Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“Why would I know anything?” Wyatt asked. “As I said, I haven’t seen or spoken to your father in months.”
“I know,” Roman nodded, he sighed. “I know it sounds ridiculous. I just, I remembered that when I was younger, you were friends. I guess I just thought you might be able to think of something no one else had.”
Wyatt looked carefully at Roman.
“I haven’t been friendly with Tomas in a very long time, sorry,” Wyatt said, turning away from Roman. “I don’t think I can be of any help to you.”
Roman felt his jaw clench.
“Why is that?” he asked before he could stop himself. Feeling the frustration of holding his act beginning to chip away at the edges. “I seem to remember you coming around a lot back then.”
Wyatt turned back to Roman, eyeing him with suspicion.
“Back when?” Wyatt asked.
Roman licked his lips and swallowed. He tried to bring the warm smile back, but he could feel it slipping away.
“A few years back, six or seven. It was a little while before I left. I seem to remember you coming around a lot. You and dad talking in his office for hours. I always wondered what brought you two so close.”
Wyatt narrowed his eyes at Roman.
“As I said,” Wyatt said, “I don’t think I can be of any help to you.”
Roman looked away, taking a breath through his nose. Trying to push down the impatience, the call of his need.
“Why did you come to Autumn so often?” Roman asked, a hint of growl in his voice. “What were you there for, Wyatt.”
Wyatt stood up taller. He straightened his back and took a slow breath in.
There it was.
Roman’s mask had cracked, and Wyatt had seen it.
“Go home, Roman,” Wyatt growled. “You are no longer welcome here.”
Wyatt didn’t bother to wait for a reply, he simply walked out of the building.
Roman clenched his jaw, listening as the older man walked away. Then, when he was sure he was far enough not to hear, Roman reached down and grabbed the table’s edge. He lifted it into the air and flung it across the room to smash against the wall.
‘He knows something!’ he growled inside his mind. He took deep, heavy breaths as the anger flared into a raging inferno in his chest.
He had cracked his mask too soon, gotten too excited, too worked up. He was usually more controlled than this. How had he broken so quickly? Why was he feeling so shaken?
Roman closed his eyes. He thought of the short brown curls and the scent of chili peppers and bitter chocolate. Then, he saw the fire in her eyes.
His breathing slowed; his fires calmed.
He needed to return. He would find a way to make Wyatt talk, to find where he had hidden Bell away from him. But for now, he needed to see Alice.
Roman hurried to the door. He stepped out into the cold, taking another deep breath to clear his senses. Only, that did not happen.
His senses fired up once again as the fragrance hit the back of his throat. His salivary glands kicked into overdrive at the familiar sweetness in the air.
He turned slowly as the fire returned to his chest.
“Bell….” he growled through gritted teeth.
Corrine glanced at Axel. He gave her a nod, letting her know that he was okay now.
“I will give you two some privacy,” Corrine smiled as she left the office.
Axel motioned to the couch, and Selene came over to take a seat beside him.
“What did you want to talk about?” he asked.
Selene couldn’t help but notice the shine in his eyes, the slight redness, and the puffing of his eyelids. Had he been crying?
“Are you alright?” she asked.
Axel furrowed his brows and then stood from the couch, moving to pour himself a glass of water.
“Just tired,” he said. “It was a long night.”
Selene nodded and turned away.
“Speaking of last night,” she said. “Giving the flower to mom was an interesting choice.”
“What do you mean?” Axel asked, sipping from his glass. “The Alpha always gives the Luna the flower.”
“Yes, but the Alpha has always been mated to the Luna.”
“A technicality that doesn’t lessen the significance of the event, Lily was a mother to us all. I honored the best I could by giving the flower to my own mother, the Luna of Winter,” Axel sighed..
He was tired of this topic, thinking about it would only make the dream come back into his mind and his fears rise to the surface.
“Is this what you wanted to talk about?” Axel asked.
“Axel,” Selene said. “I’m going to ask you a question, and I want you to be honest with me.”
“Ok,” Axel said, sitting back down in the chair across from her. “What is it?”
Selene took a deep breath and looked Axel in the eye.
“Do you have a mate?”
Her words fell over him like a bucket of ice water. He felt chilled, numb, and an ache through his bones told him there was danger in this moment.
Selene watched his reaction, saw the momentary flash of panic and confusion, and in that, she got the confirmation she was looking for.
When Lily had let it slip that Axel had been mated, Selene’s first thoughts were sisterly.
A pout, at having not heard it from him first. A laugh, at how he had so clearly broken the tradition he had given her a hard time about. A smile, knowing that it meant he had found the person that would make him whole.
And a camaraderie in the feeling that she and he were the only ones in their shared world that had any idea about this momentous event in his life.
But the way he looked at her, the flash of panic and anxiety left her feeling something entirely different.
She clenched her jaw, knowing he had hidden it from her. She swallowed, as anger over the way he had yelled at her rose in her throat. She pursed her lips, as she wondered what kind of person he would feel the need to hide from his family.
Suspicion grew in her heart as she suddenly wondered if she really was the only person that knew or the only one that didn’t.
“Yes,” Axel finally answered. “I do.”
They looked at each in complete silence.
Twenty-four hours ago, Selene had been excited for this moment. To ask about the mystery woman in his life, to learn about her new sister. To share in the joy of having found the loves of their lives. So why did she feel so unsettled, so angry, so resentful?
“Finding your mate, it’s a happy thing,” Selene said. However, her expression and tone did not match her words.
“It is,” Axel agreed.
“Then why not announce it to the pack?” Selene asked. “Why give mom the flower instead of her?”
“How did you even find out?” Axel asked.
“Does it matter?”
“Yes, it does,” Axel said. “I need to know who told you. Because the people who know…. None of them would have betrayed me like that.”
Selene raised her brows and nodded her head, chewing on her bottom lip as the words sunk in.
“Betrayed you? Wow,” she sighed. “I know we’ve had our differences, but my knowing that you have a mate, is a betrayal?”
“I didn’t mean it like that….” Axel sighed.
“How did you mean it, big brother?” Selene asked as tears gathered and her jaw clenched. A tight knot formed in her belly.
Axel took a deep breath.
“My situation is complicated,” he said, looking away from her. “My mate is complicated.”
“I had a pretty complicated situation myself,” Selene replied.
“It’s not the same,” he said.
“Then what is it?” she asked. “What is so complicated, that the Alpha of Winter is willing to cast aside all our sacred traditions to claim his mate but unwilling to take responsibility for her.”
“Watch yourself!” Axel growled. “You know nothing about us!”
“Whose fault is that?” she asked.
Axel stared angrily at his sister. He was tired of hiding the truth, tired of trying to protect her feelings and give her time to understand.
She had her mate. She had accepted and brought him into their lives regardless of how Axel or anyone else felt about it.
Why should he care? Why should he tiptoe around her while his heart ached and screamed for the woman he loved?
No more lies.
“My mate…” he began. “Is Alice of Spring.”
Selene stood from the couch, taking slow deep breaths through her nose.
“There better be another Alice of Spring…” she growled through gritted teeth.
“As far as I know, there is only one,” he replied. “And she is my Luna.”
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