Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

Chapter 64

I pull away from her but find myself still holding her hand as I turn toward my friends.I don’t want to let go.

This warm, comforting feeling can last forever as far as I'm concerned.

"Reggie, I’m going to try.Anything for Ashley.I just need to speak with these ladies first.I want to make sure that I won't do anything that will hurt her or your baby, okay?"

Reggie exhales a ragged breath and pulls me into a tight hug, "Thank you, Luna.Thank you."

I hear Bronx clear his throat behind us, "Gamma.Do you mind?"

Reggie looks up and quickly lets me go, "Oh, uh, sorry Alpha."

"Kas, we will be over in the weight room.Just let us know when you're ready,"

Bronx says with a loving look.

I smile as he brushes his fingers against my chin.I lean against his rough palm, holding it against my face with my hands.

Even though I didn’t know I was missing for two days, I hadn’t seen Bronx for five days before that.I miss him.I move my nose into his hand taking a deep breath of his dark chocolate and coffee scent.

He bends down and gives me a deep kiss, before he claps Reggie on the back and heads down the hallway.

I watch them head into the weight room.

Beyond that, there are several guards standing at attention in the hallway.

What’s that about? "Ladies, after you,"

I hold the door open to the meditation room to let the three powerful women I’m standing with go in first.

Once we are all settled, Lady Camille takes charge of the conversation, "Luna Iokaste, I have been alive for a very long time and in all my years, I have never heard of a healer from any species able to change someone's blood.Pull out poisons or add healing energy, of course, but never change it.The thing is, well, you’re more special than we could have ever imagined."

I look at her confused, "Special?"

"Kas, when we allowed you to come to the Coven, we just knew you were a goddess.We knew you were something that we had never seen before and that you were special,"

Delilah chimes in now, "What we didn’t know is that we should have never given you a glimpse into your past because, well..."

looks like she practiced what to say, but now she

"Tokaste," Amari saves Delilah.

call me Kas,"

getting used to, but I

a smirk, "So modern.Not like the traditional Iokaste

me in past lives? How

my

of your lifetimes,"

old are

I will be a hundred

my mouth drop.She doesn’t look like she

hundred and sixty-two...how short

Kas,"she pauses for a moment, "I know time is of the essence, but actually, I think having this conversation now may

about to give me bad news?"

distance, but that isn’t important right now," she waves her hand at me as if the fact that she just told me 1 am constantly being spied

you don’t take it very well.In others, it's not

hand again, letting her ambient energy soothe me, "Kas, you are now and always have been Mother’s warrior child.So is our sister Tessa.That’s how you and Lex get

one that looks like

a little angry at being

Lenora.I can explain that to you when it’s

will to live against the odds and your courageousness.Our sister Katherine, you haven’t met her yet.She is the oldest.She’s our Luna.Knowledge is second nature to

didn’t do so great

confess, "And I wouldn’t be successful in

friend and smile.Her eyes are as blue as the sky on a summer day as she smiles in

something to do with

chuckles and elbows

all the same? Even if

knowledge," she looks to Lady Camille, then back to me, "You have all of those abilities and more.The ability to harness your power to defend yourself through burning people.As

is more of a curse than

interrupt, shaking my

as

in

She’s wrong.

is this woman, anyway?

doesn’t know what my life has

she would have saved