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..."

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

"Tokaste," Amari saves Delilah.

call me Kas,"

used

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

in past lives? How do you

on my cushion, feeling a little

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

old are you,

I will

look

i-if you’re almost a hundred and sixty-two...how short are my lifetimes? That’s

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

feel like you’re about to give me

you from a distance, but that isn’t

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 roll a little as she thinks to

takes my 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 your incredible strength and willpower.Probably stubbornness too.But you are so much more than

Is she the one that looks like

little angry at being compared to someone

look like your Lenora.I can explain that to

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

didn’t do

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

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

something

chuckles and elbows

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

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 burning people.As well as your ability to manipulate time.Not to

one is more

interrupt, shaking my

powerful as theirs are.And your own mystical abilities, you are

shake my head in

She’s wrong.

is this woman, anyway?

doesn’t know what my

had, she would