Chapter 270 – Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)

Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)

He had considered telling his family, but there were too many unknowns in Alice’s life. Her connection to Jackson and Holden, the things she had done in her past.

Axel knew that if he told Corrine about Alice, about how they met and how they lost each other, she would understand. But Axel also knew where he inherited his sense of justice. His father was a good man, but his mother was the one that could not stand on the sidelines and watch as wrong was committed..

She would insist on bringing Alice home.

As much as Axel wanted that, he had promised to trust Alice, and he would honor that promise. He believed that of every person he knew, Alice’s sense of danger was probably the most spot-on. A sad reality of the life she had lived.

Alice said it was too dangerous to come for her. He had to trust that she would find her own way out of that danger.

Until then, his focus needed to be on keeping Winter safe, preparing for war, and making it through each day to the next. Because one ‘next’ day would bring her back to him.

“Do you trust me?” Axel asked.

Corrine looked at him curiously.

“Of course,” she replied.

“Then I need you to trust that I am doing what I need to, and so is she,” Axel said.

Corrine took a deep breath and pushed it back out. She leaned back in her chair and shook her head.

“Why are my children’s love lives so complicated?” she sighed.

Axel laughed.

“Can you at least tell me one or two things?” Corrine pleaded.

Axel laughed once again.

“Like what?” he asked.

“First off, how long have you been hiding her from me?” Corrine asked. “You are not the type to get so swept up in the mate bond that you just do away with tradition in one night. And I know that mark was not there before you left Winter.”

“That’s a complicated question…” he said. After a moment he decided to share some of their story. “I don’t want to get into it, but years ago I was given the Bitter Night tea.”

“What?!” Corrine snarled, her eyes immediately beginning to glow.

“It happened a long time ago, only once,” Axel said immediately. “Peter reversed the process for me just before Bell’s wedding. I’m fine.”

Corrine let out a low growl.

“I’m fine,” Axel repeated. “The point is, I met her a long time ago. I just didn’t remember her. At least not in a way that I recognized. After Peter reversed the treatment… she was there. The answer to the hollow feeling I held inside of me for so long.”

Corrine’s eyes widened and then fell.

“Axel…” she said softly. “I had no idea you felt that way.”

Axel touched her hand and gave her a comforting smile.

“Neither did I,” he said. “It wasn’t something I could describe. Just a feeling that I was always a little lost. Missing something.”

Corrine took a deep breath, wishing she had paid more attention to her children.

“This isn’t on you,” Axel smiled. “Remember?”

Corrine chuckled.

“How dare you use my own wisdom against me,” she said playfully.

“I really am fine,” Axel repeated. “Finding her again was a chance encounter. But it was an opportunity I couldn’t waste. We needed each other. We needed to complete our bond.”

“Why aren’t you together, Axel?” Corrine asked sadly.

Axel pursed his lips and took a deep breath.

“’It’s complicated’, I know,” Corrine huffed with an eye roll to emphasize her irritation at his predictable response.

Axel chuckled and then sighed.

“All I can tell you, is that something happened, something bad. In order to resolve that bad thing, she had to go far away.”

“That does sound complicated,” Corrine replied woefully.

“Yea…” Axel replied.

There was a melancholy silence that hung between them, one that made it difficult for Axel not to think of Alice so far from him. He absentmindedly reached his hand to the back of his neck, gently brushing a small hidden braid for just a moment.

“Is there anything else you want to know about her? I mean that I can answer…” he offered.

Corrine smiled at him.

“What is she like? Is she pretty? What sort of person is she?” Corrine asked quickly.

Axel thought about his answer for a moment.

“Quirky, beautiful, and… she’s a fighter,” he replied, a soft smile on his lips as he thought about the short time they had together. Her softness, her strength.

“I see,” Corrine smiled, she crossed her arms on the table and laid her head down. Looking up at him with warmth in her eyes. “That, right there, is what I needed to see.”

“What?” he asked.

“The smile on your face, the way you think of her,” Corrine said softly. “There are people brought together by the mate bond that never develop beyond the bond. It’s not a guaranteed love, it’s a connection through our wolves. Love is something that happens between humans.”

Axel thought of Alice. How long had he loved her?

His mind fell back into memory…

“Boo!”

Axel jumped back, and the girl laughed.

He wanted to be mad, but the sparkle in her eyes as she laughed just made him smile. He couldn’t see them clearly in the moonlight, but now he saw they were a deep brown. Warm and light, with flecks of gold.

He smiled at her.

“Is it that funny to scare me?” he asked.

“It is!” she laughed.

“As long as it makes you smile,” he said softly.

‘Yea,’ he thought with tenderness as his mind returned to the present. ‘That was probably the moment.’

“What do you love about her? Corrine asked, shaking his thoughts.

“I can be honest with her… about anything,” he smiled. “We haven’t had much time together, but I know that I can trust her. That she trusts me.”

Corrine looked at Axel and sighed as she wished desperately to meet the woman that had made him smile this way.

“No matter what the situation is Axel, you bring her home,” she said.

Axel smirked and shook his head.

“I can’t,” he said.

“What? Why not?” she asked.

“Because stabbings and dragons,” he laughed to himself.

Corrine looked at him as though he had lost his mind.

Axel cleared his throat.

“She made me promise to take care of Winter and to save as many as I could from this war. And she promised to rescue herself.”

Corrine smiled. “I like her already.”

During the two weeks that Galen had stayed in Winter after their wedding, he and Bell had found their comfort and joy in each other.

It had taken several days of talking and playing ‘special’ games. But Bell had found herself finally able to remove the wall that she had built around herself. Or at the very least, the wall had been extended to allow enough room for Galen.

Once they had found their rhythm, Bell had found new and delicious ways to tease and torture her husband.

She often called him to get him worked up when she knew he was occupied in a way that wouldn’t allow him to ‘take care of it’. In return, when Galen was able to come home, he made sure to satisfy all of her needs.

They had barely entered their home when he grabbed her by the waist and forced her back against the door gently as he controlled her movement.

Galen’s lips fell hot on her throat, kissing and nibbling as his hands made their way under her shirt to massage and grope at her breasts. Barely begun and already he had chased her moans from her throat.

He expertly freed her breasts from her restrictive bra, his warm hands covered them, drawing a shudder from her lips as her already erect nipples were grazed by his palms.

He lifted her shirt just over her breasts, and his lips abandoned her throat as he got down on his knees before her. Taking her nipple into his warm, wet mouth, Bell moaned out as his tongue twirled and flicked over it. Teasing and stimulating her until the ache in her core grew, and she had dug the nails of one hand into his shoulder while the other was gripping his hair.

She held his head in place while pressing her shoulders back against the door and involuntarily arching her back. Galen recognized his wife’s needs immediately.

While he continued to suck and bite on her breast, his hand moved lower and unbuttoned her pants. He loosened them from her hips and then gently grazed her nipple with his teeth, causing her to arch back and roll her hips forward, making it easier for him to pull her pants down entirely off her..

Galen’s hands moved back up her legs and over her thighs, reaching the edge of her panties, he made quick work of removing them so that nothing stood between him and his ultimate goal.

Bell was taking short, gasping breaths as the anticipation and pleasure were building within her. She let out soft whimpers, and he felt the small movements of her hips toward him.

Galen pulled away from her breast with one last nip that sent a jolt through her, forcing a whimper and a moan.

He gently pushed her legs apart and inhaled her musky scent as he positioned his mouth between her legs. Next, Galen moved his hand above her mound, using his thumb to gently stroke her clit until Bell took short quick breaths. Then, he used his fingers to spread her lips before leaning in and tasting her.

Bell gasped and whimpered, as his tongue twirled and lapped at her center. Her hand was back in his hair, gripping it roughly as he moved his thumb over the sensitive spot while his tongue teased her further.

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