Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
she asked. Bix froze in surprise, much like myself, momentarily speechless.
“Why would you think that?”
he asked her.
“Because I look like mommy,”
she blinked up at him through her long lashes.
As she spoke, my gaze shifted immediately to Bix’s frowning face. “Where did you learn such big words? You’re you, and your mommy is your mommy. Kids don’t need to know about adult affairs. Just to be clear, I don’t hate anyone, especially not you,”
he explained to her.
She nodded and suddenly climbed up onto the dining table with her short little legs so that she could stand in front of Bix. “Then why do you always frown and look angry?”
she inquired, bending down slightly to touch the frown lines between his eyebrows with her tiny finger.
Bix was completely taken aback, and I couldn’t help but laugh aloud. Bix glanced back at me, frowned, then stood up from his chair.
“What’s so funny?”
he growled at me lowly as he walked past, though I noticed his reddening ears. “She’s just like Willow,”
he muttered under his breath in annoyance, lighting a cigarette.
I grabbed his arm and turned him to face me. “The child isn’t wrong,”
I said, raising my hand to take the cigarette from his lips. “Try to control your emotions. You’ll look more handsome,”
I added, placing the cigarette in my own mouth before turning and leaving.
Willow
I was momentarily terrified to find myself laid out and completely exposed. “What the ”
Shocked and mortified, I squirmed in an attempt to break free from the restraints around my wrists, but my efforts were in vain.
“You’re awake,”
Reuben’s voice reverberated in the room. I froze on the bed, my heart pounding, only to see him leaning against the wall across from me, casually smoking as he watched my every move.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing, Reuben?!”
I shouted furiously.
“Didn’t I warn you about the consequences of trying to escape from me?”
His voice was deliberate, but I couldn’t discern his expression as he extinguished the cigarette in the nearby ashtray.
The memory of his warning flashed through my mind. If you dare to run away from me, I wouldn’t mind having you tied to my bed, naked and moaning for the rest of your life!
A chill ran down my spine as I recalled his chilling vow, now fulfilled. “Let me go!”
I pleaded, writhing against my restraints and shouting. Only I understood the depths of his madness. He truly was capable of keeping me imprisoned naked on his bed for the rest of my days. I refused to accept such a fate. “LET ME GO, REUBEN!!”
I continued to scream, but he remained unfazed, ignoring my pleas. My throat burned from the exertion, but I refused to give up hope. However, my cries abruptly ceased when he detached himself from the wall and began to approach the bed with a silent determination. I remained silent, my breaths shallow and rapid as I watched him climb onto the bed, causing my heart to race even faster. His eyes were devoid of emotion, cold and impassive.
“You don’t come any closer to me,”
I instinctively recoiled at the sight of his predatory advance, as he began to unbutton his shirt. His cold hand pressed against my inner thigh, he climbed over my body, his arousal evident through the outline of his pants. “Get away! Get away!”
I screamed, sensing his intentions.
“DON’T SHOUT!”
he bellowed, seizing my hair and yanking me closer to his face. I stared into his eyes but remained silent as his arousal pressed dangerously against my core. “AFTER THIS LATEST ESCAPE ATTEMPT, YOU’VE FORFEITED YOUR RIGHT TO YELL OR COMMAND ME!”
he growled, his breath ragged like a bull’s and his dark wolf’s eyes boring into mine. “HOW DARE YOU RUN AWAY WITH MY CHILDREN?! YOU ALREADY STOLE THEM FROM ME ONCE, AND NOW YOU’VE DONE IT AGAIN ”
“That’s not stealing! I took my children with me to save their future and lives. Or do you expect me to leave them in the shadow of your soon-to-be wife and let their future be ruined by a stepmother?!”
I snapped with equal rage.
“Didn’t I tell you that you will only ever be the mother of my children? I’m never marrying Ella or anyone else for that matter, so how the hell will there be a stepmother for our children?”
he questioned, his other hand caressing my cheek. “What you heard about Ella and my being married on the full moon was a lie. I never agreed to that bullshit. I’m not marrying her. There has only ever been you in my life, and there will only ever be you.”
Ceri made a noise in my mind, I was unable to tear my eyes away from him. Once again, I felt as if he was sincere. My heart urged me to believe him, to believe in the love in his eyes and in what he had just said. Yet all the revelations Ella had told me crossed my mind, tearing at my heart. I couldn’t help but let out a low cold laugh, though my heart was bleeding with all the emotional pain I’d been bearing. “Stop lying to me, Reuben. I know everything now. I’m not falling for your lies anymore,”
my voice was low, and my eyes were full of hatred. “You’ve betrayed me again. You’ve played with me, and I believed you even knowing that I was going to end up in this pathetic condition. But enoughs, enough. I would rather die than trust you again. I would rather die than hold your hand again. I would rather die than love you again,”
I vowed. I held back my tears, refusing to let them show in my eyes.
His hand, clenching my hair, shaking violently staring into my emotionless yet hurt and hateful gaze. “You say all of that so easily, as if they hold no value for you anymore, don’t you? Our trust and love. You always leave me without caring about what happens to me when you run away. You don’t care how I survive, how much I suffer, or how I feel without you, do you? It turns out I’m the only one holding onto the thread of our mate bond,”
he murmured, looking up with a blank expression and a sharp aura, as if he had been restraining his baser instinct, the part of him that wanted to take me by force.
The room fell into a deafening silence. I struggled against our mate bond, denying the pain and suffering that he was feeling in his heart. I refused to acknowledge them, fearing that I would break down. I couldn’t afford to break down at this point. If he was under the misconstrued idea that he was the only one holding onto the thread of our relationship, then so be it. It was better if he didn’t know that I was always holding onto it from the shadows too.
Once he looked at me, I averted my gaze as tears threatened to well up in my eyes. He studied my face in silence for a long time, then took a deep breath that sent alarm bells ringing in my mind. “Since I’m the one holding onto it, then what I do with it is all correct and I have the right to do all of this,”
he mumbled.
My eyes snapped back to him in shock.
“What do you mean? Who are you to strip me of my rights?”
I demanded, my voice low but my gaze piercing into his. “Who are you to kidnap me?! Who are you to-“
“I. AM. YOUR. FUCKING. MATE,”
he growled, each word punctuated with force before he pulled me into a kiss.
I struggled attempting to turn my head away, but he was too powerful. His kiss was deep and prolonged, leaving me breathless and gasping for air when he finally released me.
“I am your fucking mate,”
he reiterated, his thumb roughly tracing my lips. “And now, I will show you what I’m capable of beyond kidnapping or stripping you.”
With that, he pushed me back onto the bed and began to untie my hands.
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.