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..."

pauses.She looks like she practiced what to say, but now

"Tokaste," Amari saves Delilah.

call me Kas,"

will take some getting used to, but I will

my name with a smirk, "So modern.Not like the traditional Iokaste I

knew me in past lives? How

on my cushion, feeling

lifetime, I have known five of your lifetimes," her eyes flick

H-How old are

smiles, "Well, next month I will

look like she could be older

short are my lifetimes? That’s an average of a

pauses for a moment, "I know time is of the essence, but actually, I think

about to

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

have to reach out to you, you don’t take it very well.In others,

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 incredible strength and willpower.Probably stubbornness too.But you are so

that looks like

feel a little angry at being compared to someone who

explain

"So, you now know I’m a healer, like you and I’ve heard you met Cora.She has a wild spirit, which 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 what I

do

"And I wouldn’t be

over at my best friend and smile.Her eyes are as blue as

had something to

chuckles and

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

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 well as your ability to manipulate time.Not to mention the gift

one is more of a curse than

shaking my

say is, the strengths you share with our sisters are just as powerful as theirs are.And your own mystical abilities, you are by far the most powerful goddess

in disbelief

She’s wrong.

woman, anyway? She doesn’t know

doesn’t know what my life has

she would