Fated to My Forbidden Alpha – Chapter 22
Darkness swallowed Selene.
Not the darkness of sleep—
But something deeper.
Older.
Like falling into a memory that had been locked away for fifteen years.
When Selene opened her eyes again, she was no longer in Blood Moon Manor.
She stood in a burning forest.
The sky was red.
The air smelled of ash and blood.
Wolves screamed in the distance.
“Selene!”
A woman’s voice.
Familiar.
Desperate.
Selene turned—
And saw herself.
Not as she was now.
But as a child.
Three years old.
Running through the forest.
Barefoot.
Scared.
“Run!” the voice shouted.
A man grabbed her from behind.
“No—don’t take her!”
A blade flashed.
Screams erupted.
Selene stumbled back.
“This… this is not real…”
But it was.
Every detail was real.
Every emotion was real.
And then—
She saw it.
A silver crest.
Bloodwind.
Selene gasped violently.
Her body jerked as she returned to reality.
She was back in the infirmary.
But she wasn’t alone.
Three Alphas stood around her.
Jackson.
Alexander.
Ethel.
And all of them were watching her differently now.
Because something inside her had changed.
Completely.
Ethel stepped forward first.
His voice broke.
“You saw it… didn’t you?”
Selene didn’t answer immediately.
Her hands were shaking.
“I was… taken.”
Silence.
The confirmation hit like a thunderclap.
Jackson’s expression tightened.
“Taken from where?”
Selene looked at him.
For the first time—
Without fear.
“I don’t know.”
Then her eyes shifted.
“To Bloodwind.”
The name alone changed the air.
Alexander’s wolf reacted instantly.
Ethel closed his eyes.
Relief.
Pain.
Truth.
All at once.
Lyla spoke softly inside Selene’s mind.
“It’s all real.”
Selene swallowed.
“What happened to me?”
A pause.
Then Lyla answered.
“You were not abandoned.”
“You were stolen.”
Selene’s breath stopped.
“By who?”
But Lyla didn’t answer.
Because even she didn’t know everything yet.
Only fragments.
Only pain.
Only echoes.
Jackson suddenly stepped forward.
“No.”
His voice was sharp.
“This doesn’t change anything.”
Selene looked at him.
“Doesn’t it?”
Jackson hesitated.
Just for a second.
Then his wolf surged.
“She is still my mate.”
Alexander immediately turned his head.
“That bond is unstable.”
Jackson growled.
“It’s real.”
Alexander’s eyes narrowed.
“So is hers.”
Silence.
Two Alphas.
Two claims.
One truth breaking apart in the middle.
Suddenly—
Selene winced.
A sharp pulse shot through her chest.
Her vision blurred again.
“No… not again…”
Lyla shouted.
“Selene, stop resisting!”
“I’m not resisting!”
But she was.
Because something inside her was still splitting.
Human.
Wolf.
Bloodwind.
Mate bonds.
Memories.
Everything collided at once.
The room began to shake again.
Cracks appeared along the walls.
Alexander moved instantly.
“She’s destabilizing again.”
Ethel shook his head.
“No.”
His voice was calm now.
“Not destabilizing.”
He looked at Selene with certainty.
“She is integrating.”
Selene dropped to her knees.
“Integrating… what does that mean?!”
Lyla answered.
“It means you are becoming whole.”
Selene shook her head violently.
“I don’t want this!”
But the ancient voice returned.
Calm.
Unyielding.
“You do not choose what you are.”
Selene screamed.
Silver light exploded outward.
This time—
It was not uncontrolled.
It was structured.
Forming.
Rebuilding.
Her body rose slowly from the ground.
Floating slightly above the floor.
Eyes fully silver.
Voice no longer hers alone.
“I am Bloodwind.”
The words echoed through the manor.
Not as a statement.
But as a return.
Jackson stepped back for the first time.
His wolf hesitated.
Mine…?
But the word no longer felt certain.
Alexander stared, expression unreadable.
But inside—
His bond reacted violently.
Stronger than before.
Not weaker.
Not broken.
Evolving.
Ethel fell to his knees again.
This time not in grief.
In recognition.
“My daughter…”
Selene turned her head slowly toward him.
Something softened inside her gaze.
But not fully.
Not yet.
Because the truth was still incomplete.
“Who took me?” she asked.
Silence.
No one answered immediately.
Because all three Alphas understood something terrifying.
If Selene truly remembered everything…
Then the one responsible…
Was still alive.
