Chapter 140 – Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)

Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)

She knew instinctively that reading this letter would be the catalyst to something she couldn’t stop.

She could keep her father from telling her the rest of the story. She could return to Alexander’s side right now without hearing anything else. He was willing to let it all go and start fresh without the past looming over them.

But, she remembered the pained sound in his voice when he spoke of his father, the sorrow of the Summer wolves.

And then there was Bell. All those times Selene had glimpsed the slight slip of a haunted expression carefully hidden away.

Selene took the letter.

‘Dear Grandma,

I’m scared.

I’m afraid that writing this letter will get me killed, but I’m more afraid of dying without someone knowing the truth.

I don’t know what Dad has told you about our life here, but it hasn’t been easy. Because of certain ‘characteristics’, Mom and I have been considered ‘special’ to the pack. We are treated differently than others and not in a good way.

When I was little, I heard them talking when they thought I was asleep. Dad wanted to run to Winter, but Mom was scared. She knew that they would never let me and her go, and she was afraid they would hurt him to make us stay. She cried a lot.

Dad promised her he wouldn’t bring it up ever again.

Like I said, Mom and I were treated like that my whole life, and if that was all, I never would have written this letter.

When you came for the funeral, you asked if something changed, that I seemed different. I lied and told you nothing had changed.

You didn’t know. Dad wasn’t allowed to tell anyone. But I met my mate a month before they died.

We were all surprised when it happened.

When I met him, he was sweet… I didn’t understand everything that was happening to me. It was a feeling that made me embarrassed and excited. When he spoke to me, I felt like the most beautiful girl in the world.

And when he saw the marks on my arm, and I told him what they were from, he was so upset. He told me he would make sure it never happened again, and he was true to his word.

I thought he was amazing.

When I told Mom and Dad about what he said and how we would be safe from now on, they looked so worried. I was so confused and so upset by their reaction. Then, Dad reminded me about our Winter traditions, about waiting to be mated and married until I was eighteen.

I wanted to honor our traditions. So, I had no problem agreeing.

But when we told my mate, that was the first time I saw him get upset. He’s older than me, already eighteen. So, he felt that should be good enough. But Dad disagreed. They argued, and honestly, I got scared.

Mom and Dad had another talk that night. Dad brought up going to Winter again, but Mom said she would consider it this time. I didn’t know why she would consider it now, especially because they had stopped forcing us into the clinics.

I had never met my mate until the day we felt the bond, but Mom and Dad already knew him.

It’s my fault they died.

I didn’t know what he would do when I told him what they talked about.

When I told him he grabbed my shoulders so hard he left bruises, he had a look in his eye that scared me. Then, he said to me that he would never let me go. He would never let anyone take me from him.

After Mom and Dad, I went to live with my aunt. He came into my window that first night I lived there. I was crying. He hugged me, and for a moment, I felt grateful. Until he asked if I believed him now and told me never to forget that I was his.

That was the first time he forced himself on me.

I told my aunt what he did, and she told me that I already belonged to him. He was free to do with me what he saw fit. There was no such thing as a choice between mates.

It never mattered how much I screamed or cried. She never stopped him, even though I knew she could hear everything that happened.

When you came for the funeral, I wanted to tell you… But he saw how I looked at you, the hope in my eyes. So, he reminded me again that he would never let anyone take me. I was afraid of what he would do to you.

After everyone left, right there in the hall where we said goodbye to my parents, he forced his mark on me.

He has done whatever he wants for the past year, whenever he wants. He even put me back in the clinic rotations.

I have said no. I’ve tried to fight. But I realized that he gets more excited when I do. So, I think my fear makes it better for him.

Maybe I deserve all of this for telling him what Mom and Dad said. But I can’t do it anymore.

I don’t really expect there is anything you can do for me.

I’m pretty sure the moment you try, he’ll find out.

I think I’m hoping he’ll be so mad he goes too far. Then I can see Mom and Dad again and tell them how sorry I am.

I know I’m not a part of Winter, but if it’s not too much to ask, will you place a stone for me? It doesn’t need to be anything special. I just want a part of me that doesn’t belong to Autumn.

I love you, Grandma.

-Bell’

Selene was sobbing now.

The heaviness in her chest was more than she could bear.

“I went to Autumn that same day,” Wyatt continued once he saw that Selene was done reading the letter.

“I got in the car and drove faster than I had ever driven before. I went before Tomas, and I demanded that he let the girl join her family in Winter.”

Wyatt slammed his fist on the desk.

“He laughed,” Wyatt sighed angrily, “he told me that the mate bond superseded any familial claim Winter had. He said I should have come sooner.”

Selene was shaking. Enraged, devastated.

“How…” her voice came out in a squeak. She pushed down the feelings and tried again. “How did you save her?”

“I didn’t,” Wyatt exhaled sadly.

He leaned back in his chair, and Selene could suddenly see how tired he was.

“Tomas told me he wouldn’t help me unless I helped him,” Wyatt said. “He said that Cain had been avoiding him, wouldn’t help him with a project.”

Selene swallowed, feeling nervous suddenly.

“What project?” she asked.

Wyatt shook his head.

“That I never knew,” he answered. “He only asked me to get Cain to agree to meet him. Then, and only then would he help her escape her mate.”

“What happened?” she asked.

“I reached out to Cain, I told him the truth, and he agreed to meet Tomas,” Wyatt said. “We went together, and I stayed outside while they talked. But then, they told me nothing about their deal. Only that it was done.”

Wyatt sniffled again and cleared his throat.

“And that was it? He just set her free with no other conditions?” Selene asked, fighting down the anger that wanted to pour out at the torment her friend had suffered.

“His only other condition,” Wyatt sneered at the memory, “was not to blame him for what happened before I arrived.”

Selene didn’t understand; Wyatt lifted his eyes to meet hers. Anger and resentment swirled within them.

“When he brought her out, this sixteen-year-old girl. She was covered in bruises, and her jaw was wired shut.”

“What?!” Selene screamed. Jumping up from her chair in anger. “Why would they do that!”

“Because,” came a shaky voice from behind Selene.

Selene turned to see Bell standing in the doorway. Holding herself tightly as angry tears streamed from her eyes. Her mouth trembled.

“I had a nasty mouth.”

“Bell…” Selene called out to her gently.

Bell’s eyes moved down to the paper Selene held. She swallowed, and her eyes fell to the floor.

“You read it….” Bell said quietly.

Selene looked down at the letter. She folded it and set it down on the desk. Looking back to Bell.

“Yea,” she replied gently.

Bell nodded, squeezing herself tighter.

“So, this is all my fault then?” she asked, looking at Wyatt. “Whatever deal you struck with that bloodsucker is why you left Cain out in the cold? Why Alexander and the rest of Summer hate us? Why all those wolves without suitable armor or upgrades died?!”

She gasped as she lost control of her cries, and sobbed gently.

“No!” Wyatt shouted immediately. “No.”

He shook his head as he stood from his chair. He made his way past Selene and over to Bell. Wyatt stood before her and carefully, gently placed his hands on her shoulders.

She let out another soft cry as he did.

“None of this your fault,” he said gently. “I made every choice; I am responsible for the lives of my wolves.”

“But you did those things because of me?” she asked.

“Please, Bell,” his voice shook with heavy emotion. “Please, come, sit down. You deserve to know the truth.”.

He looked back at Selene.

“You both do.”

Selene and Bell sat together on the sofa without saying a word. Selene wanted to offer Bell comfort, but she didn’t know how. Wyatt made sure the door was locked so no one could just walk in. He sat across from them in his chair and took a deep breath.

“I told you that to get Bell free of Autumn, I needed Cain’s help,” Wyatt began. “As I already said, I do not know what the deal he struck with Tomas was, but I know it was something big. Something important.”

“Important how?” Selene asked.

“I don’t know. I only know that Tomas’s satisfied look when they came out of that room was unsettling,” Wyatt answered.

“If he was happy, it wasn’t worth it,” Bell said quietly.

Wyatt lowered his gaze.

Selene saw the tension building, the unease and discomfort between them.

“I don’t see how this would be a betrayal of Alpha Cain. It sounds like he chose to help,” Selene said, then turning to Bell, she added. “And it was the right choice.”

Bell turned away, facing the empty side of the room.

“I told you that you needed to understand what happened years before he died,” Wyatt said. “So that you might understand why I made the choices I have made since his death.”

Selene swallowed down her nerves.

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