Chosen by Fate, Rejected by the Alpha

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Reece

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If I thought what I saw through the previous door was bad, that was nothing compared to this place.

The images had once again spun and twisted around like it had done every time before this, like it did with every door apparently. And when it stopped spinning, when we had made it to the other side of this door and landed, I almost cried out in horror.

This place, wherever and whatever it was, it definitely was not suitable for my little Talia's eyes. This place looked like the truest of all definitions of hell. This place looked worse than the last one where people were being tortured. Here though, it was a lot more gruesome. It was a lot more evil.

"Daddy, what does damnation mean?" Talia asked me, turning her head away from the images to look at me.

"I will tell you later, baby girl. This isn't something that you need to be seeing right now." I tried to hide her eyes. "Talia, sweetheart, will this screen stay here if you were to leave the room? Or will it go away?"

"I made it so that it would stay until Mommy comes home. I didn't want to only see Mommy this one time. I want to see her all the time until she's back with us."

I knew that she missed her mother. I knew that she would want to stay here and watch her the entire time if she could. However, if my Little Bunny was going to be in this place for a while, then I would need to keep Talia, as well as Reagan and Rika, away from this screen. I didn't want them to see what was happening in the background. Talia might not have seen too much yet, but I didn't need her to see it at all. I wanted to protect her little mind. She probably didn't understand what was happening yet, but that didn't mean that she needed to be exposed to it all so young. I had to preserve her innocence for the time being. Forever if I could.

"OK Talia, let's make a deal here. I promise to let you come back to see Mommy when she is on the screen at just one time. But I also need you to not look at anything else that is happening in the background. There is a lot of bad stuff in there and you don't need to see it."

"I know, Daddy. I saw it. I just ignored it. That place has bad things happening to bad people. It's the part of the underwear world where all the bad people go. I don't know why Mommy is in the bad part. She is a good person. But I know that Mommy will be back and that is all that matters to me."

"Thank you, sweetheart." I hugged her to me, burying her face in my chest as I did so. "Thank you for being such an amazing little girl."

"I'm just me, Daddy, nothing more and nothing less." She smiled at me then turned her head toward the screen, though she couldn't see it at the moment. "Please follow my mommy. Please show my daddy where my mommy is and stay with her until she comes home." I knew she was talking to the someone, or something, that was on the other side of the door.

"Thank you, baby girl. Thank you for doing this for me." I couldn't keep the tears out of my eyes as I spoke to her. And even then, one of them rolled down my cheek. I was literally crying in front of my daughter.

"Don't cry, Daddy. I know that you miss Mommy as much as I do. I cried too. In the beginning I cried a lot. I know it's hard and we all miss her. But she will be home soon and then we can all hug her and feel her hug us back." At that moment my adorable little Talia wiped away my tears and hugged me again. I didn't know how to respond so I just held her for a few moments.

After she left me, everyone else hugged her too. Wesley, Eve, Noah, Carter, Juniper, Trevor, Gloriana, Valerian, everyone that came with us all hugged her as she left the room. And right before she left, I saw that the twins went with her. They truly did revere her. They were like her own personal servants now or something.

"Reece, I think we need to watch what is happening now." Noah called out to me as he looked at the magical screen that was still there. I took his words to heart and moved immediately. I spun and watched the images moving before my eyes.

They weren't moving at hyper speed now. Nope, now it seemed that everything was moving normally. Nothing was being sped up to hurry us along to where she was. That was because this was where my Little Bunny was.

I saw her then. My wife. My mate. My everything. She was standing there with five other people. There was a very large man, even taller than Trevor. Another man that was maybe my height. And, of course, three identical little boys.

The boys looked like they were around Talia's age right then. They were maybe three or four years old. It was kind of hard to tell since they looked like they kept changing as I watched them. Sometimes they appeared that age, sometimes younger. And other times they looked older. And all of that happened in the span of maybe five seconds. I could only imagine what it was like for my Little Bunny to look at them and see them constantly.

"Trinity?" I called out to her, walking toward the screen just a little more. "Oh, Trinity, how I have missed you." I wanted to walk through the screen to her, but I knew that wasn't possible. If it were, Talia would have told me about it. And I would definitely have been on that side in a heartbeat if I was able to be with my wife again.

Not to mention, I would have leapt over there to protect her from those two men. I mean, what was my sweet, adorable, crazy, insane, beautiful Little Bunny thinking right now? How could she be gallivanting all across hell with other men? Who were they? Why were they with her? What was the meaning of this?

"Reece?" Someone called out to me but I ignored them. "REECE!" they called me again, louder this time. "CALM DOWN, CUJO!" This time I heard Noah's voice and turned to look at him.

"What?" I snapped at him.

"You're shifting into your Lycan form. You need to calm down." He pointed at my face so I lifted my right hand and felt my cheek. Yup, sure enough, it was covered in thick fur.

"Sorry." I slumped my shoulders.

"Just calm down, Reece. It's fine. You can see her now. You can probably hear her too. This is a good development. So just calm down and let's see what she is going to do now." Noah was speaking in a calm, soothing voice.

"Yeah, Reece's Pieces, it's time for us to watch the Trinity Show." Juniper smiled. She was on the verge of tears as well, but that just showed me how much she missed her friend. She wanted to know what was going on as well, but I was stealing the spotlight here.

"Yeah, let's see what my Little Bunny is up to now." They had both used nicknames with me just now, so of course I was going to use the nickname for my wife as well. They all knew what it was anyway.. It was far from being a secret.