Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
Alexander made sure to keep her mind and focus entirely on him as he made her scream his name again and again.
A few hours later, when he was sure that Selene was in a deep sleep and wouldn’t wake up easily, Alexander slipped out of bed.
Putting on a shirt and pants, he quietly left their room.
***
Galen sighed as he looked over the stack of documents on his desk. Due to the system testing, every request for the past three days had been submitted on paper. Without the automated approvals for the mundane requests, he needed to check every single one personally.
The wolves of Summer were used to a certain approval speed for their requests, which meant he was also receiving a lot of calls or visits from angry wolves.
If not for his chats each night with Bell, he was sure he would have already lost his mind.
His thoughts moved back to the events of the early evening.
Seeing Fiona down on her knees, clawing her throat as she gasped for air… his mind, body, his entire being had been overwhelmed by a panic he had never known.
Even thinking of it now made it hard for him to breathe. He took a deep breath and exhaled, slowly swallowing down the rising sense of dread and returning to his paperwork.
A knock at his door drew his attention.
“It’s too late for any more approval requests. Come back tomorrow, or better yet, don’t!” he called at the door.
Another knock.
He sighed.
“Seriously, go away.”
Another knock.
Galen let out a frustrated growl.
He pushed away from his desk and walked to the door, yanking it open as he grumbled.
“This better be really damn important. I’ve had a shit day, and I am not in the mood for any bull–”
Galen’s words were lost as a heavy fist flew against his jaw.
He fell back against the desk, barely registering what had happened before he was pulled up by his collar. He was quickly turned and pinned against the opposite wall. A thick arm pressed under his chin and he found himself staring into the furious eyes of his alpha.
“Had I not arrived and commanded you to stop,” Alexander growled quietly through gritted teeth. “What the fuck were you planning to do to my wife?”
Galen knew this moment was coming.
From the second he decided to lift the dagger, this moment had become a fixed point in his future, an inevitable and unavoidable event.
He couldn’t blame Alexander. If it had been Bell, Galen wasn’t sure he would have been able to hold back as much as Alexander already had.
“Well…” Alexander growled.
Galen swallowed.
“I wasn’t thinking,” he said.
Alexander pressed his arm into Galen’s throat, forcing a gurgled grunt as he felt the pressure against his windpipe.
“I asked,” Alexander growled, his eyes glowing softly. “What you planned to do to my wife, Galen.”
Galen breathed deeply through his nose as he thought back to what Fiona had told him as they walked away from Alexander and Selene.
[A Few Hours Earlier]
“Why did you do that!” Fiona shouted in a whisper as she pushed Galen into a small alcove where she hoped no one would hear them talking.
“What?” Galen asked.
“You were going to kill Selene!” Fiona growled.
Galen clenched his jaw and looked away.
Fiona hit his chest roughly..
“Ow!” he said.
“Look at me,” she demanded.
Galen looked at her.
“Alexander will not let this go,” she said in a severe tone. “Right now, he is focused on Selene, but the moment he thinks she is safe, he will come for you.”
Galen swallowed.
“He won’t hurt me,” Galen said quietly.
“He won’t kill you,” Fiona said. “He would never go that far… but hurt you?”
Galen looked away.
“What if it was Bell?” Fiona asked.
Galen’s eyes widened, and he looked back at her.
“What?”
“What if you saw Alexander threatening Bell’s life,” she said. “Would you hurt him?”
“He would never do that,” Galen said.
“And he would have said the same of you just an hour ago.”
Galen looked away again, taking slow deep breaths.
“You went too far, sweety.”
“She was hurting you,” he said quietly. “It looked like… like she was killing you.”
Fiona sighed and put her hand on Galen’s shoulder.
“I understand,” she said.
“Will he?” Galen asked quietly without looking at her.
“Yes,” she said. “But it won’t matter.”
Galen furrowed his brows and looked at her.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
Fiona shook her head.
“Selene is everything to him. He has changed since she has come into his life. Become more raw. He cherishes her and loves her with his entire being. Just like you do Bell,” she said. “But the difference between the two of you is the bond.”
Fiona pursed her lips as she tried to think of the best way to explain.
“Alexander and Selene love each other, but the bond between them is possessive. It’s primal. The bond is not rational. A perceived threat to your mate… it triggers something inside of you, something dark.”
Galen swallowed. His heart thumped wildly as he listened.
Fiona looked down. She took a breath before continuing.
“When I was young, Cain and I went to our first Blood Moon together. We had only been mated for a few months at the time, and it was still all very new and intense. Anyway, there was a wolf there that had drank too much. He had no idea what he was doing, but he broke a glass.
“Cain bent down to help him clean up the mess. This wolf was so drunk that he thought Cain was coming after him. He reacted without thinking. Just swinging wildly without paying attention. He cut Cain’s hand.”
Fiona paused. She pursed her lips and looked away.
“I saw that moment,” she said. “I saw a man cut my mate.”
Galen felt his heart in his throat as he waited for her to finish.
“I made sure that Cain was alright, and then I turned to the wolf that hurt my mate. He still held the shard of glass,” she said. “I didn’t ask what happened. I didn’t give him a chance to apologize. Instead, I squeezed his hand with the glass in his palm, and I didn’t stop when he screamed, or the others tried to pull me away. I refused to let go until I felt his bones cracking.”
Galen felt sick.
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