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“What happened?” Mateo asks, while Maddox stirred within me frantically. Ares growls within Mateo making my eyes dart to him before a guttural scream tears from him. I thought he was hurt at first before I saw what he was staring at behind me on the grass. She was covered in dust. Maddox howls in agony. The scream that left me realising she was dead matched the agony of Maddox’s howl as I reached for her, ripping her to me. Mateo wailed inconsolable as he clutched his hair rocking back and forth.
“Kitty” Maddox sobs in my head. I sink my teeth into her neck hoping I could take it, take it from her, take it back somehow yet nothing. The light in her gold eyes dim yet she smiled in her death. Her eyes peered up lifelessly.
My heart shattered like glass, burst within my chest into a million sharp shards tearing me to pieces as I clutched her to me.
“Kat?” I hear Derrick whisper as he collapses in front of me. I look up at him and see how crushed he is before seeing hundreds of people surrounding us. Andrei, drenched in blood, collapses beside his father. His eyes on Kat in my arms, my hands tangled in her hair, her body completely limp as Mateo leans into me. Through the bond I feel nothing, he was dead inside as he stared blankly ahead.
I don’t think he realized we were surrounded by everyone when the crowd parted. Alpha Nicholas came forward through the crowd before stopping dead in his tracks. I couldn’t stop the tears from rolling down my cheeks. Praying this was some sick nightmare I was stuck in and just needed to wake up from.
I felt hollow like a part of me was missing. Andrei pulls his father to him as his entire body racked with sobs. Everything falls silent and nobody moves, everyone is aware of the sacrifice she just made, made for them, made for us.
“She forgave me, How is it that a mere mortal of a wolf thinks she can forgive me?” A feminine voice comes, ringing clearly. I hear cackling laughter echoing around us. I growl how anyone could be laughing when she just gave her life for so many infuriated me.
Everyone peers around trying to find the source before their eyes look behind me and I turn to see what they are looking at. A woman walking toward us. She has long blonde hair flowing to the back of her knees, her white gown flowing to the ground yet untouched by the debris and blood that stains the earth. I hear movement behind me and hear them gasp taking a step back and I could feel the authority oozing off her in waves, her aura so strong it made me want to bare my neck to her.
Mateo growls and she waves her hand dismissively at him.
“calm down Mateo Calder, you should know better than to get on the bad side of a Goddess, hasn’t Kat taught you anything?” She says, her chin held high like nothing could touch her, she was beautiful but she was the reason my mate was dead. I growl standing up with Kat still in my arms.
“I came to offer my condolences, but then she apologised and forgave me” She says with a laugh and I could tell she was baffled, yet I had no idea what she was talking about but it was like she felt insulted.
” I always liked Katya she was different, so much more” ¨C “You k!lled her” I growled at her, cutting her off.
“No she paid the price, though I was hoping it wasn’t with her life, but her love for both of you and her people was far stronger than I thought. She truly was a selfless girl. She always believed she was never good enough, not fit to be Luna and lacked the confidence of who she truly is” She pauses and I watch as she steps closer. I wanted her blood, wanted to tear her to pieces for what she did, yet I couldn’t move, only watch her.
“Though I admit watching her grow up, I always felt bad about her being cursed and blessed. I knew she would break the curse and she did the moment she accepted you both”
“If she broke it, why is she dead?” Mateo yells at her, his anger bubbling over. The Moon Goddess seems unfazed that he screamed at her, just raising an eyebrow at him before touching her chin with her finger looking at Kat, like she was thinking of some hard math equation. My anger was reaching boiling point, did she come to gloat that she k!lled my mate?
“No, I came to help” She says, reading my thoughts. Her eyes darted to mine and I take a step away from her. Her eyes pierced into me like she could see the darkest parts of my soul.
“You came to help?” I ask, incredulous.
“Well I had a bit of a soft spot for her and Kora will never let me live it down, that incessant whining pup. I was nearly tempted to give her back just to shut her up” The Moon Goddess says, making me think of when Kat asked for a refund when Kora came to her, Maddox feeling quite smug about her annoying the Moon Goddess.
“How?” I ask.
“How indeed, I have never wanted to fiddle with fate like this, never felt anyone deserved it more than she does but most of all she forgave me?” She says like it was some unbelievable thing, did the Moon
Goddess really think this wasn’t her fault?
” It wasn’t my fault, I never asked for Marabella to curse me out. I had to set an example, show them the hardships”
“So you cursed her entire bloodline, because Marabella wasn’t enough you cursed the entire bloodline”I tell her and she looks at Kat again, her lips pursing thoughtfully and if I didn’t know better, I would think she actually felt guilt only because Kat apparently apologised to her and forgave her? I look around and find everyone on their knees in worship before realising Mateo and I were the only ones still standing.
“She was meant to decide between Mateo and you but instead she chose death and now I can’t bring her back without a price, she ruined it, she could have lived happily enough without one of you because she would have had her kids but she ruined it” Seline says, this was our mighty Moon Goddess?
I almost shake my head, I don’t even know how she is here standing in front of me and I am pissed at her yet also in awe of her, the strangest feeling.
“What is the price?” Mateo asks.
” I am” She says, ” I am the price that will have to pay and Katya will never be free, she will forever be cursed like me” She says.
“Cursed like you?” I asked, confused.
“Yes, you think being a Goddess is a blessing. You watch everyone you have ever known and loved around you die, you live and live while being forced to decide who you pair together, who you let live, everything is a choice, I chose this, like Marabella chose the curse. I thought it would ease the burden a little with her tempting fate, only it gave me a headache while trying to take the damn thing back, trying to show them how to break it and restore the power back to me. The curse should have died out when Katya did” She says rubbing her temples like she did have a headache.
Even while angered and moping she still had this regal air around her, like she was untouchable and above all and she is, yet it was hard to believe the Moon Goddess was put out by my little mate, that she could have such an effect on her.
The Moon Goddess walks over to me before taking Kat from my arms like she weighed nothing before placing her on a bench, it would have to be the only one left standing in the school and the Moon
Goddess places her on top of it. She strokes Katya’s hair from her face brushing her cheek gently.
“When you were born, I knew you would be great from the moment I heard you scream, such a way to be brought into this world and you fought with everything to make it out alive. Only a true goddess would give it all up for her people just like I did to save mine a long time ago” She tells Kat, yet I couldn’t move, couldn’t believe what I was seeing as a tear slipped down the Moon Goddesses cheek and I could tell she truly loved Kat. Kat was special to her for some reason.
“And for that I give you a piece of me, for that I make you a Queen. I bless you my Gemini wolf and I gift you with your life, one you never deserved to have taken by me, you shall be my first Alpha of
Alpha’s and with it comes great responsibility, you died like a Queen and now I make you one” She whispers to Kat before she bends down and presses her lips to Kat’s. Light so bright makes me squint, it was like looking at the sun and I could feel the touch of her powers as she used them on Kat.
I watch as the Moon Goddess stands to look back at Mateo and I before feeling the bond snap into place, and I clutch my neck. I feel her mark returning and I see ours appearing on Kat’s neck, I feel a calmness through the bond, a sense of home, the void closing and I feel like I could breathe again.
“Now I think Seline is a good enough payment” She says and my brows furrowed in confusion.
“Excuse me?” I ask, confused.
“For a middle name for your daughter” She says with a smile. I looked at Kat before turning back to look at her but she was gone, just vanished into thin air when I heard Kat gasp. Everyone eyes snapping toward her, her eyes snapping open as she sucks in a massive lung full of air.
“Kat! ” Matoe says rushing over to her and tugging her to him and she looks around stunned, clinging to him. I clutch them both, shocked at what happened. She is alive. I hang onto them like they are my life line and they are because without them no life is worth living because they are exactly that my life.
Katya POV
I was dead, I knew I was dead by the weightlessness before I felt myself being pulled back, my sense of self becoming heavier as I was being pulled back to the heavy weight of life. I remember hearing the
Moon Goddess voice, her voice soothing as she guided me back.
“When you were born, I knew you would be great from the moment I heard you scream, such a way to be brought into this world and you fought with everything to make it out alive. Only a true goddess would give it all up for her people just like I did to save mine a long time ago” She tells me. I could feel her presence, it was hard to explain, feel her energy holding me some place, warm and loving, even without breathing I felt a peace.
“And for that I give you a piece of me, for that I make you a Queen. I bless you my Gemini wolf and I gifted you with your life, one you never deserved to have taken by me, you shall be my first Alpha of
Alpha’s and with it comes great responsibility, you died like a Queen and now I make you one” She whispers to me. I felt confused by her words before I heard her laugh yet I could feel she was gone yet
I could still hear laughing in my head. As the heaviness became fullness, before a sense of wholeness.
“I have gifted you great power Kat, I know you will use it wisely” She tells me.
“What do you mean?” I try to ask but no words escape me yet she answers internal thoughts.
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