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..."

like she practiced what to say, but now she doesn’t feel like it suffices to say

"Tokaste," Amari saves Delilah.

me Kas,"

will take some getting used to, but I will

emphasises my name with a smirk, "So modern.Not like the traditional Iokaste I have known in countless

in past lives? How

my cushion, feeling

in this lifetime, I have known five of your lifetimes," her eyes flick away from me and

H-How old are

next month I will be

feel my mouth drop.She doesn’t look like she could be older

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

conversation for another time, Iok- Kas,"she pauses for a moment, "I know time is of the essence, but actually, I think

you’re about to give me bad

involved in our messy family drama, 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

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

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 much more than

she the one that looks

feel a little angry at being compared to

explain that to you when it’s more

"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

do so great

wouldn’t be successful in my

at my best friend and smile.Her eyes are as blue as the sky on

had something to

and elbows

Aren’t we all the same? Even if we are

same.My only ability is healing.Tessa’s only 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 through

trust me, Amari.That one is more of

interrupt, shaking my

powerful as theirs are.And your own mystical abilities, you are by far the most powerful goddess

head in disbelief and

She’s wrong.

this woman, anyway? She doesn’t

know what my life has

had, she would have