Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
He was always close enough to see but never close enough to touch. If she moved towards him, he moved further away.
For weeks he stayed with her and her grandmother. Bell made no effort to communicate with him or Grandma Julia for weeks.
Finally, one day she was irritated. She wrote on her whiteboard. ‘Why are you always here? Why don’t you talk? Why do you always stay over there? Who are you? What do you want from me!’
He looked at the sign, and then he looked at her. Then, finally, he took one step toward her.
“My name is Axel,” he began. “I am here to make sure you’re safe. I stay away and don’t talk because you don’t know me and didn’t invite me here. I don’t want to make you uncomfortable; I just want to keep you safe.”
‘Why?’ Bell wrote on her board.
Axel thought about it for a moment.
“Because you don’t have a big brother,” he said. “A big brother is someone who looks out for you, helps you, and keeps you safe. I have a little sister. She’s younger than you, but she’s tough. She doesn’t need me to, but I look out for her the best I can. So I’d like to be your big brother if it’s ok with you.”
From that moment on, Axel helped Bell slowly return to the world she had wanted to escape. Through him, she learned to speak again, trust again, and care again.
She grew to accept Grandma Julia, Wyatt and Corrine, and Selene and Renee through him. These were the people that gave Bell the chance to live again.
Bell smiled to herself.
For so long, she had avoided thinking about that time, about the before and the after. Only wanting to exist in the now because the now didn’t hurt as much.
But when she promised her future to Galen. When she was able to see it, she stopped living only in the now.
Selene sat down beside Bell. She took a handful of popcorn and looked at her friend.
“What are you thinking so hard about?” she asked.
“Selene,” Bell said. “I want to ask a favor.”
“What’s up?” Selene asked.
“Would I be ok with you if I asked your dad and brother to walk me down the aisle?” Bell asked.
Selene stared at her but made no response.
“If you’re not comfortable with it, I totally get it,” Bell quickly said.
Selene laughed.
“Sorry,” she said. “I just didn’t realize that you didn’t know that was already the plan.”
Selene smiled and took some more popcorn.
Bell laughed. “Of course, it was.”
The day before the wedding was filled with last-minute changes to menus, flowers, or whatever else could need to be changed.
All of it was handled by Corrine, while Selene and Bell took the day to relax as they awaited the arrival of the Summer wolves that evening.
“So, do you want to know anything about Fiona?” Selene asked.
“Not really,” Bell said.
“Why not?”
“Because I’m pretty sure anything you tell me about her will only add to the already sky-high anxiety I am feeling about meeting her.”
“What if I tell you she is a sweetheart who will absolutely adore you,” Selene asked.
“Then I will call you a big fat liar pants because you’ve already told me she hates you.”
“Well, but I said she would love you, not me,” Selene corrected.
“But if she loves me, she would have to love you because we exist on the same level of awesome.”
“That is very true,” Selene laughed. “So, I guess you’re screwed.”
“Hey!” Bell threw a pillow at Selene.
“In all seriousness, I think Fiona will like you,” Selene said, hugging the pillow. “She’s good people. Just don’t hurt her sons.”
“I hope you’re right,” Bell smiled.
Selene smiled and clapped her hands together.
“Alright, so, let’s go over this once more,” she said. “Arriving from Summer, we have Luna Fiona, Alpha Alexander, Beta Galen, Clara, and two others whom you did not give me names for….”
“Galen didn’t give me names either!” Bell laughed. “He just said there would be two more to even out the party. One of them is a friend of Clara’s, and one of them is a friend of Fiona’s.”
“A friend of Clara’s?” Selene asked. “Like a friend… or a date?”.
“He literally did not get any more specific than a friend of Clara’s.”
“I bet it’s Miss Stacey!” Selene shouted with excitement.
“The teacher?” Bell asked, remembering what Selene had told her about trying to win over the wolves of Summer.
“Mmhmm,” Selene replied. “Clara kind of did a knight in shining armor and saved her and her students during the attack.”
“I thought you saved them?” Bell asked.
“No, me and a couple of others helped them out of the fire, but Clara actually shoved Miss Stacey out of the way to keep her from getting hurt and got herself hurt instead. She was all excited about saving the girl, so yea, I’m guessing it’s Miss Stacey.”
Selene was excited by the idea that Clara had got the girl, but then another realization hit her.
“Oh no…” she whispered.
“What?” Bell asked. “What’s wrong?”
“Miss Stacey is the biggest gossip in all of Summer… which means that this wedding has to be perfect.”
“I thought it had to be perfect because you love me and wanted my wedding day to be an amazing memory I will cherish forever,” Bell said with a raised brow.
“No, why would I want that? Obviously, I want this to be great so that all my efforts in Summer aren’t wasted….” Selene rolled her eyes sarcastically.
“Cherished memories.…” Selene scoffed dramatically. “Geez, how self-centered you are,”
Bell laughed.
“Alright, well, what is the threat to your precious reputation? Because I gotta say, Corrine has done an amazing job of pulling this thing together.”
“The wedding is amazing, and yes, it will be the best day ever for you,” Selene replied, getting up from her place on the couch. “I just need to go hogtie my brother and stick him in a closet somewhere.”
“Just make sure to free him when it’s time to walk me down the aisle!” Bell shouted after Selene’s retreating form.
Axel was genuinely happy for Bell, especially knowing she wouldn’t actually be leaving Winter.
But the wedding preparations were making him uncomfortable. So he made his way into the forest to one of the older watchtowers.
This one wasn’t used anymore, not after they found a location not far off with a better vantage and easier access for the patrolman. But it remained a place that he could go to be alone. Axel climbed the stairs to the top of the building. He took in a deep breath of cold air and leaned on the railing as he thought about the past week’s events.
With his memories no longer hidden, it was clear that Alice was his mate and that Holden, the slimy little worm, had given him that treatment.
But why didn’t he feel anything? Why didn’t they react to each other anymore?
He felt something. He must have. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have pushed. He wouldn’t have obsessed over the note that read like a lunatic’s ramblings to anyone else’s eyes.
“Shiny and new,” he sighed.
Axel assumed that meant that she was getting treatments regularly, and from what Peter had said, she was likely losing her mind.
“Found her, just to lose her…” he whispered.
“Found who?” Selene asked.
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