Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
“It’s just that the Alpha King wants to meet with me,”
he remarked casually, but my heart drummed in my chest more wildly.
“Why does the King want to meet with you? Is it because of the marriage contract with Ella? Or because of me?”
I didn’t know much, but I was sure that breaking the contract with Ella, which had been under the watchful eyes of the royals, was a huge scandal. While I was a woman whose death decree had been dispatched six years ago, who had given birth to the children of an Alpha with royal blood. I was still alive and a criminal in the eyes of the royals. “Do they want to kill me?”
I asked quietly, looking into Reuben’s eyes.
Reuben’s expression faltered as he stepped closer to me. “No one can touch you, Willow,”
his voice was low, but the obsession in his tone and eyes went beyond anything I could have ever imagined. “Whether it was a storm or blustering wind it has to pass me first before it even has a chance of touching your hair. Do you understand me?”
he tucked a strand of hair behind my ear, gazing deeply into my eyes. I nodded in response. “I will be back,”
he kissed my forehead.
I looked up at him with a smile, “Come back soon.”
He nodded and left with Beta Jin, leaving Oran and Bix to look after the pack. I kept staring in the direction he had gone, feeling sad. I didn’t want him to leave.
“He will be back,”
Oran stated, pulling me out of my thoughts. I blinked up at him and nodded. “Those look delicious. Mind if I have some?”
He eyed the cookies on the tray.
“You can have them all,”
I smiled, passing him the plate of cookies.
“Wow, these are as delicious as they used to be six years ago, Willow,”
Oran grinned, quickly eating all of them one after another.
I giggled, “Thank you, I have two jars at home. I will send you one of them over for you if you’d like.”
“Really? Now are you sure I can’t talk you into letting me steal the kids’ share too,”
he teased with a laugh.
“Sure,”
we both laughed together.
“If they’re that delicious, how about you eat the plate too,”
Bix’s voice interrupted our happy conversation.
Oran froze mid-bite and glanced at Bix’s unpleasant expression for a couple of seconds, only to awkwardly put the cookies back on the tray. I blinked at him, giving up on eating the cookies. What was going on? I looked between them with confused eyes. Why was Bix unhappy? Was it because Oran ate the cookies? Could it be that he wanted some too and was annoyed that Oran had eaten them all?
Clearing my throat, I picked up a cup of coffee to offer Bix. “Would you like some coffee?”
He looked at the coffee then back to Oran. “Give it to him, he seems to be very hungry,”
he said before walking away with a frown, completely puzzling me.
“Did I do something to annoy him?”
I murmured but I had a feeling that he actually was not pissed off at me but Oran. Not that I could understand the why of it?
Oran rubbed his cheek. “Don’t pay attention to him,”
he advised.
I nodded, wanting to put the cup back on the tray, but I stumbled while turning around, and the hot coffee was about to burn my hand. The cup slipped from my grasp, I braced myself for the pain of the burn. However, neither the cup nor the coffee fell from my hand. Instead, they remained suspended in mid-air, surprising me.
How was this possible?
That’s when I turned my attention to find Bix’s hand that was shining. My eyes widened to see him using magic! He had stopped the coffee from burning my hand at the exact right moment.
“Are you a hybrid?”
I gasped. How had I never known about this? Yet seeing Oran’s expression was enough to confirm that I was the only one that did not know about it. Reuben likely knew about it too.
Bix took a step back, clearly surprised that he had accidentally exposed his powers. However, that was the moment that his nose started to bleed.
“Your ”
I gasped but before I could say anything a wind passed by me that was none other than Oran. He had already dashed closer to Bix at lightning speed and pressed a handkerchief to Bix’s nose.
“Calm down,”
Oran whispered as Bix’s surprised eyes locked on Oran’s sudden move. Oran’s smiling face that had been put on display in front of me had completely changed at the sight of Bix bleeding. In reality he looked exactly the same as Reuben at that point.
Bix looked at me watching the two of them closely and pulled away from Oran. “I can do it.”
With that he left with the piece of cloth pressed over his nose, but Oran still followed him.
I watched as both of their backs vanished while my thoughts whirled. What was this tension between the two of them? It turned out that Bix was half werewolf and half wizard!
Later that day, after I had finished working on my designs, I got ready to leave for the Wade Moon Pack before going to the restaurant to meet Walter.
As soon as I parked my car in front of the packhouse and got out, Sky showed up out of nowhere and hugged me happily. “Willow!”
I giggled, “Were you hiding somewhere and waiting for me?”
“Of course! After I received your message that you were coming to visit, I couldn’t stay calm!”
he exclaimed, he started chatting about my escape, return, and my issues with Reuben as we entered the packhouse together.
After understanding everything I explained, Sky commented, “I still don’t like him seeing he came awfully close to killing me the other day, but as long as he loves you I’m fine with it,”
he dryly remarked. I chuckled, shaking my head.
“Where is the Alpha?”
I asked, noticing Sky’s expression immediately change. “Is something wrong? Did you two have another argument?”
I raised my brows in concern.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
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