Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“Holding the memory back is weakening her. Making her vulnerable.”
“You are not bound anymore, but she, like the rest of us, is!” Lian shouted. “You will destroy her by forcing her to remember too soon!”
Lian bent down before Selene, lifting her chin to look into her eyes. Selene saw fear, concern, and slight panic.
“Selene, can you hear me?” Lian whispered.
Selene nodded.
“Good, listen to me,” Lian said. “I cannot help you now. When you wake up, you will have to suffer through the pain. I am sorry. But you must not force your memory. It will kill you.”
“Why?” Selene asked through gritted teeth as another sharp spike stabbed at her brain.
“It is the Goddess’ will,” Lian sighed. “There are things you cannot know until it is time. I was allowed to share the truth with you only because things are coming, things you will need to do, and you needed to be able to agree to them of your own free will. But you agreed to forget until the time is right.”
“How… am I supposed to know… when that is?” Selene pushed through the pain.
“When it is time, you will remember it all,” Lian replied.
Selene cried out as another flare of pain shot through her skull and into her spine.
Lian licked her lips. She looked in either direction and then leaned in close.
“You must discover what Cain learned. Once you know– AAAGHH!!”
Lian screamed as she grabbed her own head and fell to her knees. She lifted her chin, and Selene saw the same bloody tears she had seen on her own face.
“Lian…” Selene whispered, trying to reach out to her.
Lian screamed once more, and then the light around them grew blinding.
Alexander woke with a sudden feeling of dread. He looked beside him and saw that Selene was missing. He turned to look out toward the water.
“Selene!” he screamed as he saw her body crumpling to the ground.
He leaped out of bed and pulled open the doors so quickly that they slammed against the walls inside the villa.
“Selene!” he called out to her, picking her up into his arms and taking her back to the bed.
He turned on the light on the nightstand and gasped as he saw the blood trails coming from her eyes, ears, and nose.
“Selene!”
Selene spent the next several hours struggling with the pain in her skull. Alexander stayed beside her, trying desperately to calm and ease her suffering. With a warm washcloth, Alexander could wipe away the blood, relieved to see that the bleeding had not continued.
He held her in his arms as long as he could, but she thrashed, wailed, and pushed him away. After the first hour, he was sick with worry.
Outside the werewolf territories, he couldn’t risk taking her to a hospital. So, he called Bell. She told him that Selene had experienced something similar before and had something to do with a lost memory and the Priestess.
Bell told him to stay by her side and let her ride it out. Taking her on the plane in this condition would likely only worsen things. But they should fly home first thing in the morning rather than waiting for the evening as they had planned.
Alexander got off the phone and sat down beside his wife. He held her hand and watched as the pain continued to wreak havoc on her body. He wiped the sweat from her brow and talked to her, whispering that he was with her.
Every once in a while, she would grip his hand tightly and whimper with tears falling from her eyes.
Alexander didn’t understand why she couldn’t share her pain with him, he tried to reach out to her through their bond, but it was as if she had closed a door between them. All he could do was stand outside, telling her how much he loved her and reassuring her that he was waiting just outside.
After three hours, her cries had tapered off into whimpers and soft sobs. Finally, Alexander was able to climb back into the bed with her and hold her in his arms. He held to her tightly, kissed her head, and poured his warmth into their bond, hoping she would accept it.
Alexander was still holding her long after her sobs and whimpers had turned to slow, deep breaths letting him know she had fallen asleep. He pulled her close and kissed her gently, not wanting to wake her. Finally, he fell asleep, breathing her calming scent.
He woke with the sunlight shining through his closed eyes. He turned and shook his consciousness to full wake. Sitting up on his elbows, he yawned and opened his eyes. He turned to check on her and was shocked to see that he was alone.
Quickly pulling the sheet off himself, he jumped up from the bed and looked around the room.
“Selene!” he called out in a panic.
“I’m here,” she answered quickly, emerging from the bathroom with a fuzzy white robe and towel in her hand. Her hair was wet and hung down around her face and shoulders..
Alexander let out a deep breath.
“Sorry,” she said, “I just wanted to clean myself up a little.”
“It’s ok,” he smiled, “I was just….”
“Worried?” she asked with a smile. “I’m sorry.”
“It’s ok,” he repeated.
“Since I woke up, I’ve been debating how I was going to navigate a conversation about what exactly happened last night,” Selene said. “But the awkwardness between us right now just lends itself to jumping into it.”
Alexander gave a light chuckle.
“How about this,” he said, grabbing his pants from the end of the bed and slipping them on. “Why don’t you finish drying off and getting dressed, and I will go grab us some breakfast. We can talk while we eat.”
“I’m actually not very hungry,” she said. “I’m assuming we’re heading home this morning instead of tonight?”
Alexander nodded.
“Bell said it would be best to get home, get you checked out,” he replied.
“Makes sense,” she said, moving the towel in her hand to start drying her hair.
“Let me,” he said.
Alexander took the towel from her hand and then led her to sit on the bed. He also sat down, leaning against the pillows, and she moved to sit between his legs.
He grabbed a section of her hair and gently scrunched it in the towel with his fingers.
“So… Bell said this has happened before,” Alexander said quietly, continuing to focus on drying her hair.
“Yes, once… well, twice, but the first time I didn’t have the pain… or the bleeding.”
“What is it exactly?”
“A memory,” she said.
“Seems like a violent one,” he replied.
Selene let out a soft laugh.
“No,” she said. “It’s the conversation I had with the Priestess when she told me about my twin, about you.”
Alexander paused.
“I’m the reason for this?” he asked with concern.
“No,” Selene replied. “There was more to that conversation than I know.”
She sighed and turned to look at him.
“The Priestess apparently told me some important stuff. Something I agreed to and then agreed to have my memory wiped of it ‘until it was time’ or some crap like that,” she said with frustration.
“Do you know what it was?” Alexander asked.
“Not exactly,” she said. “I learned a little more last night, but I wasn’t supposed to. That’s why the pain and the blood… apparently if you try to learn what the Goddess doesn’t want you to… pain, blood, etcetera.”
“The Goddess is involved in this?” Alexander asked with wide eyes.
Selene laughed.
“I’m sorry… I should have started from the beginning.”
“Please do,” he smiled.
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