"You did what?" I ask, my body starting to vibrate in anger. Xena was growling at Dalia now, fully awake and in no way were we going to allow Damian to be sacrificed.
"Think Jeannie! Your role in this life is far greater than just a love story. You are required to help many and sometimes that will take a lot from you. Did you honestly think that in the pursuit of your full potential there would not be any casualties?" Dalia asks, with zero emotion on her face but her voice held enough annoyance at my failure to understand or allow the sacrifice to be.
"I will not allow it." I say, trying to find the energy to connect with my magic and release Damian from whatever magic that holds him but failing.
"If it is magic that is keeping him, then it is magic that will release him."I say and Dalia chuckles.
"You may speak the old language but you will not succeed here. A deal has been made already and by the looks of
The man stands up and walks up to me. He holds out his hand and I reach out my hand to shake his."My name is Reginald." He says to me and I pause mid hand shake to get a better look at him. Reginald was my great grandfather's name but he died before I was even born. He looks familiar because he looks just like the man in the many photographs at home.How could that be?"Impossible." I say and he breaks out in laughter, with his head rolling back."Oh you must think I mean The alpha Reginald but no, I am no alpha." Reginald says to me."Then why do you look like him? Why do you look like the man in the pictures back home??" I ask."Well, I look like him because I was born from one of his son's and boy did he have many! They named me after him, even though your father was his first born... born from his mate, making him future alpha. I chose a different path anyway..." He says to me, looking around the room.I copy his movements, follw
There are consequences to actions taken, whether it be against someone or just normally so as one embarks on the journey called life. We are given the freedom to make choices on our own, those choices lead us to where we are today.Dalia has betrayed the little trust I had in her. I mean sure, I did not completely trust her and I kind of sensed her from the beginning but my distrust for her was never because I thought she would kill people to get her way. I thought she would use me in some way and then run off, leaving me behind to deal with the consequences alone.Only to be told that I am not her first rodeo. In fact, there are plenty here under the sacrificial land, who claim to have fallen victim to Dalia's cimes. Reginald took me in to this room, a very big room with no windows and just one door, the one we walked through just now. In this room, sits about twenty individuals, staring at me blankly.Reginald introduces me as the q
"We have retrieved the boy. He is in room 71." An old man with long white hair says to Reggie, nodding his head as soon as Reggie acknowledges him with a nod as well before leaving the room, we were in.My immediate thought was Damian, him being young still. I look at Reggie but he is focused on the three trees in front of us, as if they were talking to him somehow. Hope was standing right next to me, looking in curiously like me. Reginald spends the next 5 minutes staring quietly between the three tree barks, his stance of someone busy with mind link.
As my mate, Damian faces a lot of challenges. For starters, he has to go against everything he was taught to believe just to love me and be with me. Damian had to flee, in parting, he abdicated his throne... who knows if he will get to become alpha when he returns? With or without me.That is why I have left him to rest so I can talk to Reginald about helping me heal the hate in his heart for our kind. The fact that we are mated, just the goddess deeming us compatible, where life could possibly argue that we aren't, says a lot and I am willing to fight as long as he is. He has an even bigger fight, the coming war aside, an internal battle is one
"What the fuck?" I say out loud, making the girls giggle in front of me. I look at them, all at the same time and individually, just to let it all sink in... to make sure I was not going insane.I mean, maybe I am and this tree gives some form of a high when you touch it. That's it! I am probably hallucinating, that would make sense and Reginald tried to warn me but I would not listen and also that his warning came a bit too late."We can assure you; you are not going crazy." One girl tells me, voice sounding eerily like my own. That freaks me out even more and I feel myself begin to actually lose it. I feel my head spin, the oxygen leaving the b
A brand-new day.A day full of clarity, determination and drive. I am a new girl, the Jeannie I was a few minutes ago is long gone. That was the name of a girl who was lost in the dark, only driven by pain and consumed with love. Xena is a woman in search of justice and defeating the evil that has taken over her people, even those born without magic.They are lost and have been lied to, raised to grow up with so much hate for one another. A child, stripped of all innocence by telling them who
"Xena? Isn't that your wolf's name?" Damian asks me and I nod my head yes."That is correct but my wolf and I are one, back then, your wolf would give you the name you are to go by. I see things have changed now." I say back to him, confusing him once again."I am Xena, reborn and back to fix what has been broken. The girl you have known as Jeannie is no more. I can feel the mate bond, I can feel the love but I need you to know that I came back from the past to save my people. The people you want to kill, no thanks to your upbringing." I speak.&n
"What do you mean you lost her? I thought, we all thought you had her fooled? For goddess's sake woman, you hurt yourself to gain sympathy from her, asking us look like the bad guys, of which we are considering what we are about to do to her people but what the hell!?" A man's voice can be heard screaming over the phone in Dalia's hand.She drops the phone, watching me smirk- that being my chosen reaction. I could have gone with the growl, predator look or just a smile but I need her to know that I am on to her, I have been on to her, way before she was born and she has also just been caught red handed."You seem busy... should I come back later?" I as