Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
The woman licked her lips and looked around suspiciously. She leaned closer to Selene and whispered.
“I heard them talking…” she said. “I heard Galen say it.”
“Say what?” Selene asked.
The woman looked around again and then looked up at Selene.
“Alexander is gone,” the woman said in a neutral tone, repeating scattered words she had heard. “We need to move on… Galen, Alpha of Summer…”
Selene’s eyes widened as she felt a cold chill run down her spine.
744 Summer Can’t Wait
Galen looked out the window. It was already past noon, and there was still no word from Selene.
The guard at the gate had reported Landon’s arrival twenty minutes ago, but no one else. Even the scouts didn’t report having seen anyone coming.
He was feeling nervous.
There was no way this conversation would go smoothly, but he hoped they could at least find a way to talk it out and listen to each other. That he could help Selene understand why he had to do this.
On top of his concerns about speaking with Selene, he felt like something else was happening around him. A foreboding feeling. He looked out the window and saw that the streets below were almost empty.
Strange for the middle of the day.
His phone chimed. It was a message from Bell. A picture of a cat on a tree branch with the words ‘hang in there.’ He smiled to himself. She was worried about him. So much so that she had brought her charts to an office down the hall. She intended to use the excuse of catching up on her paperwork to stay near him if he needed her.
Galen was about to reply when his office door suddenly opened and slammed closed.
He set the phone down on his desk as he looked at Selene.
She stood in front of the door. Her hands balled into fists at her sides. Her posture was rigid and imposing. Her jaw was clenched tightly as her eyes stared back at him in a seething rage.
He took a deep breath. This was already starting off worse than he had imagined.
“No one told me you were here yet,” he said. “I would have come to greet—“
“Is it true?” she growled, interrupting him.
Galen furrowed his brows.
“What?” he asked.
Selene growled again.
“You’re a liar,” she stated, “a selfish liar!”
Galen stared back at her in confusion.
“What are you talking about?” he asked.
Selene marched toward him, stopping just a few feet away from him.
“I believed you,” she said. “I believed every one of your disgusting lies!”
Galen clenched his jaw, taking a deep breath through his nose.
“If you’re going to accuse me of something, I should at least know what it is,” he stated, his tone steady but cold.
Selene let out a low growl.
“You pretended that you still cared about Alexander, that you still believed he would come back! But you don’t. You don’t give a damn about Alexander at all!”
Galen growled back at her now, taking a step toward her.
“You have no right!” he shouted. “I love Alexander with all of my heart!”
They stared angrily at each other.
“Liar!” she hissed. “If you really loved him, how could you do this? How could you take his life from him?”
Galen furrowed his brow.
“I know, Galen,” Selene said. Looking at him with disgust. “I know you are trying to become Alpha of Summer.”
Galen stood up straight and took a deep breath. Now he understood.
“Who told you?” he asked with a heavy sigh.
Selene scoffed and took a step back as she shook her head.
“So, it is true,” she said quietly.
Selene turned away from him. Galen watched as she paced back and forth.
He swallowed and took a deep breath.
“Yes,” he replied softly with a nod of his head. “Fiona will nominate me before the pack at the full moon.”
Selene turned back with a confused expression.
“Fiona?” she asked. “Fiona is aware of this… She supports this?”
“Yes,” he said. “She understands that it’s something that needs to happen.”
Selene straightened her back. She looked at him now with renewed anger.
“Something that needs to happen?” she asked.
Selene took a breath and then nodded to herself.
“Right,” she said. “Of course, Fiona supports this. She moved on a long time ago. Because we all ‘needed’ to move forward.”
“Selene…” Galen sighed. “You have no idea what you’re talking about. Fiona has suffered for a long time. More than you could know.”
Selene let out a gentle scoff and looked at Galen as though he were a fool.
“She wants to make him disappear, Galen,” Selene stated. “Remove any trace of him, as if he was never here. First, it was the treehouse, and now she’s making you Alpha… just to make it easier to force everyone else to move forward like she has.”
Galen closed his eyes and shook his head.
“Selene, come on…” he sighed. “You can’t really believe that.”
But when he looked into her eyes, he saw that she meant every word.
“That’s ridiculous,” he stated. “The treehouse? There was nothing she could do about that, and it devastated her to tear it down.”
Selene crossed her arms and looked away.
“As far as making me Alpha,” he sighed. “She didn’t want to do it.”
Selene turned back to him.
Galen nodded.
“I told you,” he said. “This is something that needs to happen. The wolves of Summer are struggling. They need an Alpha.”
Selene furrowed her brows.
“It’s been hard the past couple of years,” he said. “And every day, it’s getting harder and harder to keep the peace. This isn’t about what I want or what Fiona wants. It’s about what Summer needs and what Alexander wanted.”
“What?”
“Alexander chose me as his Beta,” Galen said. “He chose me to lead Summer if he couldn’t. That’s why I am doing this.”
Selene swallowed and looked away.
Galen watched her silently. She was thinking, processing what he was saying.
“Give me a few more months,” she said quietly. “Six months, if I can’t find him in six months, I won’t argue or stand in your way.”
Galen shook his head.
“I can’t do that, Selene.”
“Yes, you can,” she insisted.
“No, I can’t,” he replied. “Summer can’t wait, Selene.”
She scoffed and looked away.
“It can’t be that bad,” she said.
Galen clenched his jaw tightly. He was trying to be patient and understanding. But it was a difficult task.
“No one has ‘moved on,'” he said sadly. “We’re still stuck here, waiting for him to come home. Clinging to that hope that he’ll walk through those gates tomorrow, and we can all start to live again.”
Selene swallowed but didn’t look at him.
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