Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
Oran firmly commanded, addressing the woman whose wide brown eyes were fixed on Wyatt and Lori as if she’d seen a ghost.
“Willow how ”
Ella’s pale face held questions about Willow’s pregnancy from six years ago. The curiosity was evident, but Willow pressed her hands against her children’s ears, shielding them from Ella’s impending inquiries.
Dex growled in my mind at the look Ella had been giving my children and my mate, “They’re mine, that’s all outsiders need to know,”
I interrupted firmly, cutting off Ella’s line of questioning.
“Outsiders ”
She gazed at me in disbelief, incredulous but I couldn’t care less.
Disregarding her, I turned to Oran. “Oran, mind-link the omegas incharge of the kitchen and get food ready. Wyatt and Lori need to eat.”
“Okay,”
Oran nodded. I moved closer to Willow and lifted Wyatt and Lori into my arms and then grabbed her hand.
“Let’s go,”
I whispered. She looked from my hand then back to me. Her eyes held a mix of emotions as I held her hand and ushered her and our children out, ignoring the others in the room. She followed me down the stairs without any protest or trying to get free from my grip on her hand.
I felt Wyatt and Lori’s gaze on my face all the way. I looked at them and smiled.
“Did daddy scare you two?”
I softly asked, realizing that I had unintentionally frightened their innocent minds.
“No, daddy! You’re really cool when you half-shift!”
Wyatt’s childish voice brimmed with excitement, his green eyes sparkling with surprise and admiration as he finally broke his silence. So they were not actually scared back there? My children knew when and where to speak, showing their sensible nature.
“Yeah, daddy, you were like a prince charming fighting for your princess!”
Lori giggled.
I couldn’t help but laugh at Lori’s comparison of me to a prince charming for Willow. “My children have better sense than some people,”
I remarked, glancing at the she-wolf walking beside me.
Willow caught the meaning behind my words and pulled her hand back right away, “Yes, that’s what they call an innocent mind. They can’t see the devil hidden behind the mask of prince charming,”
she commented, heading to the dining table ahead of us.
Wyatt and Lori hopped down from my arms and settled onto the chairs that the Omega had just pulled out for them after serving the food. I turned to respond to Willow, admitting, “True, I’m a devil behind a prince charming mask.”
Placing my hand on the back of her chair, I continued, “I’m the worst, and I don’t regret it. It’s just that some people don’t understand me.”
Willow looked up at my eyes that were full of sincerity but suddenly as if she recalled something her eyes grew emotionless as she stated, “Even your fiance doesn’t understand you?”
My eyes instantly went blank when I heard her using the word fiance. “You used my children and the Wade Moon Pack to drag me back here in order to complete a rejection. A rejection that you can’t marry her without. So how is it that your fiance doesn’t understand you?”
Her words were laced with venom meant just for me.
I knew that once this particular bit of information was known to Willow, she would hate me more than ever. That was why I had hidden it in the first place. I wanted to reveal it to her myself once everything had been started going well between us but Bix and Ella showed up out of blue fucking with my plan.
Being paired with another she-wolf by Willow caused Dex to growl in my mind. “Willow, let me clear something up for you,”
I dug my nails into the chair, leaned down towards her face, and whispered, “
There is nothing between Ella and I. We are engaged only on paper,”
There was a sudden change in Willow’s eyes after hearing that statement. “On paper? How?”
My heart tingled when she was finally ready to listen to me, “Yes, it is just on paper. Years ago, I faced a situation where I had to sign those papers, but it meant nothing to me or Ella. I don’t love Ella,”
I raised my hand to touch her soft cheek. “She is just a friend just like she was years ago. She knows about it as well and she does not like or love me either. I am not marrying her ”
I revealed the whole truth. Willow’s hearbate intensified as she silently stared at me. Dex got excited in my mind as I felt her emotions being soothed, there was no more hatred in her eyes for me. “I only want you..”
“Reuben,”
Oran arrived in the dining room, interrupting me. Willow saw Oran and quickly pushed my hand away from her cheek and sat up straight in the chair.
I was close to make Willow believe me if Oran had not come. I gritted my teeth at him, “What?”
“There’s an urgent matter,”
his expression was serious.
I took a deep breath to control my emotions and responded, “I’m coming,”
Oran nodded and left the packhouse. I turned back to Willow. At this point, I had no idea if she believed me even a bit or not. She had started eating like I had said nothing, “I’ll be back late tonight.”
She paused and glanced at me, “Why are you telling me?”
She looked confused.
“So that you don’t wait for me,”
I clarified.
It took her a couple of minutes to comprehend. “I’m not staying in your room, Reuben,”
she firmly declared.
I frowned and leaned closer, placing a hand on either arm of her chair, and meeting her intense eyes, “Impossible.”
She also looked at me firmly and said, “then I’ll stay in the guest room,”
she countered.
“No,”
I firmly disagreed.
“Then on the first floor,”
she argued.
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