Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
Selene pushed her away. The man dressed to till the field and the one with the wooden toy viciously attacked her while smiling their kindest smiles.
“Stop!” Selene shouted. But even more of the Whiteridge wolves jumped her. “Get off me!”
“Their smiles are not real,” the Valkyrie said, “their appearance is also a lie.”
“Help me!” Selene shouted, now being overwhelmed by the wolves.
‘Selene…!’ his voice was getting louder.
“I am helping you,” the Valkyrie said.
Suddenly the wolves stopped moving. They froze mid-attack. Selene pushed her way out of the pile. Taking heavy breaths, she stared at the Valkyrie.
“What do you mean?” she demanded.
“I saved you from the poison, and now, I am quelling your rage.”
‘Selene… please!’
It was Alexander’s voice she was hearing.
“What is that?” Selene asked with a panic. “What’s happening?!”
“The source of your rage, your lack of confidence. It is here. I will remove it.”
‘Selene… come back! Come back to me!’ his voice was getting louder.
“No… No!” Selene shouted.
It all fell away. The trees of Summer, the attacking wolves of Whiteridge. Replaced by a large open cavern. Selene watched herself hitting Alexander, striking him multiple times, and throwing him against the cave wall.
“No!” she screamed.
She watched herself stalk towards another person, a man. He turned, and she saw now that it was Jackson. His eyes were swollen and bleeding. He clutched his hands against his stomach and tried to crawl away from her.
Alexander jumped on her back, pulling her down to the ground. He tried to hold her there, tried to call her back.
She threw her body against him, breaking his hold on her. She stood and kicked his ribs. He let out a pained groan.
“Stop! Stop!” Selene shouted through her tears. And to her surprise, her body froze.
She looked at the Valkyrie.
The Valkyrie stared back at her.
“Why.”
“You said you were quelling my rage. Alexander is not my rage!” Selene shouted angrily.
“He is a cause of rage.”
“No! No! I love him!”
“That one,” the Valkyrie nodded to Jackson, who continued trying to crawl away. “Is the reason you doubt yourself. The cause of weakened confidence.”
Selene swallowed. She looked back at Jackson, taking deep breaths through her nose. She remembered the way he had treated her, the way she had frozen up whenever he pushed her too far.
Selene took a shaky breath.
“Yes,” she said. “I was stronger than him, faster, a better fighter. But I felt small with him. So weak. Like I owed him something I didn’t want to give him. So I let him take pieces of me.”
“Does this weakness cause your rage?”
“Some of it,” Selene answered honestly. “I’m also afraid I might be like him.”
“How.”
“He… likes to hurt people… to kill people,” Selene said, swallowing down the nerves. “I think… I might too.”
“There is pleasure in all accomplishments. There is joy in a job well done.”
“What?”
“You are a wolf,” the Valkyrie said. “We live for the hunt. The kill is our reward. Do you believe that Alpha Geri did not celebrate the fall of Loki?”
The Valkyrie seemed to sigh.
“That one reeks of rotted blood and death. He does not hunt. He scavenges. His soul is rotted from the inside. You are not like him.”
Selene saw herself moving again. She walked to Jackson, picking him up and tossing him back toward Alexander.
“What are you doing?” Selene asked.
“Quelling your rage.”
“No, I told you, Alexander isn’t part of this….”
“He is a source of rage as well.”
“No, no, he is everything good in my life!” Selene shouted.
The Valkyrie raised her arm, and before them, an image appeared. It was Selene covered in blood, body parts scattered around her. She staggered and fell against a tree. She hugged it, barely able to hold her own weight.
She lifted her head, watching a short distance away as two men fought. Alexander used his strong legs to slam his knee into the man’s gut and threw him into a tree. Before shifting into his wolf and running back into the forest.
The scene paused, then it changed, focusing on Selene’s face just before she lost consciousness. The look of shock, horror, and anger. Covered in the blood of the men and women she had killed in unnecessary defense of him.
The Valkyrie waved her arm once more, and the image disappeared.
Selene wiped the tears that fell.
“I was angry,” Selene whispered. “How do I trust myself not to lose control… when I can’t even see the lies of the people closest to me.”
Her body moved again. She reached down and took a dagger from the belt at Jackson’s waist. She knelt down and held it to his throat.
“Quell your rage,” the Valkyrie said.
Jackson stared up at Selene taking shallow breaths. The cold steel of the blade against his throat. He licked his lips.
“Selene…” Alexander called to her. Begged her to come back.
“She’s gone….” Jackson replied with a twisted smile. “She’s lost in the rage and gonna kill us both.”
“Shut up,” Alexander growled. “Selene, please listen to me…”
“Do it, Selene… slit my throat,” Jackson gave her a crazed smile. “You’ll feel my death, my heart slowing to a crawl until nothing is left. Then, as my life is snuffed out, you’ll hold onto me as you feel that last moment. You’ll see me every time you close your eyes.”
Alexander growled angrily. He wanted to hit and shut him up, but he didn’t know what this Selene would do.
“No,” she whispered.
Alexander looked up at her eyes. Tears fell from the pools of moonlight, and slowly the light began to fade away.
“No,” she said a little louder. “I don’t need to kill you. I don’t need to hurt you.”
Selene threw the knife away.
“You have taken enough from me,” she said, standing up to look down at him. “I won’t take your miserable life because it means absolutely nothing to me.”
“Selene… that’s not very nice,” Jackson growled.
“I’m going to let you live, Jackson, so I can forget about you,” she said. “You will pay for all the pain you’ve caused. But as far as I’m concerned… you’re already gone.”
“You can’t do that….” Jackson retorted. “You can’t just forget me….”
Selene leaned forward.
“I already have,” she whispered.
Jackson growled.
“Alexander!”
“Selene!”.
Shouts came from the entrance of the cavern.
“Here!” Alexander shouted back, still staring at Selene.
Jackson tried to lunge at her, but Alexander was beside him. He grabbed and pulled him back, slamming him painfully to the ground.
Summer wolves came pouring into the cavern.
“Selene!” Fiona shouted loudly, running past the others to capture her in a tight hug.
Selene let out a laugh as she hugged her back.
“Get something to bind him,” Galen said to one of the wolves, pointing at Jackson. He reached out his hand to help Alexander up.
Selene gasped and pulled back from Fiona.
“The children!” she shouted. “Quick, follow me!”
Selene ran, and Fiona and her team quickly followed.
“Galen,” Alexander said.
“Yes?”
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