Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert
Because they come when they please and don’t depend on my wishes. But the powers develop slowly. The particles of divine power we receive grow or d*ie- It depends on the person who received them and the intention of the god who blessed them. It can go either way.”
“That explains why you and Kai have special marks,” Savannah chimed in. “But why do Gideon and me? We aren’t the blessed wolves, but our marks are the same as yours.”
“That’s because we’re mates, of course,” Ria smiled gently, and her eyes found her husband. “A mating bond is a special connection between two souls. When one of the mates gets hurt, their mate feels it. When one mate feels happy, so does the other one. It works the same. When one of the mates becomes a divine wolf, so does the other.
Mates share everything, including divine blessings, because it’s spiritual and given to a soul, not a body. And a mark is a reflection of that spiritual bond.”
“If l understand it correctly, Gideon sees the future too now?” Kai looked at his old rival, arching his brow curiously.
“Not really,” the Western Lycan King admitted. “
But some things are different for me now.”
“Like what?” The northerner wondered, scratching his beard that needed some trimming desperately, but he chose not to waste his time on that this morning and stole a few extra minutes to spend with his Queen.
“The return from the third form,” Savannah whispered, but in a room full of wolves, everyone heard her. It was so logical. Since she was little, she had the worst control of her third form. Compared to Gideon, her control of the beast was weak. It wasn’t good, it wasn’t bad. It was just how things were. For as long as she could remember, she was trained not to let her beast out because everyone knew that it was possible the Princess wouldn’t be able to get back to her human form. The royal transformation could cost her too much and mostly, it was not worth it, considering she was a good enough fighter in her second form. But just one day ago, she was ready to sacrifice herself for her friends when she shifted into her third form in Bjorn’s castle. Savannah knew there would be no return from that. There wasn’t supposed to be a return from that…
Yet here she was.
Because of him.
She glanced at Kai, and he squeezed her palm.
A simple motion, but with such a deep meaning behind it. He received Fenrir’s blessing, and the same Wolf God made them mates. He connected their souls with the help of the mysterious bead at the best of times, thus, helping Savvy to turn back the moment she saw her mate in the woods. The same thing happened to her brother a few months ago. He stayed in his third form for longer than it was safe during a brutal battle, and they almost lost him that day. However, Riannon found him on the battlefield and as if by some miracle, Gideon came back. They never connected the dots back then, but now it was clear as day. The royal curse was broken by divine wolf mates.
And that meant one thing – they were given an ultimate weapon in the upcoming war.
They wished they could talk about all this more, but unfortunately, they had more pressing matters at hand. The bears would retaliate one way or another. No one had any illusions about resolving this matter peacefully.
Savannah and Kai joined the rest of the team the table and started going through what had been planned so far. A few hours later, all of them were exhausted, but they knew that so much more had to be done still. Somewhere into the eighth hour of their strategizing, the doors burst open and in came Chloe and Claude.
The TV-presenters looked troubled and everyone knew that the news wouldn’t be good.
“You have to see this!” Chloe insisted and passed a tablet into her king’s hands.
Kai gave her a glance that told her he still wasn’t sure whether he forgave them for their latest actions, and the siblings bowed apologetically without saying anything.
However, all that became irrelevant the moment he saw the face of his enemy staring right at him from the screen. It took him a minute to realise that it wasn’t an old video. His eyes went to the bottom of the screen where the date was showcased. This was recorded today.
Bjorn was alive. Which could mean only one thing – he would be back very soon, and all their plans had to be adjusted accordingly.
“What can you say about the recent video of Savannah Stormhold circling on the web,” a
reporter asked him, and Bjorn’s expression darkened.
“Queen Savannah Bjorn,” he corrected the journalist with a frown. “Savannah is my mate and my Queen. She will always stay my mate and my Queen. You should address her according to her status.”
The words made Kai grip the tablet so hard that it cracked under pressure in a few places.
“I have a perfectly good explanation as to why my mate attacked me in the middle of the mating ceremony,” the white bear growled, showing off his teeth, but then he got his emotions under control and continued, “We were so happy and planned to spend our whole life together. It’s a blessing to find a mate, and I am sure everyone understands our euphoria. Just when | left her that morning, she k!ssed me goodbye and said that she couldn’t wait to get my mark on her neck. She couldn’t wait for it to happen, but when I saw her again, she attacked me, and it broke my heart. Savannah stabbed me and ran away, leaving only questions in her wake.
But luckily, a good friend of mine helped me to understand that something was wrong with her.
She wasn’t acting like herself. I was worried sick about my Queen, and of course, I followed her the second I healed. I couldn’t leave the love of my life like that. My sold*iers tried to help her, but she tried to K*ll everyone who approached her. That was the state she was in. When I finally managed to reach her, I understood what was going on and who had done this to her. There was this… creature. There are no other words to describe him. He made her believe in the things that weren’t real. It was the ugliest thing I had ever seen. A mutated wolf with a distorted body and horns covered with ice. I am not sure he was a wolf anymore, but when he shifted, he looked like the deceased Lycan King of the North.”
“So, do you confirm that King Kai Fionnlagh is alive?” the reporter asked emotionlessly, and Chloe clicked her tongue in annoyance. It probably wasn’t the first time she heard it all because she had her hands crossed over her chest and didn’t seem impressed.
“He can’t be alive,” Bjorn said confidently. “We fought, and I personally put a silver spear through his heart. It was recorded back then, so it’s undeniable.”
“But how can you explain what you saw then?” the journalist seemed eager to get to the bottom of things, and everyone in the room tensed, waiting for the reply.
“How else?” Bjorn quirked his silver brow up.
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