Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“Alice already basically told you that was the case,” Bell said.
“That’s true.”
“Besides, how else would she even know who I am? She told you to warn me, which means she had to know that I was hiding from him, and I assume why I’m hiding from him.”
“If Alice is worried….” Axel sighed. “Listen, I know you don’t know her, but if she’s concerned, it means the threat is real. So we need to take it seriously.”
“The threat was always real,” Bell sighed.
“I know. I just meant that Alice has been through a lot. She isn’t scared of much, but if she risked being caught to warn us… we need to take it seriously.”
“I am,” Bell said.
“I mean… you should ask Galen to come to Winter.”
Bell took a deep breath.
“I already told you–”
“I know,” Axel interrupted. “But I really think you should reconsider.”
“Didn’t you just say I have a whole pack ready to protect and defend me?” Bell smiled.
Axel swallowed and looked away.
“Axel?”
“Jackson got Selene from Summer without anyone knowing for an entire day.”
Bell turned away.
“Summer, as much as I hate to admit it, is far safer than Winter,” he said. “All their defenses and security measures… they didn’t see it happen. Here? Let’s be honest. He could be at your door before any of us realized it.”
She swallowed and took a deep breath through her nose.
“Jackson was only able to get Selene because Alice helped him,” she whispered.
Axel clenched his jaw and then looked to the ground.
Bell closed her eyes and internally punched herself.
“I’m sorry,” Bell sighed. “I shouldn’t have said that.”
“It’s fine,” he said. “I am fully aware that Alice and I have a long road ahead. Assuming we ever get to travel it.”
Axel took a deep breath.
“My point remains,” he said. “This pack will do everything it can to protect you, but I can’t always be with you. If Galen were here, he would be able to keep you safe.”
“I don’t want him to know who my mate is,” she said. “Or that he’s looking for me.”
“Bell–”
“Axel.”
Axel huffed.
“Do you really think it is the best idea to lie to your husband? To keep such a big secret?” he asked.
Bell took a deep breath and sighed.
“If you knew who it was that was causing all of the pain in Alice’s life, would you be able to hold yourself back?” she asked.
“I do know who it is,” Axel growled. “She begged me to stay away from him for my own safety.”
“How does that make you feel?” she asked.
“It kills me,” he replied honestly.
Bell smiled.
“I don’t want to do that to Galen.”
Axel sighed.
“He won’t thank you for that,” he said. “As I told you before, it’s cruel.”
“Roman has no reason to come to Winter,” Bell said. “Tomas is busy plotting this war and hates Roman enough to keep my secret for now.”
“At least move into Selene’s room,” Axel said. “That way, we can be sure you are safe between my parents and me.”
“That, I can do,” she smiled. “But not until tomorrow. Tonight, I am going to call my husband and get some rest. Then, in the morning, I will pack a bag.”
“Then tonight, I will stay on your couch,” he stated firmly.
“No, you won’t,” she laughed. “Are you trying to cause a scandal, my Alpha?”
Axel rolled his eyes.
“Everyone in Winter knows you are a sister to me,” he sighed.
“Hardly!” she laughed. “Do you know how many people had bets on when we would get into a relationship? My wedding day was the happiest day of my life, but some of the nurses growled and groaned at me because of the bets they had lost.”
“Why didn’t I hear about this?” he asked.
“You think these wolves want their Alpha to know there are bets on his love life?” Bell asked.
“Are? Currently?”
“Oh yes, I believe you have been connected to a berserker, one of the scouts, and a general bet of a lesser pack wolf,” Bell nodded.
Axel pinched the bridge of his nose.
“That is so ridiculous.”
“Wait until they find out the truth!” Bell laughed.
Axel chuckled, but his smile was half-hearted at best.
“Axel?” Bell called to him with concern.
“It’s nothing,” he said.
“You’re worried about how Winter will feel about Alice?” she asked.
Axel took a deep breath.
“Right now, I’m more worried about what’s happening to her,” he said. “In the note, she said she was taking another treatment.”
Bell let out a mournful sigh.
“Why would she do that?” Bell asked.
“I don’t know, but she gave me a phrase… I think it’s to wake her.”
“Wait… if she gave you a phrase… she must have done something to protect herself, like a safeguard against losing complete control this time.”
Axel nodded.
“Alice told me she had a cave in her mind that she could see out of. She was aware that she couldn’t do anything to affect her actions or what she was told to do.
“She talked about cracks in the window. How every time she had a treatment, this dark liquid would seep into the cracks and rush at her. She would climb the stone walls desperate to keep her head above water.”.
Bell was in tears once more. She sniffled and let out a shuddered breath as she listened to this tragic retelling of a real-life horror story.
“She would hang by her fingertips, clinging to the hope that she could keep this one small space where she was free,” Axel sighed. “I don’t want to believe she is trapped in that hole again.”
Bell thought carefully before she spoke. Then, she reached out to Axel and touched his shoulder.
“What you described sounds a lot like a controlled fracture to me. Alice is strong. Her will to survive and retain her mind is insane,” Bell said. “That hole is something she was forced into. Her mind was desperately trying to escape from what was happening, making a hole.”
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