Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“That’s all right. I’m actually calling to speak with you.”
Alice furrowed her brow. She glanced back at Bell and Peter. They were still going over the final details and setting up the equipment. She got up from the chair and stepped outside the door to continue her conversation.
“With me?” Alice replied with exaggeration. “And to what do I owe this honor? Oh, great Luna of Summer.”
“Stop,” Selene said quietly.
Alice was surprised. She knew that she got under Selene’s skin a lot of the time, but this must’ve been a record.
“I’m sorry,” Selene continued, surprising Alice yet again. “I know you and Myka are close. I heard what happened.”
Alice swallowed but said nothing.
“Look, I know you’re going through something terrible right now. But I really need to ask you something, and I swear it is important.”
Alice was intrigued.
“I’m all ears.”
She could hear Selene take a deep breath on the other end of the line.
“Do you know who Myka’s parents are?”
Alice felt a chill down her spine. She remembered his father lying on the ground, convulsing, as the foam trickled from his lips. She remembered his mother falling to her knees as the blood pooled beneath her.
“What an interesting question,” Alice replied in a neutral tone.
“Please, Alice, I swear it is important.”
“I’m afraid, Selene, I struggle to trust in people’s word. Myka’s parents have been gone for a very long time, so I fail to see how they could matter now. Especially to someone who couldn’t possibly have known them.”
“Fine, you don’t have to tell me who they were. But can you tell me if it’s possible that Myka was Luna Irina’s younger brother?” Selene asked.
Alice felt a tight grip on her chest. She was shocked, confused, and concerned. Selene had a tendency to bring to light hidden information that posed a danger to the people around her. But she was an inherently good person. She would not be seeking to hurt Myka.
With a deep sigh, Alice decided to trust in Selene.
“You are full of surprises, Selene,” Alice smiled. “Very few people knew the truth about who Myka was. Even the ones that saw him every single day, that ‘treated’ him.”
Alice clenched her jaw at the thought of the lab. At the thought of that small boy, shocked, cut, tested on over and over.
She took another deep breath.
“Before she discovered her bond to Gorn, Irina and her parents were free of many of the harsh realities of Spring. They lived quietly along a lake and had little interaction with others. But once she became his, he made sure she would never have an escape route.
“He took control of her parents and fed them drugs to keep them compliant and loyal. When Gorn found out that they were expecting a pup, he chose Myka as one of his pets in order to strengthen his hold on Irina.
“Yes, Myka is her one and only brother. She never knew him. But from what I hear, she would have died for him. Which is why he was a perfect toy in Gorn’s chest.”
Selene’s deep inhale through the phone line was shaky.
“How do you know all this?” Selene asked.
Alice scoffed sarcastically.
“My father took very detailed notes,” she sighed. “Now, tell me Luna of Summer, what is so important about knowing Myka’s origins?”
Alice turned and glanced back inside the room, they were prepping for the transfusion now.
“Irina was a descendant of the original Luna of Spring,” Selene said. “She didn’t go crazy, not in the way that everyone thinks. She had abilities left over from her ancestors, but one she didn’t know about. An ability to hear the life of the forest.”
Alice furrowed her brow.
“Wolves can’t cast magic…” she said, confused by what Selene was implying.
“It’s not casting, it’s just a part of her. She probably never even realized that it was a power.”
“That seems… crazy,” Alice stated.
“Crazier than a wolf whose blood can heal someone almost back from death?” Selene asked.
“Bell…” Alice whispered, turning her eyes to focus on the dark-haired woman.
Bell had sat down in the chair beside Myka’s bed, preparing her arm for the transfusion.
“Yes,” Selene replied. “She is a descendant of the Autumn Luna; they both have unique blood.”
Alice felt that strange scratching at the back of her mind again.
“Unique… blood…” she whispered.
“But that’s not what matters right now,” Selene continued. “What matters is that I need Myka’s help with an important mission, and probably yours too.”
“Well… he’s a bit indisposed at the moment, dear, but I can take a message?”
Selene sighed her annoyance.
“This is serious, Alice, the fae in him could be the solution to a very big problem.”
‘…the fae in him….’
The words echoed in Alice’s mind. She looked at Bell, who smiled and gave Peter a reassuring wink. Peter nodded and then looked down affectionately toward Myka, he ran his fingers through his hair and leaned down to kiss his forehead.
‘…they have unique blood….’
An image from Alice’s medical records popped into her mind, a report on the blood she had received from Bell. Unique markers she had never seen before.
Suddenly Alice realized that she had just recently seen very similar markers on a blood panel. Her eyes widened, and she dropped the phone. Alice pushed through the doors and cried out fiercely.
“Stop! You can’t give him her blood! It will kill them both!”
“What are you talking about?!” Peter demanded as he halted the transfusion.
Alice took a deep breath.
“I knew something about the infection looked familiar, but I couldn’t figure it out until Selene said that Myka and Bell are the same, that their blood shares unique markers. The ones that identify them as fae descendants.”
“Wait… what?!” Peter said, shocked by her words.
“I can explain that,” Bell quickly said, looking at Peter, then turned back to Alice, “but first, let Alice finish. Why would giving my blood to Myka kill us both?”
Alice shook her head.
“It’s not giving him the blood that would kill you. The infection would,” she said. “It’s not an infection exactly. It’s like a hunter.”
Peter furrowed his brows and shook his head.
“What does that even mean?” he asked with frustration.
“Remember how we were looking at the slides and found it strange that it wasn’t changing? It was just holding, not attacking or shrinking?”
Peter nodded.
“That’s because it had already found the designated target,” Alice continued. “When Selene mentioned Bell shared similar blood to Myka… I remembered why the slides looked so familiar, not because of the infection itself but because of the pattern it made. The pieces of Myka it was holding to. It was laid out just like the markers in Bell’s blood.”
“So… it was seeking out the fae in him?” Bell said.
Alice nodded.
“I think so.”
“So… if I gave him my blood… we would be feeding it…” she whispered.
“Yes,” Alice nodded, “but that’s not all.”
“What do you mean?” Peter asked.
“I hadn’t considered the fae as a factor when looking through the Spring research for a solution,” Alice began. “But, now, it changes things. Spring had a lot of projects relating to fae genetics. But there was one in particular that Holden tried for years to get going. Fortunately, he never managed to get it working while he was alive.”
“What was it?” Bell asked.
“It was a mutation,” Alice sighed. “The idea was to be able to infuse the patient with fae genetic material and then let loose a mutation in their system. Something that would hunt down the fae in them and make it grow until it changed them.”
Peter’s eyes widened. He remembered the leaf he had pulled from Myka’s hair.
He quickly moved to inspect Myka’s hair. He felt a moment of relief when he did not find another leaf. But it was short-lived as his fingers grazed the skin behind his ear.
It should have been soft. Instead, it was rough and cracked.
Peter took a deep breath and swallowed down his nerves as he leaned close to examine the patch of skin. His heart sank as he saw the brown discoloration.
“Bark…” he whispered with a crack in his voice.
“What?” Bell asked as Alice rushed over to see what Peter had found.
Alice clenched her jaw and took tiny breaths through her nose as she saw it.
“There is bark…. behind his ear,” Peter repeated quietly. “In his hair… there was a leaf… earlier.”
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