Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
She shook her head in response while Wyatt’s voice came from behind us, “Mommy said today was our welcome party, so we got to skip kindergarten today.”
I nodded, glancing up at the window to Willow’s room. The lights were off and I couldn’t catch a hint of her scent. “Where is mommy?”
I asked.
“Mommy went to work with Uncle Walter,”
Lori replied in a childish voice.
Had she gone with the hunter? I looked for her car but it was absent from the parking lot.
Without her, my heart felt empty.
*Welcome party*
As the evening unfolded, the clearing radiated a newfound splendor, bedecked like an exceptionally beautiful bride. Excitement, merriment, and the rhythm of music enveloped the pack, drawing in its well-dressed members who had gathered to revel in the party.
Seated at the bar in elegant black attire, I ran my finger over the small, round, white object before me then slid it toward Oran’s wine glass. He silently picked it up then closely examined it as he inquired, “So, this is the pill Willow had. You want to know exactly what its purpose is?”
I nodded in response, raising a wine glass to my lips while keeping a watchful eye on the pill. If my little mate believed that she had deftly swiped the pill box from my pocket unnoticed, she was unbelievably naive. Anticipating her move, I had already secured a pill from that pill box. What intrigued me was the necessity for her to travel to a neighboring city to obtain this specific medication. She seemed perfectly healthy in my eyes, prompting questions about the purpose behind her taking these pills. Moreover, her peculiar reaction upon my discovery of these pills added another layer to the mystery.
I couldn’t ignore the unusual flush in Willow’s cheeks most of the time. Was she unwell? The mere notion of Willow being sick tightened my muscles. Werewolves weren’t prone to easily falling ill. If they did it often signaled a serious ailment. Dex grew alert in my head and I could not stay calm. Tilting my head, I said to Oran, “Find out what this pill is as soon as possible.”
“You got it,”
he affirmed, securely stowing the pill away in his pocket.
“Why are you two sitting here?”
Bix finally made an appearance at the party, sporting a bad-boy look that seemed to have taken more time than any woman’s attire. “Not diving into the fun with the rest? You’re already acting like old men,”
he teased, slinging an arm around Oran’s shoulders.
Unfazed, Oran paid little attention to Bix, while I managed a light smile, albeit not a genuine one. “How about you join the fun, young man?”
I gestured towards the side where she-wolves, who were the actual organizer of this welcome party, forced the men to dance together to romantic songs as a punishment for losing the games they had been playing. Laughter echoed through the party as the men engaged in a comically awkward zombie-like dance yet a bitter frown settled on Bix’s face.
“Women are truly peculiar creatures. They derive pleasure from the oddest things,”
Bix remarked.
I shook my head with a chuckle while keeping an eye on Wyatt and Lori in the buffet area of the party eating cupcakes with other children. They were sure enjoying themselves.
Oran and Bix followed my line of sight as Oran questioned, “I have not seen Willow since this morning.”
My expressions changed right away which he failed to notice, “This welcome party is for her. Where is she?”
he asked, taking a sip of his wine.
“Why not ask me?”
Bix stated, snatching the wine from Oran. “I saw her leaving the pack this morning with the hunter. It seems she forgot about her own party or maybe the hunter is more fun for her,”
Bix remarked.
The last sentence made me frown. Bix shrugged his shoulders innocently in response, walking away.
“That’s mine,”
Oran growled at Bix for stealing his wine and followed him away.
I sat there listening to Dex’s growling in my mind. He could not bear that our mate had been away from us for so long.
Especially when she had left with that hunter. I could smell that his intentions towards Willow were not pure. His eyes when they fix on Willow were not as a friend. His words did not match his expressions. And his smile it had countless hidden intentions, one of them was probably directed to Willow. I could feel it! I could not bear him around Willow for even a second let alone letting him stay in my pack. He should have been dead the second that he stepped foot onto my land yet my hands were tied due to the promise I made to Willow. If I broke it then she was going to hate me.
I guzzled down the wine in one go out of the frustration that was growing with every passing second due to Willow’s absence until my nose picked up her scent.
People’s chattering died down and everyone started calling her name, “It’s Willow!”
“Willow is here!”
Still holding my wine glass, I glanced to the side to find Willow entering the party. My hand holding the glass paused abruptly at the sight of her dressed in a sexy sleeveless dark blue gown. Her sleeveless dress revealed her smooth skin yet it was the deep neckline and her curves that held my undivided attention.
The women surrounded her like ants swarming a cupcake, congratulating and complimenting her. As she turned around and bent down slightly to hug Mia’s 5′ frame, my eyes slid down to her long flowing hair that brushed her hips, causing my body to react with her unintentionally seduction. It felt intense as I saw her smiling and giggling with her group of friends until her eyes met mine.
The smile on her face slowly melted away as we stared into each other’s eyes in silence while she also eyed me up and down just like I had done to her.
Just as I decided to get up and walk over to Willow, Walter appeared at her side. I froze in my seat. His presence immediately distracted her attention from me.
“They seem to have come together,”
Ella commented, pouring herself a glass of wine.
I did not bother to spare her a glance as I kept staring at Willow whose eyes kept moving back to me when she accepted a congratulatory wine from Walter.
“Mommy, you are back,”
Wyatt and Lori chirped.
“Yes,”
she smiled and kissed both of their cheeks.
“You two are looking so cute,”
Walter bent down to rub both of their heads, “Who dressed you two up?”
“Daddy took us shopping this afternoon. He dressed us up,”
Lori revealed excitedly.
Willow immediately raised her eyes to look at me in surprise. Following her line of sight Walter also noticed me at the bar counter, a sudden smile appearing on his lips. “Mommy and I have bought you two a lot of surprises. I will show you if you two give me kisses,”
he pulled both of them up into his arms.
Wyatt and Lori immediately covered Walter with kisses. The sight of that playing out right in front of me caused a tornado of emotion in my brain. The feeling of something being stolen from me stabbed my mind as everyone surrounded them.
“They look like a family,”
Ella commented, this time I could not ignore her.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.