Filed to story: Werewolfs Heartsong by Dizzy Izzy
‘Closure…he needs closure.’ Selena said.
Although she didn’t respond verbally, Alora felt Xena’s agreement with Selena’s statement.
Alora accepted Matthew’s answer and his need for this fight with a nod. Alora decided she would give him a good fight, and entered into a ready fighting stance and waited.
Matthew felt a sense of relief when Alora simply nodded at his answer and took her fighter’s stance. He made the first move, coming at her fast, but not fast enough. Alora moved in a fluid motion that was even faster than his own, deflecting the punch he had aimed at her solar plexus. Then in a beautiful flow of motion that was almost like a dance, she swept his feet out from under him.
Matthew reacted fast as he fell, twisting his body in the air to land on his feet and then jumping back a few feet. He barely had time to take a defensive pose before Alora made a powerful jab to his ribs, he grunted in pain when her fist connected. Alora followed the jab up with a kick to his other side. He lowered an arm to block the kick, and grunted in pain as the kick nearly broke his arm.
The kick had sent Matthew stumbling to the side a bit, he and his wolf admired the amount of power Alora had as they regained their balance. Matthew went in for another. attack, only to have it beautifully deflected before receiving another brutal blow. At one point Matthew felt like they were a lowly peasant going up against a powerful Goddess. Ast the battle wore on, Matt increasingly felt like his moves were slow and bumbling while
Alora’s were fast and graceful.
Eventually, when it got closer to the end of the five allotted minutes for the fight, Aloral decided the battle needed to end definitively. With a whip-like kick to Matthew’s stomach, she sent him flying off the platform and across the arena floor. He rolled a few times, before
coming to a stop on his back. Matt let out a pain filled groan when he landed on his back and didn’t bother to get up as the countdown started.
After the countdown ended, Alora hopped off the platform and calmly walked over te
Matthew. Coming to a stop she looked down and met his gaze. There in his eyes, Alora could see that the battle they fought had given him the closure he had sought from it. Alora reached her hand out in an offer, he looked at it in confusion for a moment, before he accepted her help to his feet.
Matthew was taller than Alora, so once he was on his feet, she had to look up to meet his gaze. Alora decided Matthew deserved to know what the Moon Goddess and her consort had told Xena, Selena and her. At least the part of it that involved him.
“Be at peace, our rejection of each other was a part of a greater plan our Moon Goddess had for us. We were both under powerful black magic spells that only a rejection was able to break. Your real fated mate is out there somewhere just as mine is.”
Alora kept her voice low, to keep anyone but Matthew from hearing her.
Matthew looked at Alora in surprise, shocked at what she had told him. However, before he could come back to his senses and ask her questions, Alora had already made her way back across the arena. It was another moment before Matthew started to follow, as he needed to make his own way back to his seat.
‘Ares?’ Matthew asked.
I sensed only the truth in her words.’ Ares answered.
As Alora walked away from Matthew, she felt as if she was closing one more chapter of her adolescent life and opening another of her adult life. It was an odd feeling to her, not a bad odd, just an odd feeling. Approaching her seat, she met Darien’s questioning and worried gaze.
“I’m fine, we both needed the fight.” Alora said, not needing to wait for the question that his eyes had been asking.
Darien frowned, his expression still worried. “What was it you were telling him when you helped him up?”
Alora sat down next to Darien and let out a resigned sigh, knowing he would just keep asking her questions if she didn’t answer him. “I told him what the Moon Goddess told me, that our rejection of each other was necessary. Told him his true fated mate was out there somewhere.”
Darien blinked in surprise, struck silent for a moment. What Alora had done was incredibly generous. It also told Darien that
Alora didn’t hold Matt’s rejection of her against him.
“You’ve forgiven him?” Darien asked, although it sounded more like a statement.
Alora nodded. “I have. What happened was tragic, but necessary.” The tragic necessity of what happened allowed Alora the ability to forgive, what would normally have been unforgivable.
“Got a text from Darien.” Ember said to Andrew, she leaned against his side and showed him the message.
“Alora wants me to go with her when she goes back to the Northmountain’s to collect all her things. She said I would be able to provide a distraction as her ‘distinguished’ guest while she snuck up to her room.”
Ember looked and met her mate’s gaze, he had one eyebrow raised and an amused smile lifting one corner of his handsome mouth. “A distraction as her ‘distinguished’ guest huh?”
A smile stretched across Ember’s plump lips, and a mischievous gleam lit her eyes.
“While the youngest son of the Pack Alpha and Alpha of Alpha’s is certainly a ‘distinguished’ guest.” She paused and raised a hand to run an index finger flirtatiously over Andrew’s chin. “Who could possibly be a more ‘distinguished’ guest than the Pack
Alpha and the Alpha of Alpha’s himself?”
Alpha Andrew let out a dark chuckle that made Ember shiver in appreciation. Andrew lifted his hand and cupped Ember’s cheek gently. “Only my mate, the Pack Luna and Luna of Luna’s could possibly be a more ‘distinguished’ guest.”
Ember felt herself melt at his words. “Oh, you are good my darling. You know just how to flatter a female.”
Leaning down, Andrew brushed his lips against hers while looking deep into her eyes. “Only you my sweet, only ever you.” He murmured in a husky voice, before fastening his mouth to hers and giving her a deep kiss that left them both panting.