Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“Not done,” Bell said, raising her hand to stop him. “I met him a long time ago, and I left him a long time ago. But between those long time agos, he was not a good guy.”
Alexander’s jaw clenched, and his grip on the armrest of his chair tightened.
“I won’t go into details, suffice it to say, there are physical and mental scars,” she continued. “He doesn’t exist in my world. I hope he never does ever again for the rest of all eternities and forevers. But I needed Galen to know the truth if we were really going to try to have a go of things between us.”
Alexander relaxed sadly. Galen… he looked back at the door to their shared room.
“He will be okay,” Bell reiterated.
“I know,” Alexander sighed. He looked back at Bell. “How are you doing?”
Bell smiled.
“Peachy.”
“Bell…” Alexander said gently.
“Careful, saying my name all sweet like that. Selene and Galen might get the wrong idea,” Bell winked dramatically.
Alexander laughed.
“I’m dealing,” she said.
“If you need anything.”
“I know,” she said. “Selene, Galen, my three alphas, you. I get it, guys…you love me… you’re obsessed with me. Blegh.”
Bell smiled; Alexander smiled in return.
She had a strength he admired.
“Your three alphas?” he asked.
“Mmhmm,” she nodded.
“Alpha Wyatt, ‘Alpha’ Axel,” she said with air quotes. “And Alpha Corrine.”
Alexander raised his eyebrows.
“Alpha Corrine?” he asked.
Bell tilted her head and crossed her arms.
“Tell me that woman isn’t an Alpha… go on… I’m waiting.”
Alexander laughed.
“No, you’re right.”
A ringtone interrupted their laughter. Bell answered her phone, and after a series of ‘yea ok’s and dramatic sighs, she hung up the phone and got to her feet.
“Well, surprise, surprise, the hospital is falling apart without me. And Peter is ready to jump from the top of the building. So, I better go.”
“Sure,” he nodded. “Just one more thing before you go.”
Bell smiled.
“I’m not going to tell you,” she said. “Galen already asked. Actually, the only one who has never asked is Selene.”
“I could probably find out who he is if I tried,” Alexander commented.
“But you won’t,” she said.
“No, I won’t,” he sighed.
“You all mean well, but there is no reason for anyone to know his name. If I could forget it, I would too.”
She waved and glanced back at the door once more before she turned to leave.
“He will be okay,” Alexander reassured her this time.
Bell smiled but didn’t look back.
Axel settled into his room. Wyatt had gone to stay with Richard, but Axel didn’t want the reminder. He told his father he thought it would be too crowded and opted to stay in one of the bar’s guest rooms instead.
He reached into his backpack, looking for a snack. Instead, he was surprised to see a gift wrapped box inside.
Axel pulled out the box and set it down on the table. The tag said who it was from, Alice. He wanted to open it, but it felt strange.
He took a deep breath, reached his hand out, flipped the lid off the box, and took a step back. Nothing happened. Axel approached the table slowly.
He peeked inside and let out an embarrassed chuckle.
Axel pulled out the small kaleidoscope, turning it in his hands. It made him smile, but then he remembered how she had talked about it. She had sounded so sad.
Why would she give him this?
He looked back down into the box. The silver packaging caught his eye just like the night he had found one on the bench.
“Guess it was you that left it there…” he whispered with a smile.
He reached in and pulled out the 3Musketeers.
Beside it, there was a note that simply read. [Eat Me.] with a heart and her name.
It seemed like a strange message, but she was a strange girl.
Axel peeled away the wrapper with his teeth as he continued to look at the kaleidoscope in his hand. He took a small bite from the corner of the bar before setting it back down to focus on the toy.
He smiled as the sweetness spread over his tongue.
Axel brought the kaleidoscope up to his eye.
He grinned as he recognized buttons, beads, and shiny confetti pieces. He turned it once, and his smile fell.
It looked like grains of rice, but words were written on them. They were out of order, but the message seemed simple enough to understand.
‘Don’t’
‘Eat’
‘Poison’
Axel hurried to the bathroom, spitting and desperately trying to wash his mouth out. He dropped the kaleidoscope to the floor as he ran.
It cracked. The items inside spilled out, buttons, beads, and several grains of rice, with the exact same words repeated.
A small folded paper was just slightly visible inside of the toy’s casing.
Selene and Axel had spent the last few days before she left for Summer in heated arguments. It seemed like every little thing they could argue about, they would.
They didn’t agree on Alexander, and they definitely didn’t agree on Alice.
After Selene had heard that the ceremony in the South had been pushed back a night, she knew something was wrong. When her father and brother returned, they told her about the ‘gift’.
Axel had some minor issues, some fever, and a severe headache. But nothing life threatening.
Bell ran tests on the candy but could not identify what was in it. There was something but nothing she had ever seen before. Both she and Selene suggested asking Alexander to look into it, but Axel refused.
He insisted that whatever it was, it wasn’t lethal. And that there was no reason for another pack to investigate a personal issue for him.
Selene demanded that, at the very least, this action violated the treaty and that Alice and, by extension, Spring should be held accountable. Again, Axel refused.
Wyatt agreed that if there was no proof that the candy bar was lethal, they could not rightfully claim the peace was broken.
Axel made a point to say that Alice was not to blame, that she had warned him.
After that, Selene and Axel couldn’t hear anything the other said.
He did make sure to remind her that the business of Winter was not information she could share with Summer, especially not with their Alpha.
And so, Selene left Winter angry and eager to focus on building her relationship with Summer.
Her arrival was expected, and this time no angry Luna was waiting for her, only an Alpha with a dangerously charming smile.
“I didn’t expect a welcome party or anything, but not even Galen came to greet me?” she laughed as she approached Alexander.
“I demanded that your attention be all for me,” Alexander grinned as Selene leaned down to greet him with a teasing kiss..
“I’ve already won you over. I need to win them,” she smiled.
Alexander growled softly. He took her hand in his, feeling the light thrum of her heartbeat against his thumb, he kissed her wrist.
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