Goddess’s Design His Fated Mate by Pooja

when I stirred in my sleep, I found myself back in his warm embrace once again.

The next morning, I woke up to find myself in a car that he was driving, heading

back to Emerald Bright Pack. The drive was so quiet that my presence in the car

felt like a looming question when I was doing everything to ignore him.

Memories of our steamy night had throwninto a pit of shame, while his

continuous smiling glances only continued to add layers to that shame. How

could I be the one feeling this way when he seemed to be enjoying it? It was like

the exact feeling you get when you h ook up with your ex only to end up

messing things up yourself. But in my case, I had h ooked up with my ex fully

aware of the situation and had even enjoyed it more than he had. I still

remembered my moans and demands for more. The greedy and impatient side

ofthat had been hidden for six years was revealed to Reuben that steamy

night. He was undoubtedly happy, but I was nothing but ashamed!

I

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Ignoring him in the car was a battle in it of itself. I answered him with a nod or a

shake of my head when he asked for water and food that he had bought in

advance, I wasn’t sure when. I ate in silence, keeping my eyes fixed outside the

window the entire tbut that didn’t mean I failed to notice something black

in Reuben’s hand.

Staring at the blackness in his and with mixed feelings for a couple of seconds, I

shifted my gaze to his face, only to realize what it exactly was. By midnight,

Reuben hadn’t disappeared. Instead, he had gone back to the burnt house.

There, he closely investigated the surroundings and ashes, only to discover that

the fire did not have natural causes; it had been ignited by petrol. That meant it

was a conspiracy that someone else had hatched.

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A schthat took place without the knowledge that I was not alone in that

house, Reuben was there with me. It was clear that whoever it was intended to

killas the tire tracks of their cars had followed mine. After listening to Ella’s

panic and her failure to deny the incident when Walter had made the

connection between the house fire and her uncle, it beccrystal clear that

the person that wanted to killwas none other than Alpha Adam.

Ella’s face turned pale at the sight ofand Reuben. I wanted to blthe

mate mark on my n*ck for her face turning white, however, the fear in her eyes

was not due to anything other than Reuben.

nything other than

It was not only her, my heart shook violently in my ch*st when Reuben passed

byand advanced toward Ella. If there was one thing more dangerous about

Reuben than the rest, it was being able to anticipate his next move. He was so

unpredictable and violent that sometimes it even scared me. Now that he had

learned that it had been Alpha Adam behind the attempt to killin that fire,

he was in his most dangerous state.

“Reu… Reuben…” Ella stammered in alarm as Reuben stood face to face with her

remaining silent. She stepped back until her back hit Walter’s chest. Frozen, she

looked up at him only to realize he had never moved away from her. Why was he

still there? Turning back to Reuben, she found him staring into her eyes with his

wolf’s, his gaze bloodthirsty.

Meanwhile, Bix looked most alarmed by Reuben’s anger, and Oran appeared

disturbed by it too. Both of their eyes darted between Ella and Reuben while

everyone’s heartbeats pounded loudly, even Walter’s, surprising me.

Sensing a potentially bad ending to this confrontation, I took a few steps

forward and gently grabbed Reuben’s hand. “Reuben…” I couldn’t let him raise a

hand against a woman, no matter how angry he was. While he had never raised

a hand against a female before, his anger could be riled too quickly forto

remain. calm.

Reuben did not pull his hand away, but he didn’t look ateither, indicating

that his thoughts were unchangeable or possibly worse. Suddenly, I noticed

pack members in their wolf forms appearing in the clearing.

“Drag Alpha Adam back here front ofin nothing but his skin,” Reuben

ordered his wolves in a low voice, causing not only Ella butto fiinch as well.

“Reu…” Ella’s eyes widened upon hearing Reuben’s command, she obviously

wanted to say something but not a single word cout of her mouth. If only

she knew that it had only just been the beginning.

“And make sure to burn the entirety of the Opal Moon Pack to the ground. Burn

everything, living and nonliving alike,” Reuben added, staring deep into her eyes

before turning on his heels to leave, his sharp aura compelling the wolves to

follow his orders.

“No…” Ella shook her head as she watched the wolves leave the pack following

Reuben’s orders. Despite her pack’s power and favor with the royal family, Ella

was aware that even the royal family couldn’t stop Reuben from taking Alpha

Adam’s life in his hands at this point. He was a living monster with no emotional

attachment to others when it cto someone that had hurt me. “NO. NO.

NOOOO!!!” Ella screamed, clearly envisioning the demise of her uncle and pack.

The pack was her home, her life, and her future. “Please listen to me., Reuben!!”

she yelled, trying to run after him only to be grabbed by Bix in time.

“Don’t go after him!” he tightly grabbed her arm and made her face him. “It’s no

use, Ella.”

“What the hell are you saying?!” she shrieked, her eyes red with panicked fury.

“Did you not hear the order he just gave? If I don’t stop him, he will kill my…

Uncle and pack…” She struggled violently in his hold. “Letgo! I need to talk

to Reuben. I will…”

“You can’t stop him!” Bix yelled, gripping her arms tightly to knock ssense

into her. “Reuben will kill you, Ella. He will kill you too. So don’t do it,” he added

in a low tone that Ella was all too aware of. There was no such thing as

forgiveness in Reuben’s world.

She miserably broke down into tears. “Why…” she buried her face in his chest,

sobbing loudly.

For sreason, my heart grew heavier at seeing her in such a poor and broken

condition. She knew that her family and pack were going to die but she could

not do a thing to save them. She had to just wait and watch them dying. If I was

in her

place and it was my family that was going to die then I would have lost my grip

on reality.

“I can’t lose my uncle. I can’t lose my people and pack,” Ella cried, clenching at

Bix’s chest. “Please someone stop him. Please someone…”

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“Calm down,” Bix put his hand on her back and took a deep breath, “I will talk to

Reuben,” he said, surprising everyone in the clearing.

Ella lifted her head to look up at him with wide eyes, “You… you will go…”

go and

Bix nodded, “Reuben is furious but I believe that he will hearout. Someone

should be able to manage asking him not to kill Alpha Adam and your pack,”

with that he pulled away from her ready to enter the packhouse to meet with

Reuben.

“Have you lost your f ucking mind?!” Oran barked, grabbing Bix’s arm at

lightning speed.

“No, I have my full wits about me,” Bix replied dryly, his expression emotionless.

“No, you do not f ucking have your wits about you! You must be on f ucking

drugs, that’s the only reason I can think of for why you are going to Reuben to

ask for forgiveness on behalf of Alpha Adam after what he f ucking did! Reuben

will f ucking kill you,” Oran growled. Even though I had been standing there

silently, I had to agree with him. At this point Reuben was not even going to

listen to me.

“I will still go,” Bix remarked, causing Oran’s eyes to turn red.

“Over my dead b*dy!” he growled, getting dangerously close to Bix’s face.

Bix stared at him for a couple of seconds and said, “Then you can stopover

my dead b*dy,” his eyes were clear and confident which irritated Oran to no end.

Knowing Oran would not raise his hand to him, Bix passed by him only to be

pulled back by Oran again.

“What the…” Bix grew angry but his head was quickly grabbed by Oran who

pulled him closer to his face, squeezing his head in his hand.

“This is the last f ucking tI am going to tolerate your stubborness, Bix,” Oran

growled dangerously close to his face. “I swear it is the last time…” he added

and let go of his head with a growl and snapped, “I will f*cking go to talk to

Reuben,” with that he turned to leave.

“What?!” Bix panicked and held his arm, “Why the f*ck are you willing to go?”

I clenched my fist at my side, having had enough of this craziness. If any of them

went to talk to Reuben at this moment the consequences would grow further

out of proportion. So I decided I should be the one to go talk to Reuben by

myself. “Guys, stop it…”

But before I could say another word, Ella passed byheading towards the

packhouse on her own, her intention clear. Before she could take more than

three steps, she halted at the sight of Alpha Adam’s bl oody b*dy being dragged

by wolves.

“Uncle!” she screamed dashing over to Alpha Adam’s unconscious b*dy that

looked more like a half dead carcas s than a human. Following Reuben’s orders,

he really had been dragged to the pack n*ked. Ella shoved the wolves’ snouts

away from Alpha Adam and started checking his wounds in a panic. “Uncle, what

happened to you? Uncle…” she cried non stop until Reuben’s footsteps echoed

in the surroundings.

Seeing Reuben approach, Ella knew that he had every intention of killing Alpha

Adam and intercepted Reuben before he could get closer to her uncle. “Reuben,

please stop. I beg you, don’t kill my uncle or destroy my pack!” She held her

hands up to stop him but he continued staking towards Alpha Alpha, his

expression blank but his eyes were blood thirsty. “Reuben please!!” she cried

one the last time, tightly grabbing his arm.

“I had marked your last stunt down as your first and last mistake Ella. It would

appear as if you did not take my warning seriously. The wolf that spread false

news about our impending marriage date was a member of your pack that tried

to separate Willow and I. Not only that, you were the one who spread the news

that I had a fiance in the first place all those years ago,” Reuben remarked.

Ella had done that? My eyes immediately went to Ella whose face had blanched

further than before now that she had been exposed in front of the other pack

members who had long gathered in the clearing. “As to your f ucking uncle, he

tried to kill my soulmate,” Reuben shoved her out of his way. Ella stumbled and

was barely able to stop herself from falling, she immediately upon righting

herself she found Reuben stopping a hand away from Alpha Adam’s fainted b

loody figure.

Ella raced over to stand between her uncle and Reuben, “Reuben, killbut

please forgive my uncle and don’t destroy my pack!” she screamed, crying her

eyes out before Reuben could reach Alpha Adam.

I knew her love for her uncle and the pack knew no bounds. Alpha Adam was

like a father to her and Opal Moon Pack was the culmination of her dead

parents’ hard work that she refused to let go under any condition. To save those

two things she was even willing to die.

“Your life is of no use to me,” Reuben took a step closer to her tucking a paper

in her hand.

I co cked my brows confused as to what those papers were but when Ella saw

them it was as if she had seen a gho. “Our marriage contract?” she murmured

under her breath lifting teary red eyes up to Reuben in disbelief.

Marriage contract? My ears perked up and my heart grew uneasy at the mention

of it..

“You know what you have to do right?” Reuben coldly stared at Ella.

Ella bit her l*p, tears fiowing down to her cheeks non stop. She looked at her

bleeding uncle on the ground then back at her marriage contract. She had to

make a choice. After a couple of silent tears, she senta hate filled glare then

turned back to Reuben before she raised her hand and tore the marriage

contract into pieces.

“I, Ella Martin the Alpha’s daughter of the Opal Moon Pack, break my

engagement with Alpha Reuben Emerald freeing you from our marriage

contract,” she declared, dropping the torn pages on the ground.

I froze in place as I listened to Ella. It turned out that only Ella could break the

marriage contract with Reuben, not Reuben. I could not help but turn my

attention to Reuben who stood in front ofholding my hand.

“Let’s go home, Willow,” he began leadingtowards the packhouse.

Blinking, I looked down at his hand in mine then up at his face. My heart sk

pped a beat when I realized Reuben had done all of this for me. He had ended

the marriage contract with Ella in front of the pack and was officially bringing