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..."

say, but now she

"Tokaste," Amari saves Delilah.

me Kas," I

will take some getting used to, but

like the traditional Iokaste I have known in countless past

knew me in past lives? How do you

my

of your lifetimes," her eyes flick away from me

H-How old

"Well, next month I will be a hundred

feel my mouth drop.She doesn’t look

a hundred and sixty-two...how short are my lifetimes? That’s an average of a little over thirty

a moment, "I know time is of the essence, but actually, I think having this conversation now may actually help you heal

like you’re about to give me bad

we don't.Granted, we monitor you from a distance, but that isn’t important right now," she waves her hand at me as if the fact

we have to reach out to you, you don’t take it very well.In others, it's not so bad," her eyes

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 your

that

at being compared to someone

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

is where you get your 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 her.From

I didn’t do so great in

"And I wouldn’t be successful in my

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

Elexis had something to do

and elbows

why are you telling me about my sisters’ abilities? Aren’t we all the same? Even if we

ability is warrior strength.Cora’s only ability is primal freedom.And Katherine's only ability is unrelenting 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

me, Amari.That one is more

interrupt, shaking

you share with our sisters are just as powerful as theirs

head in disbelief and

She’s wrong.

is this woman, anyway?

know what my life

would have saved me