His Dark Obsession

His Fated Obsession (Book 2) Chapter 37. The Tree of Bonds

ZEDKIEL.

“My Goddess… I don’t think that’s possible.”

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Soren, one of the high servants, says to Evangeline.

It’s the following day, and we have spent the day learning everything we need to.

There is a lot here that needs doing, neglected for centuries. I’m shocked they’re even functioning without their leader.

Without their goddess, the people themselves are looked down upon as outcasts.

We are now in the palace garden, standing beneath the celestial tree of Bonds.

Its trunk and branches are silvery grey, shimmering under the light and upon the trunk is the same symbol that covers Evangeline’s back, engraved into the tree, shimmering a deep silvery black.

The leaves of the trees are a stunning mix of all shades of blues, each leaf is lighter at the centre with a deeper blue hue around the edges and upon these leaves are written the name of every couple that is tied together by the mate bond in a shimmering silver.

I can see the shimmering words, but they are in a language that I cannot read.

When a leaf falls from this tree, it means that one of the werewolves has passed away before meeting their fated mate. Also, when a leaf burns, it means the bond has been broken.

“I can’t remain here. There has to be a way, regardless of me taking this mantle, that I can walk the earth again.” Evangeline says, her voice strong and gentle, yet I can feel her worry through the bond.

With our marking completed, we are closer than ever. I glance at her. She looks breathtaking, her shimmering silver gown is adorned with gems and crystals along the shoulders and breasts, and her long hair is braided from the top and left open, cascading down her back and reaching her knees.

A crown adorns her head, and her hands and arms are covered with jewellery.

That’s something else I noticed. Despite the sun rising in the skies, her hair remains white. I wonder if it is because the true foundation of the Palace of Moonlight sits upon the moon?

Perhaps…

This conversation is something we ourselves have almost argued over… she promised to never leave me and yet she feels the burden of fixing things here, too. If that means I need to return here with her, then I will.

I walk around the tree wondering if my name is here. Every couple ever mated is part of this tree, if that bond survives anyway.

“We will think of a way. Perhaps we need something to hold your power for when you return to earth, because in your full celestial state, you cannot walk the earth.” Another high servant adds. “Yes… because even Selene went to earth to be with Raziel.”

Evangeline muses.

different, almost like a melodic hum that resonates within

to her subjects, sometimes I feel like I don’t recognise her, but then she looks at me and all those doubts and

there, just grown and thrived into a goddess

watched, she turns her attention to me and blushes faintly, and I know it’s because of everything we did last

shyly, making me smirk as I

will look for a way,

Goddess walks towards me. The shimmering white

beautiful, isn’t it?” She says,

I reply, gripping her waist and pulling her close, before claiming those plush

my mind, and I throb against her. Her hands that rest on my bare chest now run up my shoulders, wrapping around my neck tightly as she kisses me harder. ‘Oh,

you too,

a false picture, but the truth is, we had to find our own

her, and I inhale her scent, one that has become

and extends her hand to me. The top layer of her dress

and the moon help form those bonds, although it is the goddess’s duty to create them, she can only guide the process… Bonds are unique, and sometimes

do you think our names

and the branches rustle and move until a branch from far up lowers itself

that has two identical leaves coming off the tiny branch. One glowing brightly, and one… burnt and shrivelled and

didn’t need to know how to read the names to

is on both.” She

I figured.” I say

the charred leaf as she turns her head to me, her eyes glistening

her Zedkiel, I have no qualm.” Her voice

I want her crazy in love with me, and to only want me for herself? Yet here she is telling me she’s fine

say, “You are

tilts her head, waiting for me to

you both equally. I love you f*uc*king crazily. If we were ever in a room together, it would be you I’d want by my side.” I

be different.” She whispers, her smooth creamy

me? You are simply going to allow another woman to be with me, and not be

course, I would, but you hold enough love for us both.”

She needs to be blessed with another mate, and I want you to do that.” I say, voicing the thought that has niggled at my mind from the very first time

as

love her as I love you.” I say, and I mean it. “She doesn’t deserve love out of pity, or to be second best, she deserves someone to

what I’ve just said. “We would need to ask her. I don’t want

out of malice.” I say, and