Not Your Mate Anymore

"How do juggle being the moon goddess and this pack's luna?" I ask, sitting with my mother and Josey in my garden, on the lush green grass. 

"Well, you will have to put one over the other and it's not like you can just not be the moon goddess." Josey says. Mother shakes her head no in disagreement. 

"Your title as luna has no place in your life anymore. You are the moon goddess. So from being the alpha female of this pack, you csme to being the alpha female of the entire wolf population. Xander will have to run the pack without you, I'm afraid." Mother says with a stern face, looking straight at me. 

"He was doing well before I got here anyway. I just can't imagine being away from him. I just got my love story and now I have to go on saving the world." I say sadly. 

Josey hugs me from behind as my mother gently squeezes my hand. 

"Many people have to figure out what they're meant to do in this world, humans have to date a few frogs before they find their prince charming but you, your destiny was already written. Yes, Ethia tried to rewrite fate but that's the thing about fate, you can delay or prolong it but you can not change it. Your life's destiny was chosen for you and I understand you were ripped of the joy of figuring life out as a teenager and as a new mom, the Joy that love brings but you forget how much you survived to just be here. Xander stuck by you every step of the way and I'm mad impressed with that young alpha! He can take his beast and let you lead? We need more alpha's like him." My mother says and I smile at the mention of my man. 

My Xander. 

"So, how do I go about this?" I ask my mother. 

"You'll have to learn our ways. You will have to be trained on how to care for your wolves and choose the right mates for them. This will take some time but it needs to be done." Mother says and sigh loudly. 

"Are you saying I'm going back to school?" I ask with my voice raised. 

Mother gives me the eye and I look down sheepishly. 

"I'm sorry Sabrina but the way of the earth is not our way. You need to learn our way and prove yourself to the one's that will serve under you." My mother says. Josey perks up, confusion clear in her eyes. 

"Isn't it her birthright to be the moon goddess? What must she prove?" Josey asks. 

"If Ethia could challenge us and rule for a time, someone else will too. Gods have their own wars too and we can be greedy as humans or the very wolves on this earth. The only difference is, we are much stronger and gifted. Most wolves have to mate with a different kind, say witches to have a chance at having hybrid children. You, Sabrina, are the true goddess but if the gods are not happy with you, that will open up a lot of chances for the people who want to take you down and believe me, they will try." My mother says. 

Just when I thought I was done fighting. Just when I thought all I had to do was sit on some chair and watch little pups be born, put two wolves together and now I had to go prove myself, fight for what is rightfully mine and sleep with one eye open. 

Just great! 

"Well that's just great." I say in a whisper but I know all too well that Josey and mother heard me. 

"I know you've been through a lot but they won't care what the little earthlings put you through. That is a different world up there and I just want  you to walk in with your guard up." Mother says pulling me in for a hug. 

Josey joins us as we hug. 

"I just want to be with Xander. Can't I choose you as the goddess while I enjoy life for a little bit with Xander here?" I ask, making Josey and mother to burst in to fits of giggles. 

Hunter and Anthony join us as the two continue laughing at me. 

"You are the only one that can fulfill that role. I know you feel it inside of you. That need to protect everyone, the need to right the Wrongs and punish the wicked. That is the goddess in you." Hunter says to me. 

I know the feeling. The way I wanted to punish Max and his pack for what they put me through and the way they've been handling things, not abiding to the laws put in place for every wolf to live by. 

I am also deeply disappointed in Max. I thought I knew him but I was wrong. He was not the mate of an alpha couple so it makes sense he would run the pack with his emotions. Father of my child or not, he had to answer to his actions. 

Is he suffering enough after everything? I'm not convinced. Now, the big question is, if Max is not the true alpha of his pack, is Adrastos the true heir? Can he take on the role of alpha and rule the way an alpha should? 

I have to look at this as the moon goddess and not as his mother. With my bloodline, he will be the most feared alpha but if I have to live up there, he has to live there too. He is a part of the first family too and it is vital he learns the ways of that world too. 

Obviously Anthony will take after Hunter, then his children but if he does not have sons in future, Anthony would have to hand over the reigns to my son and if I don't have a girl, I can only hope Anthony will so I can pass down my gifts to her. 

This was giving me a headache and to top it all off, I have to go to some godly school to learn the ways I didn't even know existed. I have to play catch up when I've missed so many years. 

"One thing you won't have to worry about are your combat skills. You're a true fighter and your strength is incredible!" Anthony says to me  and I smile. 

Finally, something I'm good at. 

"Well that's a relief!" I say and Josey giggles. 

"You still need to brush up on a few things and learn some more skills to better protect yourself." Hunter says and Anthony rolls his eyes. 

the excitement here." Anthony says

both missed out on a lot. Father kept me in hiding too so I'll be starting school with you. You're not alone in this

center too?" I ask with some excitement at the

his head

different classes to you as Hunter raised him, teaching him our ways and laws. You, unfortunately are in

found me. Ethia found me first, I could call out to you in my dreams and yet none of you sought me out! Now I must drop everything, everything I've ever known to go to some god school and learn to be a goddess. I must accept my fate and trust that you, complete strangers to me that are apparently  my family! I'm

me. Trying her hardest to keep up

to be rude but I don't know these people. I was raised by my father, a beta! Whom I have not seen since

a visit." I say and we disappear and appear in dad's

not been in this office since the time Percy was in here with his father and he told me it was a good thing I was leaving as

grabs my hand gently and I smile

I sad? Yes. I was sad because I could feel everyone's emotions on that day. My step mother's guilt, my father's anger. CJ's anger was insane, if only he knew he was stronger than Percy. Percy's sadness was

room. He wanted me as his mate not Ralyn but why go

sitting on this chair, it is just so overwhelming. If he felt so deeply for me, then why did

your feelings for Percy making a come back?" Josey asks me and I

This is probably the moon goddess in me talking." I say as I sit down on the chair Percy was seated on. Trying my hardest to try figure out what

mate?"

say not looking at her. Still engrossed in my Nancy Drew phase of figuring out why

you've ever had. You chose to be marked by Max, you also chose to be with Xander. Percy was selected for

She did not have the best intentions for

walk out of father's office, leaving the door open for when Josey snaps out of it and decides to join me on the quest to find dear old

knock, I just open the door. My father was sitting on my bed, holding a

hears the door creak and turns to face me, his eyes

were to each other now. Am I still his

the room. My father stands up to meet me halfway and pulls

worries, the doubts and fears left my system, just as they've always done when I was in my

each other, he gently takes my hand and we sit on my

was still the same as

you sooner but I was scared really. I didn't know if you still considered me as your daughter."

in for a side hug as the tears

rubbing circles on my

three children. I don't care what anyone says, I raised you and for that, you will always be my child. I will forever love you

look

them forgetting that all I've known is you and the rest of the family. All I've ever been exposed to was this world and now I must just quickly take in all that is thrown at me. I have not even dealt with the fact that Hunter is my biological father or that my mother tricked you into thinking you were her mate and dumped me here, fooling you in to thinking I was your daughter when I was not. I have a twin brother that looks everything like me but I don't know a thing about and now I must ascend up to the heavens to be with other

stick with the basics okay?" He says and I nod my head,

not coping. I raised you to stay calm and void of any emotion on your face but that does not mean you can't talk about your feelings. Little moon, when you feel upset, voice your concerns. Yes, Hunter is your father but he is still a stranger to you so draw your boundaries until you feel safe around him. The same with your brother, tell them how you feel and that they need to understand that this is all new

be taking advice from an earthling. We have our ways of doing things and you are no part of it!"

the room to see my mother, Hunter and Anthony. Anthony looking at me with sadness in his eyes.

father and Hunter, who was only a few feet

to me but I raise my hand to stop her. She freezes on the spot, clearly

in the middle of a very serious conversation Sabrina. You have duties that need your immediate

visit my father!" I say as the frustration

did not tell us where you went Sabrina." My mother says and

duties down my throat! You are all a bunch of strangers to me and now I must run around trying to prove myself to my own father? I think I've done that already. The man behind me reminds me all the time that he is proud of

open her mouth but I shake my head no.

losing his fake mate, he raised me. Take some notes, I trust my father and he trusts me. Something I don't have with any of you right now." I say and Hunter growls.

I AM!" He growls

who I am today. I am alive and strong willed, best believe I did not

to my home, his house! Show some respect! This man is not some toy to you. You all better show

us in

I say confidently.

the power of the moon and the whole room's aura changes. My

and

in hiding, as if you needed to, I was raised as a simple girl from a beta family, nothing more than that! I grew up thinking I'd just get  a mate and have babies but obviously that's not the case. Does my sanity mean nothing to you?"