried to protect me.”
“What do you mean?” Axel asked.
“Roman attacked me like that because I tried to reject him, and he disagreed. But before that, Tomas had tried to keep me safe. He literally took me to a safe house.”
“What happened?”
“I made a mistake,” Bell said sadly. “Tomas told me that I would leave Autumn soon, that I just needed to wait one more day. But I wanted to say goodbye to my parents.”
Tears filled her eyes once more.
“There were no markers or remembrance stones. So, I was stupid, and I went to our old home. I said goodbye, and then I ran back to the safe house. I didn’t realize that our home had been given to a friend of Roman. He saw me, followed me, and then told Roman where to find me. By the time Tomas returned to the safe house, Roman had already been there and ‘taught me my lesson’.”
Axel clenched his jaw as he remembered the night she had arrived, the glint of the metal in the moonlight, the look of pain she would get as she tried to eat or drink anything.
“No, Tomas didn’t bring Roman back… I think I did.”
“What? How?”
“The night Wyatt told Selene the truth about… everything… when I ran. I got so close to the border I felt something, something dark. I think… I think I felt him.”
“So, you think he realized you were alive, and now he has come back to find you?” Axel asked.
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