Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
I whispered, clutching at his chest.
Reuben looked at me for a moment before asking, “Don’t you trust me?”
“I do, but ”
My voice trembled as I met his gaze, a tear escaping. “What if we’re not meant to be together?”
“What do you mean?”
he frowned.
My throat went dry when I said what I had never wanted to even think, “What if we are not soulmates?”
I bottled up my feelings as my heart broke into a million pieces. Suddenly I felt Reuben’s warm hand cupping my cheek. I could not help but open my eyes and look at him.
“That’s it?”
A faint smile tugged at his lips as he leaned closer to me.
“That’s it? If we do not turn out to be soulmates then we can’t be together Reuben. It will be the end for us,”
a tear raced down my cheek. The mere thought of being bonded to someone other than Reuben shattered my heart. I couldn’t fathom a life without him.
He gently brushed away the tears at the corners of my eyes and murmured, “Look deep into my eyes ”
“What?”
I blinked with wet lashes.
“Do what I say,”
he rubbed my lower lip.
I followed his instructions and locked eyes with him.
“Keep looking until you see it.”
he whispered.
“See what?”
I asked, listening to him. At that moment, I saw a green-eyed black Alpha wolf gazing back at me through Reuben’s eyes. When our eyes met in my mind Reuben and my wolf echoed the word, “Mate
I gasped at the resounding words reverberating in my mind, realizing it was my wolves emerging from within me. My wolf was acknowledging the Alpha in front of me as its mate. Reuben was my soulmate
“How is this ”
I choked on my words.
A faint smile graced Reuben’s lips, “I recognized you the day our eyes first met, Willow.”
My eyes widened. “What?”
My voice barely rose above a whisper. So he’d been waiting for me during the past four years, restraining himself? “Why did you do that? Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Is there anything sweeter than earning the love of your soulmate before the revelation of a mate bond?”
He gently lifted my chin and tenderly brushed his lips against mine. “I had to win your love, Willow. Not just through a mate bond, but a love that would bind you to me forever,”
he raised my hand that held the ear ring. When he moved it closer to his ear my eyes widened sensing his intention. As I tried to take my hand back, he held my hand tightly so that I would focus on him as he pierced his ear with the earring. Thick blood dripped from his ear as he promised, “A love that will never fade Willow ”
Willow
“Let me love you again ”
he whispered with Dex in his eyes.
The whole garden fell into a dead silence when they heard Reuben. Frozen down to my very soul, I stared at him with wide eyes. What what did he just say Ceri had completely faded from my head when the pack members began to come out of their shock and get up from their seats one by one in surprise.
“How is this possible?”
Slowly gossip filled the garden.
“Did I hear that correctly? Willow is the Alpha’s soulmate?!”
“Now it finally makes sense, that’s why Willow was able to give birth to the Alpha’s children.”
“True, they have been soulmates from the beginning!!”
“But if the Alpha is Willow’s soulmate then what about Ella?”
One by one everyone looked at Ella who was still sitting in her chair like a statue. After the revelation of Wyatt and Lori late yesterday, she was on the receiving end of another knock down by a second secret less than twelve hours later. Her eyes were as large as an owl and mouth was wide. Oran, Bix, and Ella had known about Reuben and I’s love for each other since we were in school together but none of them had ever known that we were soulmates to boot. That secret had always remained hidden between Reuben and I up until this point.
Ella could not help but shift her gaze to Oran who stood some distance away with a casual expression on his face. Until she realized that everyone’s attention was now on her.
“Is not Ella, the Alpha’s fiancee?”
“What will happen to her? I heard their marriage is unavoidable.”
Listening to the pack members knocked the sense back into me. Reuben’s wedding to Ella was unavoidable? I looked at Reuben but he still he still
A shiver ran down my spine when I sensed everyone’s hash judging expression finally being cast in my direction. Suddenly the demons that I had long feared while residing in this pack six years ago began lurking around the yard as I began to feel everyone’s disgust for me like a layer of film on my skin. The people that had been smiling at me earlier, in my mind, seemed to be laughing at me now. I could feel the years of anxiety and fear that had almost chained me to the point of being immoble as I waited for my biggest secret to be revealed.
My head spun and I felt like throwing up. My breathing became so uneven that I felt suffocated. I broke out of Reuben’s arms and walked away from the garden with clipped steps.
“Willow!”
Reuben called after me but I continued walking into the woods without looking back. I had to be alone. I needed to breathe. I needed to get away from Reuben
“WILLOW!!”
he roared but I did not so much as glance back. His roar mixed with the thunder and lightning that had grown worse in the sky with the dark clouds over my head.
Moving deeper into the woods, my walk turned into a jog before I began running faster but no matter how fast I ran, Reuben’s words followed me like shadows
“Willow, will you give me a chance at redemption?”
“Let me love you again Willow ”
“No ”
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