Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
he raised an eyebrow skeptically.
“Every time she’s emotionally provoked, shattered, or loses control, her evil blood is triggered!”
I exclaimed.
“What the ”
Bix stared at me incredulously. “Are you absolutely certain?”
“I am! At least, that’s what I’ve observed when it comes to Willow. We can’t gauge the extent of emotional damage she’s endured during the last few days with Dark. It would be safe to assume that she is teetering on the edge. If she were to lose her temper, become emotionally provoked, or shift into her wolf form, then we’re in for something far worse!”
**Willow**
“Alpha King?”
I stared at Dark with wide eyes. His expression remained calm and unchanged when he locked gazes with me. He did not care to oppose or deny that Dark was indeed “Alpha King Alden!”
The corner of his lips curled into a smile, “I am Dark, Alden’s wolf,”
he admitted.
“The Alpha King’s wolf?”
My jaw dropped, “Does that mean the Kingdom has been run by a wolfless King all these years?”
“Yes, Alpha King Alden is just a puppet King without a wolf,”
Reuben stated, walking in. “Due to the fact that the fucked up other half of his nature is wandering around wreaking havoc,”
he added, his eyes locked on Dark.
“You are not welcome here, boy,”
Dark smiled but it was sharp enough to cut glass, “I am thrilled that you could manage to make it this far alive to get to my palace. I will be generous and allow you to leave this place with your life still intact,”
his voice was grave and full of pointed threats. Though, what really surprised me was the location that Dark had been holding me in. It turned out the dark maze was none other than the Alpha King’s palace! A place that no one would have expected me to be but Reuben came searching for me here. My heart squeezed.
“Obviously, I am going to walk out of here alive ”
Reuben crushed the cigarette with his shoe, “with my soulmate,”
he countered, his eyes blazing with confidence, causing Dark’s smile to instantly drop.
Dark’s aura grew darker and colder as the room around us got darker and darker. It was a very bad sign. “Your mate bond with my Rose was a mistake. Now she is mine, I have rightfully claimed her,”
he remarked, his voice even more grave.
Reuben didn’t even glance at the darkness around him, “Nothing belongs to you motherfucker. Not my soulmate or the world that you dream of ruling,”
he glared veins popping out of his neck.
Dark chuckled, “did you just say your soulmate, lover boy? How about you look at her neck, it will help you clear any misunderstandings you may have. So you can fucking give up as you can see I am in no mood to shed blood on my wedding day. The New Moon is close and I don’t fucking have time to deal with a love sick puppy like you?”
Reuben’s eyes moved from my face to my neck. I clenched my fists, fearing his reaction. Was he going to think that I betrayed him? He tore his eyes away from Dark’s mark on my neck and met mine. The blank look in his eyes was the scariest thing I had ever imagined. “What’s with your crying face?”
he chuckled, “You have only lost my mark, I still bear your mark on my neck,”
he smiled as he spread his arms wide, “A mating mark doesn’t define our love, right? Come here, Willow,”
he smiled, making my heart beat intensify. We were still soulmates.
I bit my lip and nodded, ready to give in to my instinct to run over to him.
“That single wrong decision will not only cost your children’s life but him as well,”
Dark’s voice came from behind, freezing me on the spot. I found myself standing in the middle of the room, between Dark and Reuben as Dark’s mocking voice entered my ears, “Choose wisely, Rose. This decision will bring another storm of death into your life just like the one you made eleven years ago.”
I glanced over my shoulder at him then at Reuben whose heart was rapidly beating in his chest over the matter as it was about our children’s life. My heart clenched when I recalled the illusion of Wyatt and Lori’s death. I had to choose between Reuben and children.
“Willow, our children will be safe,”
Reuben promised, looking deep into my eyes. “We will go visit them very soon,”
he added, stretching his hand out to me.
I looked at his hand but did not move a muscle. Dark’s victorious smile grew wider at Reuben’s expression. I took a deep breath then without a second though, I raced all the way over to Reuben and hugged him tightly. “Reuben ”
My whole body shook with the rollercoaster of emotions of losing him and finding him again.
He immediately returned my tight embrace, “It’s alright,”
he kissed my head, his heart beating faster in happiness now that I had chosen him over Dark.
Dark frowned bitterly, “Did you just choose him over your children?”
I pulled slightly away from Reuben, placed my hand on Reuben’s chest, then glanced over my shoulder at Dark, “I am choosing to trust my mate,”
I whispered.
“You still haven’t learned who your real soulmate is, right?”
Dark’s eyes turned red in rage, “You have a great deal of confidence in him, don’t you?”
he growled, the darkness took on a very frightening state around Reuben and me. “Now you will be responsible for his death!!”
he roared, then vanished into the darkness. He had some mysterious powers that I was not sure that we could defeat. Moreover the door that we could exit had disappeared into the ether, leaving both of us alone in the creepy darkness.
“Where did he go?”
I gasped, looking around only to be stunned by the three large black wolves pouncing on us out of the darkness. “Reuben!!”
I yelled, immediately shielding him with my body, ready to shift into my wolf and fight to death but a black wolf with mismatched eyes smirked up at me as a fourth wolf came at Reuben from behind. Their target had only ever been Reuben.
“Don’t shift, no matter what happens,”
he whispered, suddenly pushing me away. “I don’t want to loose you again ”
I staggered away. What what did he just do? Had he pushed me away? He saved me and facing Dark alone?
my heart dropped in my stomach thinking about his actions as I immediately looked back to find all four of them closing in to kill Reuben.
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