Chapter 24
Chapter 24
Willow
“I will struggle, bleed, and even die to get you back, Willow. But there is no way that I will ever
willingly let you go, mate…”
After being called his mate for the first time six years, Ceri was no longer under my control. All our
past memories crushed the both of us under their wait to the point where I was able to break out of
his possessive hold, give control to Ceir by shifting into my wolf, and run back to the packhouse.The
guests had returned to their homes, but once I entered the packhouse I found E and Oran waiting
there.
E stood up at the sight of Ceri, “Willow…can we talk?” she asked, but the mere glimpse of her
raised pain in my heart as the pack members’ im of her unavoidable marriage to Reuben
burrowed a bleeding hole in my chest. Ignoring her like she was invisible, I passed by her, and
climbed the stairs to my bedroom. Once I entered my room, I shifted back and closed the door
behind before scumbling to tears.
His stubbornness in never letting me go was incinerating my soul, when he was the one that had
not wanted to hold on to me that day six years ago. His obsession with redemption for the crimes
that he hadmitted against me could never be undone. It waspounded by his oath to
reim me when he was already going to be bound to another woman, which made my heart bleed.
His confession of love and him asking me to let him love me, when we are going to reject each
other, tore at my heart.
I closed my eyes andy on the floor for hours until the night fell. My tears had long since dried but
my heart and soul were as cold as the darkness in the sky. I had locked myself in this room not
even wanting to face the memories of the day that I had recognized Reuben as my soulmate, then
afterwards we had made love in that car. Slowly those precious memories mixed with my
nightmares that had reared their ugly heads as my unexpected pregnancy burned my whole world
down to cinders.
When the first rays of morning light filtered through the curtains, I got out of the bed and stood inThis belongs to N?velDrama.Org.
front of the mirror inspecting myself. One thing was for certain I could not trust Reuben. Believing
Reuben was just going to lead me to another heartbreak. I could not give him another chance or I
was going to end up in the same pathetic condition I was in six years ago. I could not let my heart
follow that forbidden path that was bound to end in rejection.
It was eight in the morning when I exited the packhouse with Wyatt and Lori. I had
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dressed for the day and fed them on time so that everyone would be ready to drop them off at the
shifters kindergarten.
“Lori, obey the teachers and remember to finish your food, okay?” I bent down slightly to kiss both
of my precious children that looked absolutely adorable in the morning. “Wyatt, look out for your
sister in the kindergarten and no fighting, okay?” I reminded them again. I had started sending them
to kindergarten today, thankfully there was no problem so far.
“Okay!” Both of them obediently nodded and kissed my checks. I smiled, leading both of them
towards the car.
“Mommy, where is daddy?” Wyatt looked up at me while Lori was searching the yard for Reuben
like always.
I was silent for a couple of seconds. I had not felt him in the next room the whole night so he had
not returned to the packhousest night. I replied in a casual tone, “I don’t know.”
Ceri made a few noises in my mind at the mention of Reuben. I had decided to return to my normal
life and try to forget everything that had happened yesterday.
Just as I pulled out my car keys, a car parked in front of us. As the car window slid down Mia’s face
came to view.
“Good morning,” she smiled at me as she got out of the car.
“Good morning,” I smiled back softly, she was studying my expression.
“Are you okay?” she asked worriedly. “Yesterday, you did not look so good when the Alpha… and
you ran away…” she bit her lip guiltily, “Actually, I wanted toe and visit you after that but I was
hesitant since you could misinterpret my approach.”
“It’s okay, I am fine,” I nodded with an assuring smile. Since I had left my room that morning, I had
noticed that everyone in the pack was slightly hesitant to approach me. It was obvious that no one
wanted any contact with me to be misunderstood that they had a hidden agenda towards the
Alpha’s soulmate. Of course none of them wanted to cross the line with E either, who remained
Reuben’s fiancee. The people close to her obviously would not befortable with me.
“Willow…” she took my hand gently in hers. “I don’t know what is happening between the Alpha and
you but trust me, your status as the Alpha’s soulmate or anything will not impact our friendship. If
you want to talk about anything, I will always be here for you,”
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she hugged me.
Her sincere words moved me, “Thank you,” I returned her hug.
I took a deep breath, feeling good to have a friend like Mia. We pulled away and I asked her, “How
come you are here this early? If I am correct, you have told me that you just got a part-time job?”
“That’s why I am here. To start my part time job,” she remarked.
“Your part time job is here?” I was so confused.
She grinned, “Actually after we talked about kindergarten for our little Alphas, Alpha Reuben offered
me a part time job driving them to kindergarten. So from now on I will be Wyatt and Lori’s personal
driver!” She eximed happily, while I stood there shocked speechless.
I knew Mia’s father and brother worked as drivers for the high ranking wolves in the pack. However,
Mia bing my children’s driver took me by surprise. I was surely going to have to look for a
driver for them since I was going to be busy working on fashion projects. Now that I was going to be
handling my work from America. On top of that, I had to go to Wade Moon soon to drop the papers
off with Alpha Benjamin. All of that made it really difficult for me to drive Wyatt and Lori to
kindergarten everyday.
I just did not understand why Reuben suddenly hired a driver to take Wyatt and Lori to
kindergarten? My brows frowned when the thought of him not wanting me to leave by myself with
Wyatt and Lori from the pack crossed my mind. Did he suspect that I would run away? My frown
deepened with doubt.
Noticing my silence, Mia hesitated, “Umm… I promise to drive them safely. Actually, I have been a
driver for the pack for years but if you are still worried…”
“Oh don’t misunderstand,” I gasped at her discouraged face. “Actually, I am relieved that someone I
know will be driving my children. I know your driving is wonderful. They are in safe hands, that’s all
that matters to me,” I remarked.
“Thank you, then I will take them to school,” she happily opened the door for the children. “Oh… I
completely forgot to tell you,” just as she was about to sit in the driver’s seat, she remembered
something and turned to face me. “Actually, us pack members have decided to throw a wee
home party for you,” she grinned.
“For me?” I blinked.
“Yes, actually it was already decided before the Alpha asked us to join him for breakfast,
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so don’t misinterpret anything that they are doing as something that was done after learning you are
the Alpha’s soulmate,” she winked and sat in the car.
“I really don’t need a wee party, Mia,” I protested.
“Please, don’t break our friend’s hearts, Willow. Well, this wee home party is not only for you
but also for our little Alphas too. I will inform you of the date soon,” she winked at me.
I chuckled and nodded. “Alright, drive safely.”
“Bye mommy,” Wyatt waved at me. I waved back to the two of them but suddenly I noticed E
standing some distance away looking at me. As our eyes met, she tried to walk over to me but Ceri
growled in my mind and I immediately looked away from her, focusing back on my children.
E stopped in her tracks, watching me waving to Wyatt and Lori, “Bye… bye daddy!!” Suddenly
Lori shouted as she waved up at the packhouse. Confused, I tilted my head and nced up at the
packhouse where Reuben was standing in his office’srge window watching me.
It did not look like he was just standing there, he had been watching me from the beginning. When
our eyes locked, the memory ofst night flooded back into my mind all at once. My heartbeat
quickened thinking about it. I tore my eyes away and walked towards the other side of the pack.
Reuben
I watched her leave just as I watched her cry all night through the window of her room. She had
locked herself in her bedroom and I knew there was no way she was going to let me in. So I spent
the entire night crouched in therge tree next to the packhouse where I could watch her.
Dex was a hot mess in my mind from the moment we felt her hatred. I clenched my fists at my
sides, unable to hear what Oran was saying as he read a paper to me from the other side of the
room.
That’s when the sound of door mming broke into the rtive calm of the room followed shortly by
angry steps stomping up the stairs to my office, “Alpha Reuben!!” a man barked.
“Alpha Adam?” Oran frowned bitterly at the familiar face, “What the f uck do you think you are doing
entering in the Alpha’s office like a rogue?!” he demanded.
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“I have to act like a rogue when your Alpha is f ucking announcing some other woman is his
soulmate and openly pursuing her when he is engaged to my niece!” he growled while staring at my
back as I had not even nced over my shoulder at him once.
Alpha Adam was E’s uncle and my father, Alpha Luis’s, best friend. After E’s parents’ untimely
death, he had been managing E’s pack until she was able to take over the pack, which was
meant to be very soon.
“Tell me what the f uck is going on, Alpha Reuben!” When he got no reply, Alpha Adam went wild.
“While I was f cking ovee with the worry about protecting my pack. after the mysterious
ident with the Silver Moon Pack, I suddenly learned that already have two childern and a f
ucking soulmate. Not only that but they have been staying with you in your home where my E is
supposed to live!”
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Listening to him speak ill of Willow made me slowly turn towards him. His face was red and had
turned ugly with his anger, “Don’t forget that the papers you put your thumbprint on five years ago
were not a joke. Your marriage to E is unavoidable in every
way. You can’t act on your own, Alpha Reuben!” he growled as I slowly walked. towards my desk.
“Or?” I inquired as my fingers roamed among files and stationery.
He was taken aback for a second at the calm in my tone. He gritted his teeth knowing he could not
do anything other than threaten me with words. He sucked in an angry breath and said, “Are you
nning to disrespect your father’s decision for some random she-wolf, Alpha Reuben…”
Just as those words slipped from his lips, I grabbed a pen from my desk, mmed his head to my
desk, pinning it there, and aimed the pen right in his eye.
“AHHHH….” Alpha Adam screamed in terror but the pen never punctured his eye. He opened his
fearful eyes to find the pen an inch away from his eye. “Alpha… Reu…. Reuben…” he stammered
in horror as the side of his face that was pinned to the desk bled.
“You shouldn’t make the fatal mistake of thinking that I don’t f ucking know you also hand in that
ident of five years ago, Alpha Adam,” I leaned down closet to his ear.
Adam’s eyes widened in shock as he broke out in a cold sweat. All these years, he had been
mistaken in believing that I did not know his innovation the whole time that I had been locked up
that year.
“I…I did not…do anything…Alpha….it was….your father…” when my father’s name fell on my ears,
my sanity snapped. I clenched his hair harder then stabbed the pen into his
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cheek making him scream in pain.
in
“I recognize your golden rimmed pen that Vin offered me to use to sign, Alpha Adam,” I whispered,
watching his blood pour out of his cheek as he struggled in my grasp pain.
“Remember…” I yanked his head back and growled in his face, “Those f ucking papers can not stop
me from being with my mate. That marriage may be undeniable because of those papers but that
does not mean I will be forced to marry E. I will only allow E to save face in front of the pack
since she is known as my fiance but that’s all. She can not have more than that and if you’re greedy
for more than you can take back your niece back to your pack,” I let him go, pulling the pen out of
his cheek.
Moaning in pain, he moved away from me at lightning speed and looked at me with red teary eyes,
“Oh and one more thing. Don’t worry about being attacked and killed like the Silver Moon Pack. Just
say another bad thing about my mate and see how quickly I wipe out your pack in an even more
mysteriously brutal way, all before the real culprit has a chance.”
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