Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
“You ”
Letting go of the steering wheel Mia crossed her arms over her chest as she narrowed her eyes dangerously at me not bothering to hide her suspicion, “You are hiding from the Alpha, aren’t you?”
The cappuccino I had just taken a sip of nearly got stuck in my throat then I nearly spewed it all over the car in surprise. Coughing hard, I grabbed a tissue to whip my lips and looked at still suspicious Mia. “Why do you think that?”
“Shit! That means I am correct!”
She exclaimed.
In the Emerald Bright Pack, one could avoid a monsoon but not Reuben. That was exactly what I had been doing. “How the hell did I not notice that this was what you had been doing for the last four days?! You are hiding from the Alpha, somehow I have become the thief that has stolen Alpha’s mate! Won’t I be killed?”
For the past four days, I had been tagging along with Mia almost everywhere. We went shopping for my welcome party, chatted a lot about when we were in school. She had been asking me countless questions about my fashion designing career and how I had been doing over the last six years. Today I knew that Reuben was supposed to be in the packhouse all day, so there was no way I could stay in the packhouse around his aura.
So in the late morning, I dragged Mia to the nearby city to buy something and only returned six hours later. However, even though my car was parked in the parking lot at this moment, I had been working on my designs on my laptop with no intention of getting out anytime soon. Mia had nothing to do, so she sat with me as we chatted about random things when I got an email from Lola saying I should expect the model’s arrival today.
However, observing my reluctance over getting out of the car and going to the packhouse before dinner, Mia finally sensed my unusual behavior over the past four days and finally linked it with Reuben.
“Shit! I really am dead meat now!!”
She started panicking.
I rolled my eyes at her wild imagination, “I am not hiding. You could say that umm I am avoiding him,”
I stated as I put my laptop back in my laptop bag then added, “and don’t worry you will not be killed. If he intended to kill you then would not have survived until now,”
I chuckled.
Mia let out a relieved breath, “thank Goddess but why the hell are you avoiding the Alpha? No wait, the other day I saw him looking in your direction. Now I realize you were intentionally ignoring him! I swear the look in his eyes would give anyone nightmares. I advise whatever your reason is for avoiding him, don’t test his patience, Willow,”
she advised in all seriousness and for some reason I noticed that there was a different level of fear in Mia’s eyes when it came to Reuben.
Mia had not been my best friend in school like Ella. She had just been my classmate and neighbor that I talked to when we crossed paths, yet back then she had not been this scared of Reuben. The look in her eyes was enough to tell me that she had been triggered by some memories that caused her to speak so seriously.
Honestly, I had no idea how Reuben had been doing over the past six years and prior to this I had intentionally avoided conversations about it. When I discovered Ella’s uncle’s involvement in the marriage contract and everything else that Oran wanted to discuss before Bix stopped him had piqued my curiosity about the past six years of Reuben’s life.
“Umm Ella during the last six years ”
just as I opened my mouth to ask her about it the whispers of some young women interrupted the two of us.
We both look straight ahead to find some unmated she-wolf drooling and eyeing a passing by Oran.
“I wish that on my next birthday that the Moon Goddess will choose him as my soulmate!”
“You are already twenty!”
her friend snapped at her fantasy.
“So what? Maybe he will take me as his chosen mate! When no one else had lost their hope then why should I?”
The group continued arguing when I heard Mia’s long sigh. “Unfortunately, their dream will never come true,”
she unlocked the car.
“Why do you say that?”
I asked curiously.
“He already has a soulmate,”
she let out another deep sigh and got out.
Surprised by the news I followed her out with my laptop bag in my hand, “Oran has a soulmate? Who is she? Why is he unmarked?”
“Actually, I don’t know about any of that but years ago a rumor spread around the pack about him finding his soulmate. However, no one knows who the woman was,”
she revealed as we walked across the parking lot side by side.
I blinked at the news and started thinking about Oran’s mate as Mia said goodbye and started making her way towards her house only to stop.
“Hey, I still have your meds,”
Mia stated as she tossed a small box at my side.
“Thanks,”
I raised my hand to catch that box only to see a large hand grab it in the mid air before I could. It was Reuben.
“What kind of meds are these?”
Both of our faces turned pale at the sight of Reuben holding the med box. They were my heat preventing medication that I had run out of, which had been the reason we had gone to the city nearby. Mia immediately ran away in fear while I stood in horror realizing the truly fucked up situation I had gotten myself into. If Reuben had even the slightest suspicion about those pills then
“Give that to me,”
I dashed over to him and tried to snatch the container from his hand.
“Ohh ”
he immediately raised his hand up over his head, “What is the rush?”
he smirked, wrapping his arm around my waist. As our eyes met for the first time in four days, my heart skipped a bit. My wolf that had been silent in my head moaned when my nipples brushed and hardened against Reuben’s hard chest. It was a clear sign to me that I was going into my heat. But I had rarely gone into the heat in the last six years so why was I going into the heat because of Reuben? The heat was supposed to rise between a couple due to love. So how come?
Scared by my own thoughts, I stared at Reuben with wide eyes. It could not be happening. What the hell was I thinking just now?!
“Now you are finally looking at me,”
he whispered, a handsome smile playing on his lips. He rubbed his thumb over my lower lips, greedily eyeing them like he wanted to chew them and suck my blood until I moan mess in his arms helplessly,
A sudden rush of heat overwhelmed my blood like last time, alarming me, “You give that back to me! Give that back, Reuben!!”
I demanded, stretching my arm up to grab it. He kept smiling at me, keeping his hand up, and the meds out of my reach until a familiar voice entered my ears.
“Willow”
I paused and glanced to the side to find a familiar face standing in front of me. “Walter? What are you doing here?”
I gasped, pulling slightly away from Reuben. Reuben looked at Walter’s wide smile then back to my wide eyes as I recalled Lola’s email from earlier.
Wait! There was no way!!!
“Walter, don’t tell me you are the model ”
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