Chapter 10|Dear SoulMate.

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Alexander returned to the room, stared at the sleeping beauty on his bed and slipped out of his shirt before joining her and pulling her in closer until she was plastered to his body. He pressed a kiss to the top of her head.

At dusk, Isabelle's eyes fluttered open and found herself wrapped in Alexander's embrace with no piece of clothing between them. Her eyes shut close as heat lit from the soles of her feet to the tip of her head. A blush covered all the way from her cheeks to her neck, she attempted slipping out of his arms but was met with strong resistance.

"Where are you going to?" He asked, his voice deep and hoarse from sleep. His eyes were closed.

"No where." She muttered giving up when she felt that he truly wasn't letting her go.

"Let's sleep for one more hour. It's still dark outside." He mumbled, tucking her head into his chest and pressing a kiss to her scarlet red hair.

By morning, Isabelle awoke feeling his absence in the room, she glanced around and found his formidable form staring out the window or more like glaring at something that seemed beyond her sight.

Discreetly, she wrapped the sheets around her body and searched for the dress she wore the previous night, she found it discarded on the floor and began to make her way to it, Alex was faster as he crouched, picked it up and walked towards her. He helped her out of the bed and into the bathroom wordlessly. She shoved him out with a pleading look before washing up and carrying out her necessary morning rituals.

When she got out of the bathroom the fresh aroma of cooked meat filled the air and her nostrils at first inhale, making her way to the kitchen she found him with a tray in hand.

"You're having breakfast in bed this morning. Slept well?" He asked, taking her arm in his and leading her to the room they made love in.

The thought wheedled a blush over her face.

Isabella followed obediently and sat at the edge of the bed, he followed right after her and began feeding her. Once they were done he raised her head to meet his gaze and covered her lips with his. They spent a few minutes battling with their tongues until he calmed himself down as there was so much that needed to be said, this could wait first.

"My true name is Alexander, Alexander De Luca from Manhattan, New York city." He dropped the bomb and watched her closely to gauge her reaction. Her expression was guarded, she blinked rapidly before clearing her throat.

"You remember?" She meekly asked with slightly widened eyes.

He took her hand into his and her face in the other before whispering intimately to her, "What I feel for you is beyond words, it's beyond anything I've ever felt in my life before, it's an obsession, I feel you deep in my soul, you run through my veins like the blood in me does. You're my soulmate Isabelle, my very reason for existence." He exhaled harshly through his nose.

"What I'll say next might shock you, render you speechless but there's nothing I can hide from you again. Last night when we made love I'm sure you felt what I felt. When we joined firstly I know you felt the maddening sensation that pierced through me. I bit you here." He ran his fingers over the bite mark that was evident on her neck and a shiver slid past her lips.

Her lips quivered as she awaited his next words in anticipation.

"Isabelle, I love you. You are my mate, my soulmate. This mark means a lot to me, to you too, I can feel your thoughts, I can feel your feelings just like I feel mine." He exhaled sharply, "I'm not what you expect me to be, I am not a normal human Belle." Her eyes widened at his words but she made no reaction that was akin to fear. "I am half human and half wolf. A werewolf and marking you means we're connected in every way that matters. I can feel it in me that you're not a mere human too but I can't find a wolf in you, I'll break this mystery of yours my Belle. I promise you this, I promise." He pressed a chaste kiss to the back of her hand staring intimately into her eyes.

She stared at him for a few seconds in silence before pulling him into her arms, "I feel your pain, I feel your anxiety, most especially I feel your love thrumming in my heart Alexander. I feel whatever you feel and I love you, human or not. I love you."

He pulled her deeper as though wanting to shield her forever from the tainted world they were in. "I know this forest we're in, it's called the Forest of Eyre. Fate brought us here together and fate will take us out because with you by my side there's nothing beyond my power. The Forest of Eyre is where my kind are taken for exile, in normal happenstance two people cannot meet in the Forest, in any case they do its either they were fated to be the death of each other or to be the reason for each other's next breath. You're mine Isabelle and I'm yours. I've marked you mind, body and soul and there's no going back. In my community or Pack as we refer to it as I am the leader, the Alpha, the King, I do not want to imagine how chaotic the affairs run in my Pack is from my absence so I need to return there as early as possible. Rightaway."

She trembled in his arms before speaking, "You need to do that."

"There's nowhere I'm going without you, nowhere at all." He blurted out pushing her face to stare at her face clearly. He felt her brief anguish at the thought of him leaving her in his soul.

Isabelle nodded once, "I have no idea who I am Alexander, how do you think I'm supposed to meet other people? I don't know how I'm to comport myself or interact with anyone, I only have vague memories, very blurred of an old man on a sickbed telling me things and promising me that I'll be out soon. I have dreams of that very old man assuring me that someone was coming for me, on the night before I found you I had a dream about a man named Alexander, that was why I felt compelled to call you that. I felt that it was the only name that fit you." She explained.

Alexander nodded in understanding before clasping both her hands in his reassuringly. "Together Belle, together we'll be over this phase, together we'll unravel every mystery that's attached to your name and together we'll find out who tortured me and brought me here. I promise you this Belle. Now kiss me properly."

A blush covered the whole of her neck up to her cheeks as she averted her gaze from his and bit on her lower lip.


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Alexander with the help of his wolf navigated through the forest he was viewing with brand new set of eyes, Isabelle confessed to seeing it differently too. Before leaving the secluded forest Isabelle asked Alex a question that had him stopping in his tracks.

"How does your wolf look like?"

He turned to her with a grin and asked if she wanted to see for herself. She agreed with a nod finding it strange that she wasn't afraid one bit. Wordlessly, he took off his shirt, slipped out of his boots and pants before turning around and leaping into the air.

A magnificent animal that was darker than midnight replaced the bronze skinned man as Isabelle watched in awe. Its paws were larger than her whole face and her height stopped at his face, they stood at eye level. Alex moved closer to her with only the sound of paws hitting gravel permeating through the air. It stopped directly before her bowing its head in a show of respect. Isabelle couldn't help herself from feeling the sleek onyx mane that looked soft from the observer's eyes. She ran her fingers through it once and shivered at the feeling it sent from the tip of her fingers to the tip of her toes. Repeating the action once then twice the wolf raised its head and nuzzled her palms before its large tongue swept out and licked the side of her face.

She held the sides of its face and looked deep into his sleek black eyes, the orbs were of the same shade as Alexander's but there was no pupil in the wolf's, only a golden fiery slit that glowed.

A strange feeling overcame her as she saw things in his gaze, filled with a strange need to be closer to it she closed her eyes shut and settled her forehead against it's own. With a slight exhale she ran her fingers into its fur before circling her arms around him and relaxing into the big black wolf that was her soulmate.