Chapter 194
ABAY POV
“Tihan is your destined mate?
Each vyllable seemed to burn itself into my soul, white hat and undeniable as the ethereal landscape around us began to dissolve into swirling mist.
The
scene materialized before me with breathtaking clarity, and I gasped audibly, my hand flying to my mouth. This wasn’t the nightmare I’d constructed in my mind over countless sleepless nights. There was no violence, no violation, no horror.
Instead, I watched as Ethan’s hands those same powerful hails Ed couse to know so well–traced the contours of my face with exquisite tenderness, His touch was reverent, almost worshipful, his fingertips barely grazing my skin as if I were made of the most delicate porcelain. Those mesmerizing green–gold eves that still haunted my dreams were writlowing with an emotion I couldn’t possibly have mistaken for anything but love. My past self leaned into his touch, eyes fluttering closed with a trust so complete it made my chest ache to seitness it.
“It was you,” I whispered, the words escaping on a broken sob as realization crashed through me like a tidal wave. My legs trembled beneath me, threatening to buckle as six years of misplaced shame and fear crumbled into dast. “It’s always been yIL”
My fingers unconsciously rose to touch my own check, trying to recreate the ghost of that could have forgotten something so profound?
ess, and I felt hot tears spilling unchecked down my face. How
The air around me shimmered like sunlight fracturing across the surface of a disturbed pond, and the intimate scene dissolved, I found myself once again standing before the Moon Goddess, her impossible form perfectly bisected–one half radiant silver that hurt to look upon directly, the other a darkness so complete it seemed to abscab all light around it. Cassandra pressed her warns body firmly against my legs, as if sensing I might collapse without her support.
from my thoug
“Why?” The question tone
throat, ragged and raw with six years of accumulated grief. Something primal and wounded rose within me, a rage so pure it made my vision blur crimson at the edges. My fist slammed down onto the mercury table with such force that pain shot up my arm, but I welcomed it, needed it to anchor me to this moment. Ripples distorted our reflections as the impact traveled across the liquid surface.
“Why couldn’t I sense him?” I demanded, my voice rising with each question, cracking under the strain of emotions too vast to contain. “Why couldn’t remember? Why didn’t Ethan recognize me when we met again at the training camp?
My chest heaved with labored breaths as tears streamed hot done my cheeks, leaving scaling trails that felt like they might permanently mark my skin. “Do you understand what you’ve done?” I choked out, jabbing my finger accusingly toward the impassive deity. I’ve spent every waking moment believing I was violated by a stranger! I’ve canied that shame like a stone in my chest, crushing me a little more each day!”
I gestured wildly, my entire body trembling with the force of my outrage. “Lucas–my beautiful boy—has grown up without his father! Without knowing his nightful Alpha hentage! The injustice of it all threatened to swallow me whole. “You stole six years from us! Six precious, irreplaceable years we can never
My words echoed across the impossible landscape, hanging in the air like physical things before slowly dissipating into nothingness. The silence that followed felt deafening.
“7 protected you,” Cassandra’s voice flowed through my mind like cool water, her mental touch skehow both steadying and sorrowful. The familiar weight of her consciousness pressing against mine nearly brought me to my knees with longing for what we’d once shared.
She lifted her magnificent heud, those amber eyes that had once been my own meeting my gaze with unflinching honesty. The poison they gave you would have destroyed us both, the one. I had no choice but to separate myself, to absorb the taxi to my essence and retreat to heal in isolation. Her ears flattened slightly against her head, a gesture of tegnet I recognized from our shared past. Without completing the mating ritual with your true munte, I ensured we would survive when otherwise we would have perished.“
Chapter Comments
in this really how it ends? how long before more chapters?
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