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“Once, he cursed my name but he repented before I reacted. I had my plan set out but I knew I had to do something urgently to save him. I made you and gave you the other half of his soul. I made you from Miriam because I know a mate bond is the only thing stronger than my prince’s thirst for vengeance.”
I looked at a curtain dance softly in the windless room. I stood and walked over to the window. Drawing the curtains and opening the louvers, I leaned out to watch the people passing. I looked to see if there were people like me out there who the goddess had used as mere pawns.
“What of Lucien? He was my first mate,” I said.
I didn’t see anyone who had been created for the sole purpose of helping a vengeful prince. I didn’t see anyone who had suffered like I had because the goddess chose me as a pawn. No, she hadn’t chosen me as a pawn; she made me to be a pawn.
“Lucien was a mere distraction. In another life, with another wolf, you may have been together but I gave you Lucien to calm you.” I turned, forgetting again that I couldn’t see her. “Artemis has always displaced initial signs of latency in her previous lives. I did not want you to question if you were truly my creation so I gave you Lucien. He was never in your future. I tried to hint at you that there were better things ahead but you took it the wrong way, sadly.”
Sadly? Sadly!?
“You are admitting that you condemned me to a life of suffering because you wanted to stop your ‘dearest prince’ from walking the path of vengeance?” I wiped tears from my eyes. “You are admitting that I suffered for nothing because I was born a mere pawn? A way for you to get back into your prince’s good books?” This time, I fell into a seat because it was all too much.
I’d suffered for nothing. Every moment in my life had simply been leading up to when I mated with Valens and he fell in love and abandoned his vow of vengeance.
“Your lineage is cursed,” the goddess reminded me.
“You cursed my lineage. I am part of a cursed lineage because you specifically made me to be a part of a cursed lineage!” I screamed.
“I understand if you are angry.” Angry? Angry didn’t begin to cut it. I was feeling too many things all at once and they made me feel like I was about to explode.
“I have not been fair to you so I am offering to grant you one unconditional wish. You can take your time to think ”
“My child! Give me back my child!” What was there to think about?
“They had no wolf yet so I cannot do that. I am sorry but that child was never in your future. You will have children in the future but ”
“Children? I can’t even stand the sight of my mate! Give me my child back or you can forget everything. I will curse your name here and now. I will desecrate this temple and laugh when you strike me down because then everything you’ve put in place would be ruined.”
“It is not in my power to do. Your bitterness is radiating off you. I am watching your heart turn black with every passing second. I want to halt that darkness but the child had no wolf. It cannot be brought back. Choose something else.”
“Then magic.” I laughed. “Give me back the magic you took from my people.”
I knew I wouldn’t get it because she was a useless goddess. Her eyes flashed as if she heard my thoughts. She was in my head and could see my heart so she must have.
“I took away magic for a reason.”
“If you cannot give me magic, you cannot give me anything.” I stood as if I could walk out and evade her voice.
“I can give you a child. If you want it, you will conceive this night with as many children as you want in your womb at once,” she whispered as if it was a good deal.
“You will give me a child anyway. No, you will give your prince a child because you are eager to atone for the years you left him to wander but I am nobody so you cannot grant me a wish.” I sighed. “You know what? Now that I know all these, I am going as far away from him as possible. He may not hunt me down if he finds out who I am but he is a deserter Alpha. He will leave once again and my pack and I will have to deal with the calamity he causes. Do you even think I want to lay with him anymore?”
“Very well.” She seemed resigned. I picked my way to the door but her next words made me pause. “I will grant you your magic but only when you love your mate.”
“You granted me an unconditional wish. I owe you nothing,” I reminded her.
“Fair enough.” She sighed again. “You will have the magic you would have had if I never cursed the magic tree but let me make you a deal this time.” She paused and I raised a brow to show I was listening. “I will restore magic to werewolves through your lineage. Your children will be born as princes and princesses with magical powers and their children will be the same but I will only do this if you give your mate a second chance. If you leave him, you will never find happiness and whatever magical powers you get will die with you.”
‘Valens he When Redville needed an Alpha, when I needed an Alpha, when my baby needed an Alpha, he wasn’t there. He is the Alpha that abandoned his pack.’
Those words played in my head as I sat outside of the inner shrine. The oracle sat facing me, her eyes closed and head lifted to the ceiling as if she was in a trance or asleep.
I was reaping the fruits of my lack of foresight.
‘Is it just a lack of foresight?’ Zino asked, yawning. I ignored him. He didn’t get to feel the brunt of her anger so I didn’t expect him to fully understand. I, on the other hand, felt the anger simmering just beneath her skin. And it was more than the anger; there was also resignation, sadness and an obvious lack of trust.
‘You subconsciously wanted to punish me!’ She’d yelled at me and I knew that was what she believed.
I searched my heart, my mind, and even tried to see into my soul. No part of me wanted to punish my mate when I saw those pictures. I’d been hurt and betrayed. I didn’t trust her enough to reconsider but I’d not once thought of punishing her. My main thought then was getting out. For the first time in a long time, I’d felt overwhelmed. I lost control of my wolf and the only thing to do was to go far away.
I ran for hours without getting exhausted. My anger in the face of what I called betrayal, served as an enduring energy source for running. I ran till the skies darkened and I was still running when the skies started to lighten. I only paused for a short time before I continued into one of the packs under my control. I booked the next flight from there and in my mind, it was goodbye.
‘You knew of her history with the past Alpha but you didn’t care when you left,’ Zino said but still, I ignored him. We wouldn’t start the blame game.
“I warned you this would happen.” I looked up at the oracle who was still looking at the ceiling.
“When did you warn me?” Her cryptic words never helped me. She never spoke directly. I wasn’t an oracle. I couldn’t decipher the meanings behind cryptic, supposedly divine words.
“When you came here, I told you to let her wear the crown but you refused.”Exasperation made me finger my neckline.
My mother’s crown had been returned to its original place despite the oracle’s advice but I didn’t see how it would have averted the crisis as we hadn’t even had our Mating Ceremony!
“We haven’t had the Ceremony yet,” I reminded Selene. I’d often heard that oracles tended to mix up the past, present and future, as well as reality and visions.
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