Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“It’s kind of personal,” Axel replied quietly.
Alice tilted her head. She smiled brightly and leaned closer to his ear.
“Is it a secret?” she whispered.
A flush of heat rolled over Axel as he took a deep breath.
He nodded.
“I love secrets…” she whispered.
Axel quickly got up and moved several steps away from the bench, taking another deep breath.
“Can I see it?” she asked.
Axel jumped back.
“How did you do that?” he asked, shocked at how quickly she had moved beside him without a sound.
“I’m sneaky,” she said innocently.
“Selene said you’re a spy,” Axel said.
“Mmhmm,” Alice nodded.
“Are you supposed to tell me that?” Axel asked, tilting his head in confusion.
“Nuh-uh,” Alice replied, shaking her head.
“You’re very strange,” he said. Unsure what to make of this woman.
“Thank you,” she smiled with a curtsy.
Axel was surprised to hear his own laugh.
“Will you tell me how you got it?” she asked.
“Why?” he asked, feeling defensive. “Did someone tell you to find out?”
Alice shook her head.
“Then why do you want to know?” he asked.
“Because I’m curious,” she said. “I’m not curious about a lot of things. But I am curious about you.”
“A spy who isn’t curious about things? That doesn’t make sense,” Axel said with disbelief crossing his arms.
“Hmm…” Alice said, looking at Axel carefully. Suddenly she smiled and jumped excitedly. “I know!”
Axel was startled when she got very close to him, so close he was forced to back up, right into the bench. He ended up unintentionally sitting down, placing his vision pointed directly at her chest.
He quickly turned away.
“That was an accident!” he shouted.
“Ssshh!” she said, putting her hand over his mouth. “I’m not supposed to be here!”
Axel felt a strange sensation at her touch, a tremble through his entire body. Then, she pulled her hand away from him, and he was left feeling dizzy.
Alice sat down beside him.
“How about we trade, you tell me your secret, and I will tell you mine.”
Selene took Alexander back to the room that had been arranged for him. They had chatted about this and that, but nothing of consequence. They were both keenly aware of the potential for eyes and ears everywhere.
Once they were behind closed doors, Selene broke the charade.
“Five months?” she asked.
Alexander smiled and nodded.
“I don’t remember having that conversation….” Selene said, crossing her arms as though she were upset with him.
“Well, I figured since you put a time limit on me for when you would be introduced to my pack, I should put a time limit on you… Since I know, you won’t marry me until you feel assured that my pack accepts you.”
“And you think it will take five months?” she asked with hopefulness.
“I have no clue,” Alexander replied honestly. “It could take five months, five years, I really don’t know.”
Selene was clearly disappointed by his answer.
Alexander wheeled over to her. He reached up and took her hand.
“You wanted to do this the hard way…” he sighed.
“I know…” she said.
“I love you for wanting their approval,” Alexander said. “But I am not willing to put off our marriage because of someone else’s opinion. You only got five months out of me because I am trying to respect your wish to try with those stubborn idiots.”
Selene laughed.
“Those are your people, Alexander.”
“I love them, but they are stubborn idiots,” Alexander sighed..
He pulled her down into his lap and wrapped his arms around her, burying his nose into her throat.
“I am happy,” he whispered against her skin. “They should be happy for me.”
Selene closed her eyes and used every ounce of willpower she had to push back against the growing desire for his touch.
“Alexander,” she said, pulling away enough for them to face each other. “They love you. Of course, they will be happy for you. But I have broken your trust, so I have broken theirs.”
Selene smiled at him, but he saw the hurt in her eyes. He saw how much guilt she carried.
“I forgave you,” he whispered. Touching her cheek gently.
“Because you love me,” she smiled. “And because they love you, they can’t forgive me so easily.”
Looking up into her sparkling eyes, all he wanted was to start their life together.
“And that is why I will give you five months,” he sighed.
“But what if–” she started to argue.
“No more,” he growled, squeezing her playfully.
“You didn’t let me finish,” she said, with a smile that Alexander told himself was just for him, “what if they accept me sooner?”
Alexander’s eyes swirled with darkness. He gently moved his hand from her waist, trailing his fingers up along her spine, pushing and pulling at her senses with the pleasure of his touch like a warm tide rolling in and out.
He brought his hand over her shoulder and to her chin delicately, nudging slightly. Selene turned like he wanted her to. She let out a soft whimper as she felt his hot breath along her collar bone.
His mouth hovered just over that delicate bundle of nerves they both knew so well. His tongue slipped out between his lips, lightly caressing her skin. She moaned sweetly and he smiled.
“The sooner, the better,” he whispered.
“I haven’t met a lot of spies, so maybe my information is out of date… but isn’t telling secrets kind of the opposite of what you are supposed to do?” Axel asked.
Alice laughed.
“It is frowned upon, yes,” she said. “In fact, I’m generally not supposed to give a straight answer about anything. A lot of looks this way then that way. Point up while looking down.”
Axel stared at Alice, she smiled as she spoke, but she stared down at the ground. He couldn’t see her expression, but he felt like it was sad.
“I should be flirting with you,” she said, suddenly turning up to look at him.
Axel’s breath caught in his throat, and his heartbeat thumped loudly in his ears as her chocolate eyes staring up at him caught him by surprise. He hadn’t noticed the golden flecks earlier.
Axel swallowed nervously.
Alice smiled.
“Do you see yourself as two different people?” she asked.
She brought her hand up to his face. She didn’t touch him but instead used her hand to cover the half of his face with his hair pulled down and then switched to the other half.
“The half people see, and the half you hide?” she smiled.
Axel reached his hand up and stopped hers from moving back and forth anymore. He gently lowered her hand to look into each other’s eyes again.
He wasn’t sure why, but he was worried about her. He hesitated to let go of her hand.
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