Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
He raised an eyebrow, taking the paper from me.
“The amount of compensation that you owe,”
I replied. His easy intrusion and single-handed confrontation with numerous wolves jeopardized the pack’s safety. As an apology, I requested Beta Ken to double the compensation amount.
Reuben silently reviewed the paper, noting the ten million in compensation. He looked at me. “I was hurt too,”
he abruptly stated as he rose and approached me.
“I don’t care,”
I glared at him.
“Mommy, can you please treat daddy’s wounds?”
Lori walked over to me with the first aid box, her blue eyes full of concern. I glanced at Reuben from the corner of my eye. He was an Alpha and had a very strong constitution. He did not need first aid to heal, his wolf could easily heal those wounds, they wouldn’t even leave scars on his body. Yet, he was sitting there pitifully on the bed, playing at being weak and pitiful in front of the children.
“Lori, how about you and your brother go downstairs?”
I squatted in front of both of them and took the first aid kit from her hand. “Beta Ken said that he is going to take you two to the pack’s river to play.”
“Play at the river?”
Wyatt’s face instantly lit up.
“Yes,”
I smiled with a nod. “Go quickly, or he will leave!”
I exclaimed.
They nodded excitedly then raced back to Reuben, “Daddy, we are going to play with Uncle Ken. From here on out, you are on your own in chasing after your mate,”
Wyatt stated.
“Don’t worry, daddy will handle it,”
Reuben smiled and gave both of them a hug.
Listening to what Wyatt said, I was too stunned to react for a couple of seconds as Wyatt raced out of the room holding Lori’s hand.
As their steps faded away down the stairs, I put away the first aid box and turned to Reuben. “Did you tell them about us being soulmates?”
I demanded.
“Do you really think I had to tell them such an obvious thing?,”
he raised his brows, moving closer to me, “My children are smart enough to come to that conclusion about the two of us themselves.”
“They are not yours, they are my children, Reuben!”
I snapped at him. “I know what you are trying to do. Stop manipulating my kids or trying to get close to them. You cannot steal them from me. I will never allow it!”
“Who said I was trying to steal them?”
Reuben wrapped his arms around my waist.
“What do you mean?”
I gasped. Could it be he was planning something worse?
“My target is not our children but you. Once I steal you, they will also be mine,”
he whispered, his eyes overflowing with possessiveness.
I was stunned for a long time after hearing his plan. For a second, it felt like I had gone back in time eleven years to when Reuben had ambiguously declared his pursuit of me. However, at this point his words only made my blood boil, “Is this the reason you broke into Wade Moon?! Don’t think for a second that I don’t know that it’s you who is stopping me from leaving the country,”
I gritted my teeth, breaking free from his hold. “Let me tell you something, Reuben. I will leave this country no matter what. I will get far away from you, to a place that you can never find me. You cannot stop ”
Before I could finish my sentence, Reuben grabbed my arm and pulled me close to his chest. “Don’t even think about escaping, Willow,”
he let out a very low and threatening growl, his voice was deep, his eyes as dark as storm clouds. “You will never be able to escape me now, Willow. I am not the same Reuben you left six years ago. You can no longer trick me and escape like you did in the past. I would go so far as to dig a hole to the center of the earth to search for you. So don’t even think about trying to make a run for it. Even if you try to escape, you’ll only end up losing Wyatt and Lori forever.”
I felt a sudden chill make its way down to the marrow of my bones when he mentioned to me about losing Wyatt and Lori, “What do you mean?”
“The moment you try to escape in any way, I will file for sole Wyatt and Lori’s custody,”
his voice was low as his eyes fixed on watching my changing expression.
“Custody?!”
My face went pale. “You can’t do that, Reuben!”
I screamed, hitting his chest. “Wyatt and Lori are mine. You can not steal them from me!”
“Try me, you know what I can do,”
he grabbed my hand and pulled me closer, causing my breath to fan against his hard chest. “You should not have run away from me, Willow. You owe me so much,”
he whispered, looking deep into my eyes.
“I don’t owe you a thing!”
I growled, pulling away from him. “I owe you nothing!”
I pushed him away.
“Nothing?”
Grabbing my hand, he pinned me against the nearest wall and pressed the length of his body against mine. “Let me tell you what you owe me,”
he slowly spread my legs with his knees.
“What are you doing?”
I gasped in horror. “Let me go!!”
“Shhhh ”
he hushed, softly weaving his fingers into my hair. “You owe me 2,190 days, Willow,”
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