Celeste's POVI sulk the time away in the house as I live with being human once again.The incessant need to eat, to sleep and to take bathroom breaks plagues me.When you're a goddess, these things do not bother you as they do when you are human.It's unsettling sitting around this big ole house by myself with no one to talk to, no one to keep my company.How is Theseus? Is he successfully teaching Lilith to use the powers we know she houses?Have they uncovered any more abilities she may have that we hadn't already known about??The questions are never-ending, the need to know what is happening to my loved ones taking me down the path of stir-crazy.You could call me privileged for having the ability to see what is happening with anyone I choose to search for in the pool of sight, and I have become reliant on using it to check up on those I keep dear to my heart.That's why I'm finding this terribly hard.Usually, I have Theseus here with me. I have his company and do not have to w
Celeste's POVContinued..."I've come to give you back your Goddess aura," Zeus announces loudly the very moment I place my cutlery on the plate."Already?" I ask before I can stop myself."I've seen the error of my ways. I understand you cannot make Theseus come home. It is him that I should be punishing.""Oh," but that isn't what I want."Come?" He summons me, standing from the table with his glasses of wine.He nods to mine as he walks past, so I grab the glass to follow behind him.We walk through the downstairs back to the living room."Play me a song, Celeste..."The piano sits grandly before us, beckoning me to play him his favourite song.The one he always has me play.I sip my wine, drinking the deep red with enthusiasm, and then I place the glass on the sideboard to sit on the bench.Zeus smiles at my obedience as I start to play his favourite song. My fingers dance on top of the keys as the music fills the house with its melancholy.I finish the first piece, moving into th
Lilith's POVThe sonogram was astonishing.The doctor moved a small wand over my tummy to render images of our baby on the screen in front of her.To see an image of this little girl that I hadn't known about until recently really affirmed the fact that I am, indeed, pregnant.Our future is set in stone now; the three of us are to become parents, which means we must ensure this little girl is protected beyond any means of doubt. The Luna ceremony cannot come quickly enough. My integration into the pack seems imperative now.I need to earn the loyalty of all within the pack. I need to know they will protect my child's life with their own if the case were to arise that I needed to depend on them.That's all I think about as we head home in comfortable silence.Theo gushed about how excited he was as we walked out to the car, his voice a soothing balm on my soul as he spoke about how enthralled he was to have a child, a daughter to hand down our pack to when once upon a time he thought
Theseus’s POVMy heart started to beat erratically inside my chest as if it were going to die from a heart attack.I know that isn’t the case, I’m a god, and normal human ailments do not affect me in the same way.Something was happening, something wrong, and I didn’t immediately click on why I felt absolutely terrible.Then it started, the mark on my neck. The slim lines of teeth mark Celeste had left behind not eight millennia ago burning.There’s only one reason such a thing would present itself.Celeste, my love, was sleeping with someone else.I tried to fight the sinking emotions daring me to destroy this world and the next over as I stayed in the kitchen with my child and her friends and partner, trying to keep my head in the now, but I couldn’t.Outside was brewing with my emotions, the weather syncing to my agony.My body is burning with betrayal.Yet, in all the emotions sinking themself into my very being, I knew something was wrong.I knew Celeste would not do this to me.
Khai's POVI cannot believe Theo would call Tabby here on a day such as today when we were supposed to be celebrating the child that is going to be our future. As soon as I saw them, I had to walk away, and I did so quietly as not to make a fuss.Tabitha cannot be trusted. She slept with the enemy, and I don't doubt that she still would be if Celeste had not chosen her another man to be her fated mate.Leo's arrival had been a welcome distraction for Tabby, and his insistence on taking her away had been a happy ending for me.Tabby often interfered with my smuggling of the children.She always questioned me and intercepted me when I was sneaking around.She was a royal pain in my arse, and I hated the fact she knew my future.You see, Damian had her watching everyone's decision, and she informed him of changes in the future courses.Things quietened down after she left. And that meant I was able to go ahead with my private dealings without the backlash I had previously suffered.So
Celeste's POV I can feel him as soon as I stand to look out of the house and into the distance where Zeus had flown like a feather in the wind at my demand. Theseus is here, in the god realm, and he's angry. Of course, he is. What I just did. What I partook in must have heart-wrenchingly hurt him more than anything ever has in his existence. Mates and the bonds that come along with that intertwine our souls with one another. We've been soul mates for as long as time itself. Walking life beside each other, making decisions as a unit to one another and promising to love each other for eternity also. Not three or four months after I came here did I find him, and despite not being a wolf, something inside of me told me he was mine and I were his, and despite him only being a witch, he felt that deep connection to me too. And we marked one another. My teeth marks scared into his neck as one of my wolves would do with their mates, and his magic lived beneath my wrist as witches ma
Eight Years AgoDamian's POVI hate the ugly monster looking back at me in the mirror. His black beady eyes are a mixture of my own dark brown with the depth of the very hell living beneath us, yet it's my body, my face, that looks at me as he teases me with the image of myself in the reflective glass.They suck me in and chew me up only to keep me inside instead of spitting me out—my whirlwind of emotions circles around and around as I live inside this monster of my own body.An internal loop of the same shit, day in and day out.I'm trapped. Trapped in the darkness, Onyx allows me to live in. My only saving grace is the mere thought of escaping one day and ending the pair of us.I've long since had the inability to surface fully. My only option is to watch through the eyes that were once mine—watching people believe that he is me, hating his ability to mimic even the slightest mannerism to fool any innocent bystander. What have I become?Who have I become?The number of stolen chil
Theo's POV Leo and I hang back as Tabby and Lilith walk through the woods, discussing Tabby's time with a witch called Gretchen. Poor Tabby describes a gruesome life with the witch experimenting on her because of her visions. Damian wanted to harvest her gift. He wanted the gift of vision to use to his whim. Leo grits his teeth as Tabby describes the dark magic used to try and siphon her magic. The growl sitting at the base of his throat when she explains how painful it was sometimes makes me wonder how he hasn't killed Damian himself. I think over the times I've seen him near Damian. At how he's able to control the urge to be angry. His ability to be neutral in the face of the man who had hurt his mate, his girl. I don't know if I'll be able to be as Switzerland in the face of that man as he is. In the face of seeing everything he has done to Lilith and Khai, I don't know whether I will now be able to prevent myself from hurting him how he deserves. "Theo?" Lilith calls me.
Zeus's POVThey say evil rules the world, and I'd like to agree wholly especially as I watch Hati finally take the child that will soon become the queen of the earth realm.Theseus died some years ago at my hand as we fought for the title of god. I took his wonderful wife in as my prisoner, indebting her to me at the promise I would let her child, and the grandchildren live peacefully.But I did no such thing. Bringing Theo, Khai and Lilith here to the god realm to be my prisoners with their dear children as they also live out their lives locked within the house they cannot leave.Most believed Theseus would win, that he would take over from me, including his family.But love weakens you, and Goddess Adophen aided me in his demise.She has the gift of projection, and she distracted him easily as she projected herself as his wife and then daughter, taking his concentration and that love that is not a man’s best friend.I'm thankful for her, and I promised her that her daughter and son
15 years LaterHati's POVThe time has come, my beautiful Lorrie has come into her wolf, and I can feel the mate bond calling for her.She's been feeling it too, and though I've kept myself away for the last week I cannot stop the inevitable for much longer.Belle has given her blessing, she's taking the other kids, all five of them, out to the other house for the weekend to give me time with Lorrie alone.It's time for me to claim my mate and create the Luna our pack deserves.So I have Calley cook us dinner, stopping her twice to take her in uncompromising positions as she mutters her disapproval very loudly.And then I lock her down in the cells below the house for the remainder of the weekend intent on making sure she knows her place within this pack.Soon she'll have to answer to Lorrie instead of Belle. She'll have to bow down to her luna's disappointment and she's already made a distant enemy of Aspen over the years."Bring me the luna," I demand to Belle as she gathers our chi
Hati's POVTrue to a wolf pregnancy Belle is only pregnant for around nine weeks, her belly swelling fast as she grows my pup within her.And one fateful night as the wind howls and the rain falls she starts her labour as we lay our son to sleep.Lorrie refuses to go down and starts to get in the way as Belle circles on the floor through her pain as Lorrie tries to hold onto her mothers hands."Mama, up," she cries asking for up as she outstretched her arms up to Belle who looks to me for help as she winces once more."Calley," I yell out, intent on having Lorrie away from this ordeal, knowing I have no one else I'd rather trust with the child.Yes she might well have an ulterior motive, but I have no doubt that she would die for this kid. Anyway, I don't want to scar the child, I don't want her to remember her mother in pain when I want her to have only good memories of her.It takes Calley a moment but she comes, knocking on the door in her pj's as she looks at the vision before he
One Year LaterHati's POVLorrie has turned into a funny little thing. She's walking and talking in toddler gibberish and I fall in love with her more everyday as she fills our life with fun and happiness.I can see why Celeste matched her soul to Aspens. She's spunky, confident and happy just like Aspen has always been. We ended up relocating around three to four months ago, coming out of hiding, leaving the continental US.Now we live in the very green Scotland, in the rainy United Kingdom.We've decided to try and blend in, whilst living in the middle of nowhere.It's been an adjustment weather wise, but we really don't come by people often, and the home we brought is surrounded by acres of green forest which is perfect for us to shift.And shift we must, because the lack of shifting causes aging, and that brings problems regarding healing one's self because our bodies resort to being only human.And I have a surprise for you, something I never imagined or cared for but equally was
Khai's POV"Aaah!" She screams as pain radiates through her mid region. I hadn't expected her to wake from her nap in pain, I also hadn't expected her to tell me we won't be finding Lora but she did that to and despite knowing she probably has the gifts to see such things, I deny her allegations and pretend that we will find her. To say she took me off guard would be an understatement but all I could do was call for Theo Lilith has gone into labour a whole week before she's due but I think that's normal for multiple pregnancy but no less scary as she freaks at the pain and wails into my shoulder.She labours in bed, standing up and even in the shower.The whole time crying for Lora, feeling as if she might be replacing her with the children coming out from within her tummy.Sadness fills the room and the three of us did not enjoy the birth process at all.Our sons entered the world screaming loudly, clearing their lungs within minutes of each other and though Theo and I wanted to c
Lilith's POVDane is adamant that Damian isn't dead and equally as adamant that I can use my memory to summon where his whereabouts.Apparently the witch side of me can teleport, and that's a given because I have done before but never have I teleported to a person specifically, only a place.But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.Of course it does, if I can summon a place, then I can summon a person, right?I just have to practice, apparently. It still astounds me how much he knows about me when most know nothing about me at all.And it just so happens that I feel closest to him out of anyone I've met.I'm having a bad day today, pain is radiating along my back, a sharp stabbing pain accompanying it whenever I stand for to long.I think it's the twins, my boys that are currently safe within me.I miss Lora.I miss Calley.Heck, I even miss Lucas.I can only hope that one of them with with my baby girl, that they are doing everything in their power to protect her from
Hati's POVA further two and a half weeks have passed as we live in this humid and small place in hipster being on top of one another. My men have broken all the agreements I even made with Gretchen, her witches becoming the slaves they are used to which had disfavoured the respect the witch have held for me. But needs must and all that.Even I and finding it hard not to play outside of Belle.Take yesterday for example.Calley had been caring for the child as she has been for over two weeks, ensuring Lorrie remains quiet and happy to limit the time the child spends with Belle.I'm not stupid and I had noticed how she would try to prevent any crying coming from Lorrie.The child has grown far quicker than I thought possible, her growth excelled.She's standing against furniture, giggling and eating some solids, but that's just a trigger for me.I've told Calley she must feed from Belle and she's purposely ignoring my request. Ensuring Lorrie skipped three feeding sessions yesterday.
Theo’s POVThe days have passed in unimaginable pain as I mourn the theft of my child, and I also watch my mates do the same thing.I feel like an utter failure, and as I sit and ponder the reality I then realise I lost my best friend, beta and Calley and Arlo in one foul swoop.How did such a thing happen so easily?Especially when we trained to prevent such a thing.Even Danes members failed miserably and he’s travelling here today, his communication less than moody.I’ve been sitting alone in my office pondering life and the atrocities that have amounted to this very day and I see all of my failures. Can count them precisely.I suppose that’s why I’m avoiding everyone.What type of Alpha fails his people?!My computer pings with an email, giving me a welcome distraction as I jump out of my own mind to concentrate on something other than the trashy surrounding me.It’s Dane, he’s crossing the border. Warning me incase the pack decide to attack.I feel awful, despite being down two t
Three Weeks Later Hati's POVWeeks pass as we adjust to living here below the burned pack-land of Leo.I cannot believe he's still alive, but then again what more can I expect from these peasants and their ability to slip through my fingers?The child, Lora. Or Lorrie as we've been calling her has settle very nicely. She's sitting by herself now, rolling around and has become very content within this smaller pack of mine, and everyone loves her. Worshiping their lunar even in this childish stage of her life.And the girl, Calley, keeps a very close eye on her.That day was quite something when we tied our blood in a bonding agreement."Eko, eko, azarak. Eko, eko, zomelak. Bagabi lacha bachabe, Lamac cahi achababe. Eko, eko, azarak. Eko, eko, zomelak," Gretchen had changed as she created the bond that would be undeniable."Repeat after me, girl. I, fill name, solemnly swear to bind my blood with Hati in agreement for servitude. Bonding our blood forever more as I lay my life down at