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..."

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

"Tokaste," Amari saves Delilah.

call me

will take some getting used to,

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

in past lives? How do you remember

my cushion, feeling a little

known five of your lifetimes," her eyes flick away from me and

old

smiles, "Well, next month I will

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

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

time, Iok- Kas,"she pauses for a moment, "I know time is of the

I feel like you’re about to

be.If we don’t have to get you involved in our messy family drama, we don't.Granted, we monitor you from a distance, but that isn’t important right now," she

lives, when we have to reach out to you, you don’t take it very well.In others, it's not

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

that looks like our

at being compared to someone

explain that to you when it’s more

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

"And I wouldn’t be successful in my business without

as blue as the sky on a summer day as

sure Elexis had something to do with

chuckles and

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

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

is more of a curse than

shaking

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

my head in

She’s wrong.

this woman, anyway? She

doesn’t know what

had, she would have