Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“Are you sure?” he asked, looking into her eyes.
Alice saw the concern and love that looked back at her. She knew that Axel would accept any answer she gave. If she wanted to reveal the truth to her cousin, even though it was dangerous, Axel wouldn’t stop her.
But Alice knew better than any that the danger wasn’t just to the werewolves. She had no right to put that risk on this innocent man and his child.
“I’m sure,” Alice nodded. Looking back once more at her cousin as he continued to play with his son, Alice smiled. “Let’s go.”
After leaving the house, they searched through public records. Alice was shocked to find that she and her mother were reported to have died in a car accident. She had wondered how Holden had ensured that no one was looking for her all these years. Now she understood.
As they approached the grave, Alice stopped. She held a sunflower in her hand, and her heart was racing. Axel took her other hand, squeezing gently.
“Come on,” he whispered with a kind smile. “I want to meet your mom.”
Alice smiled and nodded.
As they approached the grave, Alice closed her eyes and took a shaky breath.
“Is that you?” Axel asked.
Alice opened her eyes and looked down at the headstone. She was surprised to see an oval picture above the epitaph. It was of her mother holding Alice in her arms when she was about five years old. They both smiled as though they were laughing.
“In Loving Memory of Savannah and Alice Monroe,” Axel read. “Devoted Mother, Beloved Daughter.”
Alice let out a sob, and then another, and another. She cried more that day than she had in her entire life.
Together, they faced her worst nightmare. Her origin story, the moment burned into her memory. Bloody sunflowers on the kitchen floor. That day, Alice was finally able to let go of that image. She was finally able to see her mother’s face. To feel the warmth of her smile and to say goodbye.
[PRESENT]
“Alice?” Axel called.
Alice took a breath and looked around as she was pulled back from her memories. He stood before her, holding their daughter in his arms, bounding her lightly with a concerned look.
“Are you all right?” he asked.
Alice smiled and nodded.
“Just got lost in my thoughts for a moment,” she said. “How’s our girl?”
Axel smiled and looked down.
“She was asleep for a moment, but she keeps stirring,” he said quietly.
Alice smiled and stepped closer to them.
“That’s because she knows her mommy is here,” Alice said, reaching out for her.
Axel chuckled as Alice took her from him.
“Oh, baby girl,” Alice cooed. “How’s my sweet Savi?”
Savannah looked up at her mother with sleepy eyes and smiled before nuzzling against her mother’s throat and falling asleep.
“See,” Alice grinned. “She missed me.”
“So did I,” Axel whispered, kissing Alice’s forehead.
Alice chuckled as she headed toward the bedroom.
“Did you check in with Corrine?” she asked.
“I did,” Axel said as he moved ahead of her to open the door. “The boys are fine. They were already up and out the door by the time I called. Apparently, Myka and Stefan are teaching them to fish.”
Alice laughed as she carefully placed Savannah in the crib and pulled the blanket over her.
“Did you find Selene?” Axel asked, leaning against the door frame.
“I did,” Alice replied.
“And how did that go?” he asked.
Alice leaned down and kissed Savannah’s forehead. She then turned toward the door, motioning for Axel to leave the room.
Axel moved back into the living room and turned to face Alice.
“Did you tell her?” Axel asked.
Alice carefully closed the door and turned to face Axel.
“Alice,” Axel said, moving close to her and putting his hands on her shoulders, “I know you had other concerns, but we need to tell her why we came.”
Alice licked her lips.
“There’s no need,” she said.
Axel furrowed his brows.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
Alice took a deep breath and looked up at him.
“There’s no need because Alexander is back,” she said.
723 Myths and Legends
After visiting her mother’s grave, Alice felt calm in her heart. There was a change in her that she had not anticipated. Axel and the twins had already become her entire world. Keeping them safe and happy was all she cared about.
But Alice found herself feeling restless on their return. Her priorities hadn’t changed, her family was still most important, but she felt like something else was missing. Something else that she needed to do.
A few months later, when Selene sent Axel her proposal about Alice’s return to work, she felt irritated by the request. But as Corrine and Axel talked with her about it, when Fiona and Galen also weighed in, Alice began to see the fear each of them held.
As she listened to their troubles, each encouraging the behaviors that most of them had held against her for a long time, she realized there was cause for concern.
Alice thought of her cousin and his son playing in their yard.
Of those children raised and experimented on in the underground lab. They were created from humans kidnapped, tortured, and used as broodmares before they were finally murdered.
And of all the other families that had no idea about the monsters that lived in the shadows of the world around them.
It suddenly became clear to Alice why the Queen that became a Goddess, had been willing to allow the last of her people to die to create the werewolves.
Alice put forth her own proposal. She was willing to help seek out those that sought to create chaos or harm other packs, so long as that was not the primary focus of her job or those she trained.
She found a new purpose in this task and was surprised by how satisfying it was. Helping Axel to stabilize the wolves while also keeping the humans safe. It was the best of both worlds.
There was a third, quiet benefit to her focus on the human world. A secret that she had kept even from Axel when she started.
She gathered old records from the international packs and compared the places where the fae had been spotted in the past and now. Looking for any connection to ancient fae mounds or territories known to have belonged to the fae.
But the fae monsters didn’t seem to follow a pattern. They were merely showing up in the climates that most benefitted them.
Alice almost gave up on her search. She wasn’t sure where else she could look. She had searched through all the historical books and compared the ancient stories, but she was stumped.
Until she heard Axel reading a story to the boys. They laughed and giggled. But then Jonas asked, very seriously, why the big bad wolf would eat little red riding hood and why his Alpha wouldn’t stop him.
“Because,” Axel had chuckled, “this is a human tale about the dangers of the forest and strangers. The Big Bad Wolf is not one of our wolves. The humans don’t know about us.”
Alice laughed from her spot hidden around the corner, but then it dawned on her. Humans had their own lore. Their own myths and legends.
She began her search anew. This time focusing on human stories.
While most of what she found was nothing more than wild imagination and entertainment, some came quite close to the truth.
She even found mention of the ley lines.
Myka was the first she got involved in her side project. She shared with him all the random stories and legends that she thought might have a basis in reality. They spent months translating old maps and reports, finding the places they actually referred to and what they were now called.
He visited many of these places in short trips, searching for any sign of ley line activity or any hint that there had been. Eventually, they figured out that the ley lines connected in temporary places worldwide, but only for a short time.
Of course, having Myka leave the territories and venture into the human world created a lot of questions for Peter and Axel. It was then that Myka and Alice decided they couldn’t keep this search to themselves any longer.
Eventually, Axel brought Galen into the search as well.
But they all agreed that Selene and Fiona should only know if they actually found Alexander. There was no reason to get their hopes up when all they had to go on were old stories.
Throughout the years, there had been moments, trips when they thought there was a real chance they might find him. But none of them had ever panned out.
Axel and Alice had argued more than once about the right time to tell Selene, but every time they came up empty, Axel knew it was the right decision to keep it from her.
That was why, when Myka arrived at their door a few days ago, out of breath and talking fast about something he had found. Axel didn’t bother to bring up telling Selene.
But on the flight, Alice surprised him.
“I think,” she said softly. “We need to tell Selene about our search.”
“What?” Axel asked, turning toward her.
Alice took a deep breath.
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