Theo’s POVLilith had some type of epiphany back in the bedroom.I could feel her trying to work out something as we dressed, but I had left her to it; knowing what we it was, she would tell us if she needed her help.But then she gasped aloud, asking to see Tabitha despite the fact I feel she doesn’t get along with her all that much.Her request confounded me, but I’ve gone along and asked Lucas to have them over for dinner tonight.If her musings are that important, then I guess I should accommodate her and make the meeting happen sooner rather than later.We still need to eliminate the threat of Damian, and maybe Tabitha has the answers to how we do that because I’m sure a shit that he will come back for Lilith.She escaped him, even if with the help of her father, who is the god of witch kind.But I won’t obsess over this now. Not when we drive into the hospital on the pack grounds to see our child.It’s been around five and a half weeks since Lilith went into heat, which would mak
Khai's POVI knew, even before the doctor asked if we wanted to see the sex of our child, what she was. Lilith is holding our daughter. The cursed child.I had tried to avoid this, tried to keep away from Lilith in Damian's pack.I guess you could say his presence made that easier. His distaste for our mated bond scared me into not touching her or consummating our bond sooner. Though the fate was always to have a fated tri-child.Tri, a triple genetic child, would be the first of her kind. You see, although some have been fated to more than one, none have ever survived the intensity of a jealous craze that ends up killing the less dominant lover. Maybe that's where Theo and I get along. He wants Lilith, and for her to be happy, I feel guilty about wanting Lilith and ultimately wanting her to be happy. So there's our medium, our get-out. I'll admit, when I feel the pair of them together, I do get jealous but not the raging ordering jealous. The jealous where I want to join in, li
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