173 : You want this?

VERENA

“All of this is too complicated,” I groan in frustration and massage my throbbing temple.

Elijah smiles and I gasp when he rolls his body to the right, making me lay beneath him on the bed. He gets on top of me and caresses my cheek with the back of his hand. “You don’t have to stress your pretty little head over such matters for now.”

I sigh. “But if the Goddess is really dead and the mate bond is being messed with, then what hope do we have? Isn’t it a sign of the dark future us werewolves are heading towards?”

His brows knit in thought. “I don’t believe the Goddess is dead,” The firmness in his voice shocks me. “If she was, then we would have felt the change. The moon cycles would have changed and celestial wolves wouldn’t have existed. Your wolf is her creation.” He explains.

His words ignite hope in me. “Yeah, you’re right. The changes would have been drastic. But there isn’t much that has happened, except the mate bond messing up.”

“I won’t say it messed up now,” he l