Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
“Willow, is it true?”
Ella, who had been too shocked to speak earlier, smiled and walked over to me. That’s wonderful news,
Bix stopped her halfway across the room bitterly spitting out, “Why are you smiling at the woman who is in your man’s arm on the first day of her return?”
Ella bit her lip and lowered her head as if she was holding back tears.
“Her man? What do you mean?”
I questioned, glancing at Reuben once.
“It’s nothing,”
Reuben interupted with a growl as he glared at Bix, “What the fuck you are you doing here when I didn’t call for you? Get out!”
Ella flinched and said, “Bix, let’s go,”
she whispered, following the Alpha’s order. She turned to leave while Bix shot me a hateful glare and turned to follow her.
“No, wait!”
I shouted and broke out of Reuben’s hold. “Tell me why you said that?”
I demanded of Bix. Ella also stopped but did not turn to look at me.
“Don’t pretend to be innocent when the whole world has found out about it in the news,”
Bix turned to me sharply and said, “Ella is Reuben’s fiancee.”
Willow
Ella was the daughter of a powerful Alpha but she was a member of the Emerald Bright Pack. This was due to Reuben’s father, Alpha Luis Emerald, taking her in after the death of her parents at a young age. The two packs had been allies for decades. Of course, Ella stood to inherit her parents pack when she came of legal age, it was at that point that she could take over the running of it.
After I joined the Emerald Bright Pack, Ella became my first friend. She was cheerful and friendly unlike me who spent most of my time finding part time jobs to pay my tuition fees and living expenses. I was a new member of Emerald Bright Pack and an orphan Omega. Ella and I went to the same school and we spent more time together, Ella became my best friend in a year. She told me all her secrets, her love interests, her exs and boyfriends but I could never do the same as my life was full of secrets and mysteries especially when it came to my love interest
“Willow, do you have a boyfriend?”
We were at a club, where Ella had dragged me along with her after school. A boy questioned me as everyone sat around the table playing truth or dare and unfortunately the bottle stopped on me.
My hand froze on my glass as everyone’s curious eyes fixed on me. Especially Oran and Bix who were Reuben’s best friends. They were both friendly and mostly curious about me from the beginning because the aloof, self centered, and short tempered Reuben had personally brought me in the pack. The other survivors of the rogue trafficking ring were labeled rogues and set free to go their own way but Reuben refused to let me go into the woods and die. He never let Emerald Bright or Alpha Luis know that I was one of the survivors so I was not labeled a rogue but a normal Omega that people normally did not pay attention to.
“I don’t have a boyfriend,”
I answered. Judging by the expressions of many of them, it was clear that they did not believe me.
“Then do you like someone?”
someone else asked, “There are a lot of hot guys at school,”
they winked.
As soon as this question registered in my brain, my heart started beating wildly in my chest, and his face came to my eyes. I subconsciously raised my eyes and looked at a dark corner of the club where I had been feeling someone’s eyes on me for a long time. I had yet to get my wolf but still I had a strong feeling of being watched.
The more I thought about it the more sure I was then a couple came sneaking out of the dark corner. The woman’s makeup was messed up and the man was fixing his pants. The couple walked away like they had not done anything. I blinked in surprise. It turned out, I was over thinking. There was not anything there. This was my first time visiting a club. Even though I was with my friends, every little thing was getting my attention.
“Hey, you are taking way too long to reply,”
Bix stated dryly.
I focused back on them and just before I was about to answer Ella spoke up, “Guys, don’t tease Willow just because you are seniors,”
she wrapped her arm around my shoulders and glared at Bix especially. Oran and Bix were two years older than us and in the same class as Reuben, “Willow is shy and a good girl. She does not like anyone,”
Ella replied, that’s what she always assumed about me.
Yes, I was a little shy and maintained a healthy distance from boys but I was not a good girl.
I just smiled at them until Ella got a call from one of our classmates that was running late. She was short on money and she needed to pay for a taxi.
“This girl! Always forgets to grab enough money before leaving the house!”
Ella gritted her teeth as she did not want to leave the game.
Before Ella could get up, I stopped her, “Ella, you play the game, I will go and help her,”
I got up.
“Are you sure?”
Ella asked.
“Yes,”
I smiled, grabbed my purse, and turned to leave. Passing by people that were dancing and chatting, I opened my purse to pull out money when suddenly a strong hand grabbed my arm. I yelped but a hand was pressed to my mouth as I was pulled into the isolated area of the club.
When my back touched the wall and a tall hard chest pressed against, my eyes shot open to see my capture.
“SHHH ”
he slowly pulled his hand away from my mouth.
“You ”
my eyes widened at finding Reuben there. He had been out of the town for the last two days only to suddenly appear here.
“Were you expecting someone else?”
He wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him. “Tell me Willow, were you expecting someone else?”
“No,”
I gasped and put my hand on his chest as our lower bodies touched each other. He was too tall and always bold whenever he touched me. Even though we had yet to cross that line, his every touch and soft gaze used to set my body on fire.
“Why did you say you don’t like anyone?”
he softly touched my cheek, his breath fanning my face. My heart quickened at his words. My feelings were correct. Reuben had been in the club watching me. “Tell me Willow, why did you lie?”
He raised my chin.
“The two of us being together is impossible, Reuben,”
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