Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
Alice kept his gaze, but she couldn’t deny it. She shook her head.
Axel sighed.
“She told me there was a risk,” Alice said sadly.
Axel closed his eyes, feeling the frustration building inside of him. He was angry, and he was terrified.
“You promised me, Alice,” he replied, his voice barely a whisper as he struggled with the emotions that rose in him.
Alice sniffled and then let out another heavy sob.
“I haven’t broken that promise, Axel,” she replied, her voice cracking as fresh tears filled her eyes. “The one thing that Talis did guarantee was my safety. I won’t die from this.”
Axel looked at her in confusion. He sniffled.
“I don’t understand. You said she told you there was a risk.”
Alice nodded. Another sob escaped her lips as fresh tears formed in her eyes.
“If Peter and Bell aren’t able to find a cure soon, the mutation will overpower my wolf inside of Myka, and we will be back where we started,” she said. Then lifted her eyes with a pained expression. “And while I will never suffer the effects of mutation, I will still carry it in my body.”
“Inside…” Axel whispered, processing the words she was saying.
“If they can cure him before the mutation spreads to my wolf, we can transfer our energies back without consequence,” she said. “But, if they don’t… It will always lie dormant inside of me, and you and I… Will never be able to have a family.”
***
On the other side of the hospital, Peter and Bell continued to study the creature. Peter was the only one allowed to touch the beast for safety. At the same time, Bell ran tests and analyzed the results.
An autopsy and several tests proved that it was initially an Autumn wolf. However, further testing led to an ever more surprising and concerning revelation.
The DNA of the creature was linked to someone in Winter.
Alpha Axel.
Axel sat quietly in the chair as Bell drew his blood. They had spoken very little since she came to find him after discovering his DNA in the creature.
Bell watched him carefully. He had barely reacted to the news, only letting out a tired sigh and then agreeing to have a battery of tests run on him.
“I’m sorry,” Bell whispered as she pulled the needle from his arm and placed a small bandage.
“Barely felt it,” Axel replied quietly as he rubbed his arm.
Bell smiled.
“I didn’t mean the needle,” she said.
Axel looked up at her, and she gave him a sad smile.
“Seems pretty obvious that the blood stolen from you during the convoy was used to make that thing.”
“Seems likely,” Axel nodded. “But why would you apologize for that?”
Bell sighed.
“Roman,” she said. “I’m sure he was leading the attack on that convoy.”
Axel chuckled.
“You know, Bell, you don’t have exclusive rights to being his target,” he said. “Not to mention, that attack had a pretty clear objective.”
Axel touched his chest.
“I’d be honored that he put in so much effort if not for the current results.”
Axel was making light, and Bell knew it was primarily to make her feel better. But she could tell that something was bothering him.
“Are you alright?” she asked.
Axel turned and looked at her. He seemed to be considering her carefully.
“How’s Myka?” he asked.
Bell was surprised. She hadn’t expected that.
“He’s getting better. His bloodwork looks great, and some of his physical symptoms are clearing up. So we are hopeful he might wake up today or tomorrow.”
“But he’s not cured?” Axel asked.
“No,” Bell confirmed. “Peter and I are working on it, but there is still a lot to go over, and we are practically guessing where to start.”
“And you’re sure he won’t just… heal on his own?”
Bell sighed and shook her head.
“Whatever Alice did, it definitely helped. He is healing, but every test I run still shows the infection in his system. It’s being pushed back, and to some extent, it’s staying back… but the infection will eventually spread and grow unless we find a cure before then.”
Axel clenched his jaw and lowered his head with a nod.
Bell furrowed her brows and observed him. It was a horrible situation, and she desperately hoped that Myka would pull through, but why was Axel so affected? He had only met Myka a few times; from what she heard, they mostly butted heads.
“Axel,” she said softly, touching his shoulder. “What’s going on? This… isn’t about Myka, is it?”
Axel shook his head.
“No, not exactly,” he sighed.
“What is it?” she asked.
Axel took a deep breath.
“So many people assume the worst of her,” Axel sighed. “I hear the whispers, the doubts, the suspicions.”
He looked to the floor, bringing his hand up to his eyes and rubbing his brows.
“You mean Alice?” Bell asked.
Axel nodded, still keeping his head down.
“All these people that don’t know her don’t understand her. They all just see the doll. The spy from Spring,” Axel spat bitterly. “They call her a traitor, a liar. They presume that she has bewitched me somehow, and they question whether the Goddess really paired us or if she tricked me into our relationship.”
Axel chuckled.
“She hears it all too, and she doesn’t care.”
A gentle smile formed on Bell’s lips. But, of course, Alice wouldn’t care. She had heard far worse in her life. Her skin was thicker than any wolf Bell had ever met.
“For all that talk, all those accusations of her greed and treachery… Alice has always given me her endless love. She has put my interests above hers, and she has only ever asked one thing of me,” Axel said with a sniffle and soft sob.
Bell put her hand on his back, rubbing gently.
“All she wanted…” he whispered. He sucked in a sharp breath as the emotions began to overwhelm him. “Her one… ‘selfish’ request… she wanted us to have a family.”
Bell wasn’t sure why, perhaps just how he spoke, but she felt worried.
“The only thing she wanted for herself… was to be a mother. To have a child made from our love. One that she could love without restraint or expectation, without conditions.”
Axel’s voice cracked, and the sobs poured out of him. His tears flowed, and his pain gripped his heart.
Bell curled her lips together and closed her eyes, trying to suppress the awful feeling in her stomach. She didn’t understand why he was so upset, but her gut told her something terrible was happening.
“Axel…” she whispered. “Did something… happen?”
He didn’t respond. He was still weeping, letting out the pain he held tightly inside him. He had kept his calm with Alice. Told her that everything would be all right, that Myka would be cured, and they would have their family one day.
He was disappointed. He wanted a little girl with Alice’s short curls or a boy with her chocolate eyes. But the truth was, at the end of the day, having children or not didn’t matter to Axel. What mattered was that Alice might lose the chance for the only thing she ever wanted for herself.
And that broke his heart.
“Do you know how she helped him?” He asked.
“You mean, how Alice helped Myka? No… she didn’t give us any details, only said it would work. So we left them alone for about an hour. When we came back, he was already healing.”
Axel nodded.
“She gave him her wolf.”
“What?” Bell asked with surprise and confusion. “What does that even mean? You can’t just give away your wolf….”
“You can, apparently, when one of the original Lunas helps you.”
Bell’s eyes widened. The original Lunas, the fae women that had been turned into the first wolves.
She still had a hard time accepting that she was part fae or that these women were still alive. But one had come to Alice and helped to save Myka?
It seemed there was always a surprise waiting around the corner. Bell sat beside him, trying to think through what he was saying.
“Even if it were possible… how? And why? What does that even mean?” Bell asked in disbelief.
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