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“And you would never if the goddess didn’t love you so much.” She opened her eyes and stared straight at me with her disconcerting eyes. My heart slammed against my ribcage at the implication of her words.
“For the things you have done and the things you may do, you should start apologizing.” Again, more cryptic words! “You heard me when I said you needed to understand each other, to know each other. If you listened to anything I said that day, you would not be having these little misunderstandings growing into ginormous rifts.” I got the distinct feeling she was offended or angry with me.
I’d known Selene before she became an oracle. I did not know her well enough then but for ten years, she had been my oracle. She travelled with me from pack to pack and acted as the pack’s official oracle whenever there was a takeover.
“I listened, but there isn’t much I can do when I do not fully comprehend your words.”
“The goddess communicates as she sees fit. Let me, as her oracle, independent of her voice at this moment, tell you something. You should never discard your mate especially when she opens up about who she is,” she said, preparing to rise.
“Who is she? Those aren’t very clear words, you know.” It seemed more mystery awaited me in the future but I would try to avoid mistakes.
“She is Aysel but before everything else, she is your mate, your predestined. Love her, Alpha. It is your best shot at this point.” She walked to the door.
She got to the door just as Aysel opened it. The two women stared at each other for a while and I felt a silent understanding pass between them while I sat to the side.
“Are you alright?” I stood as she approached me.
My heart ached when I saw her tear-stained face. Her eyes were red and her shoulders slacked as if she returned with all the weight of the world weighing her down. “I’d expected you to return less burdened,” I said.
I wanted to reach out to her, to wipe her tears and hold her close but I remembered how she recoiled from me all those nights ago before Clover sent me those abhorrent pictures. I reached out to her anyway. I wiped her tears and I pulled her into a hug.
She stayed stiff in my arms, making me feel my touch was unwelcome. I felt as if I was pushing her boundaries which was something I swore not to do. I wanted her to heal at her own pace and reach out to me when she trusted me again but I admit that my personality hindered me from giving her the space she obviously craved.
I thought she was to see the oracle for prayers. I expected the goddess to take a bit of her burden but the opposite had happened. When the oracle announced the goddess wanted to speak to her directly, I’d been unsettled. The goddess’ voice, I’d heard, could break a person’s mind. If it was something I could stop, I would have stopped it but I lacked the power to stop the goddess.
The hug lasted a long time. With time, she relaxed in my arms. I felt her body quiver against mine and I heard her sniffing. I held her close until she pushed away from me, wiping her eyes with a teary smile. Then she turned and walked out, leaving me to follow.
We got into to car. Rather than start the car, I turned to her. “What did yeh goddess tell you? You are sadder than you were when you went to see her,” I probed.
She looked at me then looked out through the window next to her. It felt as if she didn’t want to look at me and it stung but I refused to dwell on that emotion. I’d failed her. I was the Alpha that abandoned his pack; his family. Even I could not bear to look at myself.
“She said ” She turned from the window to look straight ahead. “She said a lot of things.” I waited for an elaboration but she didn’t say anything else. I didn’t want to push so I started the car.
“Do you know what happened to my parents?” She asked all of a sudden.
“They died?” That was about as much as I knew about them. “Why?”
“They didn’t just die. They were executed.” My mouth almost dropped open in surprise. I’d thought of how they died a few times but I never imagined it would be by execution.
“For what?” I asked, sparing her a glance. She remained silent for a while. It made me wonder if I was not supposed to ask that.
“I’ll tell you about my parents,” she said after over ten minutes of silence. “If you’re going to hate me, it’s better you hate me now.”
I waited till we got back to the penthouse before I said anything about my parents. Throughout the car ride, he kept shooting me questioning looks as I’d gone completely silent after my declaration.
I went into another room in the penthouse when we got there. I didn’t have anything in this room. In fact, I could count the number of times I’d had anything to do with a room in the penthouse that wasn’t Valens.
My eyes closed the minute I fell into bed but not because I was sleepy. I closed my eyes in a bid to block out a bit of what I was feeling which I knew wasn’t possible. If I could close my eyes to my problems, if not seeing them meant they weren’t there, I would have gorged out my eyes at this point.
‘Tell him. Tell him now,’ Artemis urged me.
There was very little Valens did not already know about me but what he didn’t know about me was more significant than what he knew. My discovery earlier in the day exhausted me. It turned out that I hadn’t known myself either.
I got out of bed, smoothed down my dress and went to the door. I pulled the door open to see Valens about to knock.
“I’m willing to give you everything but space,” he said once he saw me standing at the door. “I understand that you need it. I want to give you space but the last thing I can bear at this point, after everything that has happened, is to let you out of my sight,” he declared. His words were firm and his eyes were hard.
“I said I would tell you about my parents.” I stepped out of the room, walking past him. “Let me tell you now.”
“There is nothing you would say to me that would make me hate you,” he said, following behind me.
If he knew who my mother was he would not say all these things. He would not declare in such a confident tone that he would never hate me when he already hated me. He just didn’t know I was the one he hated.
“When I was eight years old, my parents betrayed Alpha Zavier and his Luna.” I turned to face him as I uttered those words. The shock on his face would have been comical if it wasn’t already expected. I waited for the anger I knew would come after the shock but his expression blanked.
I continued walking to the living room and then I took a seat. “You may want to seat for what I’m about to tell you.” I motioned to the couch facing me. He settled into it without once taking his eyes from me.
“Alpha Zavier was born the leader of this pack. His forefathers found this land, established it, and secured it.” I took a deep breath. “This land became his the day he was born but my father wanted it.”
My mind went back to the days of my childhood, of the random strangers that would be in our home when I came back from school, of the days before I realized what had happened. My parents never involved me. The people that were present were always introduced to me as uncles and aunties who were working on my father’s latest project. My father had been an engineer and he was always working on one project or another. Nothing suspicious there.
“My dad was Alpha Zavier and my father were born to siblings.” I just had all round bad b***d. “My paternal grandmother was older than Alpha Zavier’s father but despite being an Alpha, she could not succeed her father.” This was a problem that Skylar too faced.
Now, a few packs had women as their Alphas but it was a completely new situation and some packs still could not accept it. Like mine. Redville had never seen a female Alpha and although we all knew Skylar was better suited to leadership than Bethel, we weren’t surprised when Zavier announced Bethel as his successor.
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