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Aurora’s POV

I stared into the far distance in confusion. There was a lake in front of me. I could hear the sounds of crickets. The night was cold, and I seemed to be drenched and I was… I was breathing.

Wait a second, let me rephrase that again, BREATHING?

But that was impossible. 

I died. 

The sound of desperate coughing brought my attention back to the present, and I looked down to see a young girl around six to eight years expelling water from her mouth and gasping for air.

My hands were on her chest and I titled my head in confusion as I tried to register what was happening. This… this felt oddly familiar.

The girl opened her eyes slowly and was now watching me, but I stared back like an idiot, not knowing what to say or do.

What was happening?

“Miss Ivy!” A scream jolted me awake, and I tore my eyes from the girl to see people rushing towards us.

Ivy? Where have I heard that name before?

“Oh my Goddess, Miss Ivy, are you okay? Alpha Darius was so worried!” A middle-aged woman screamed as a group of people surrounded the young girl before she was carried away.

Alpha Darius?

I kept staring at them until they slowly disappeared from my view. After a while, I struggled to get up and glanced at my body. I was wet from head to toe.

Where was I? I died, so why was I here? Could this be heaven?

I continued to walk in the direction the group of people disappeared to, dragging my feet slowly. My ears kept buzzing and everything kept spinning, but I moved on.

I had to.

I had walked until I saw the presence of people clad in suits and dresses. I looked down to glance at myself. I was also wearing a dress.

“Aurora!” a voice I both recognized and dreaded called out for me. I looked up to see him. The man my very soul now despised was running towards me, and by his side was the woman I once trusted and loved like a sister.

Kieran and Aria.

“My Goddess, are you okay?” Aria covered her mouth. Kieran removed his jacket and wrapped it around my shivering frame.

“Where were you? I told you to stay by my side. We are not in our pack right now, so it can be dang—” 

He did not get to finish his sentence because my hand had shot out and slapped him across the cheek. The sound echoed and everyone present turned to look with a shocked expression.

He moved a hand to his cheek and glanced at me with his head moved to the side and time seemed to pause.

“Aurora, w-what is wrong with you?” I clenched my hand and moved towards the owner of the voice slowly until she was backing away. 

She had killed Caleb, my son. 

She should also die.

I held her by the neck and squeezed roughly. My eyes blazed with fury and vengeance.

“A-Aurora!”

“You killed him, why did you do that, why?” I asked, my voice cracked and I could barely stay awake.

I felt people staring at me, but a particular stare sent a shiver down my spine and I loosened my grip for a mere second to look around for the owner of the eyes.

“Stop it, Aurora, and come to your scenes!” A yell from Kieran brought back my attention, and I glared at him as he moved Aria behind him, shielding her from me.

I slowly walked up to Kieran and Aria. but my steps were unstable, my vision blurred and just before I could get to them, I prayed for just a little more time for my consciousness to last. If this was a dream, one I could have once after my death, I would use it to make them pay.

“Almost there,” I whispered, but I felt my body begin to fall, my eyes closed shut and just before I could hit the ground, a pair of strong arms wrapped around my waist from behind. I closed my eyes, taking a sniff of the unfamiliar but comforting scent of the woods.

“Alpha Darius.” 

The name followed by loud gasps echoed before I finally lost consciousness

***

“If there is a Moon Goddess watching… no, if there were any gods out there, anyone that can heed to my call, then please… please give me a second chance”.

I woke up drenched in sweat and gasping for air as I looked ahead in horror. My knees drawn to my chest and my arms wrapped tightly around my shivering frame as tears streamed down my cheeks.

It took me a few minutes to calm my rapidly beating heart before I narrowed my eyes at my surroundings. Where exactly was this place?

I seemed to be in a room that wasn’t small, approximately 320 square feet, with pale blue walls. But I don’t seem to recognize this place, but it also seems like I did.

The girl from last night too felt familiar, the lake, the party, the dress. 

Wait a minute!

I looked around me and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw a phone on the cabinet. Running to it, I picked it up and swiped open, and there it was. I gasped, and the phone fell from my hand to the floor.

20/4/2024. That was today’s date. 

I had travelled back ten years before my death, before I had mated with my husband and before I quit my job as a doctor. Ten years, I was given back those years of my life.

I reached to close my mouth in shock as I stared at the now-cracked phone. I couldn’t believe it. This should definitely be a dream, or was this the afterlife?

“Aurora, we are coming in.” Kieran entered the room with Aria by his side. 

I took a deep breath as the three of us watched each other for what seemed like an eternity.

I clenched my hands by my sides and smiled bitterly, my mind replaying everything; all the pain, struggles, and tears, every scene now engraved in my memory.

Whether this was a dream or the afterlife, it didn’t matter. I had lost everything to these two, and now that I’ve been given a second chance, I will seek my revenge, no matter what.

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