Forbidden Fruit

Chapter 13: Wolves & Wonder

Alex's Mom

Chloe's POV

I want to smack myself for letting my mouth get ahead of me, the question meant to be inward, debating whether or not I was even ready to bring the subject up, much less be so up front about it.

A fierce blush makes it way up my neck and to my cheeks, but I don't falter even as Beta Alex turns to me in shock, though the relief of hard to miss as well. I could imagine it must be hard to have a Nightly as a soulmate. You grow up being fed these fairytales about a happily ever after and finding the one only to meet one of the few that have woken up and realized what a sham it all is.

A part of me feels bad for Alex, and honestly it's that part of me that's keeping me here in this unfamiliar house that seems to spark something within me.

I know what it's like to have your dreams crushed and everything taken from you in one fell swoop. And from what I've heard, Alex has gone through his fair share of that. If there's a way that I can help ease the pain and both of us come out of this happy, then that's all I can ask for.

I almost want to snort to myself.

Thomas and Chan will be proud.

Only if I don't mention the other part of me that wants to book the first boat to the Alarian Archipelago. The larger islands, including the capital, Alaria are pretty busy and packed, but the smaller more remote islands would be perfect for someone like me to disappear to for the next hundred years or so, until my problems have moved one.

Maybe Thomas will have found his own anchor by then.

But the thought, while alluring, is only a joke, a pipe dream at most. I owe Chandler too much to just turn my back on him, and I believe in our cause too much to just turn my back and walk away.

Since I can't run away, I have no choice but to accept the cards I was given and to try not to hurt anyone or go insane in the process.

Sounds simple enough.

Ha. If only.

I find myself unable to stop scanning the pictures around the room as Alex goes to answer me, both of us just a little on edge, every part of me on high alert.

Though I can't tell if that's because of the intensity of the situation of the sexual tension that's been rising in the air since I got here. I try to ignore it, but I can't help the heat that crawls up the inside of my leg and pools in my stomach as he looks at me with those sensual brown eyes.

"I do have a wolf. I'm surprised you asked, though you seeened more surprised than me.@ He says with a chuckle, making my cheeks heat again, realizing I wasn't as discreet as I would like to think.

"What's his name? Or is it a she? I have no idea how that works." I realize outloud, frowning as I consider the possibility of having an opposite sex wolf inside of you at all time. Must be trippy. Alex's laugh cuts through my thoughts, the sound of it deep and healing, enrapturing me with the sound.

What the hell is happening to me?

Did someone cast a spell on me without me realizing?

Because no fucking way there's ever been any credit to those bulls hit stories about not having a choice. No way in hell my soul fell in love with some ass I don't even know.

A sweet, sexy ass, but an ass nonetheless. A stranger at that.

Though that's becoming less and less the case the more we talk, but I find myself unable to stop or run away, finding myself more at peace than I have in a while. Deep down a part of me is screaming that this is weird and wrong and all just some bulls hit Divine Children spit out to make them send feel more special over the fact that someone tried to pair us up like match maker dolls instead of literal people with love and intentions and lives.