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

"Tokaste," Amari saves Delilah.

call me Kas,"

used to, but I will try,

smirk, "So modern.Not like

in past lives? How

lean back on my cushion,

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

H-How old are

smiles, "Well, next month I will

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

"Amari, i-if you’re almost a hundred and sixty-two...how short are my lifetimes? That’s an average of a little over thirty years per

time is of the essence, but actually, I

do I feel like you’re about

you 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 waves her hand at me as if the fact that she just

very well.In others, it's not so bad,"

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

that looks

angry at being compared to someone who kidnapped

your Lenora.I can explain that to

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

do

"And I wouldn’t be

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

sure Elexis had something to

and

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

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

is more

shaking my

as powerful as theirs are.And your own

in

She’s wrong.

this woman, anyway? She

what my life

had, she would have