“Only a Goddess can create another Goddess or a God. When I died, Celeste brought me back. My powers grew and strengthened while hers got weaker. Eventually, she told me what she did, and told me that when my time came. I was told that I would become the next Moon Goddess when I die. She trusted me to make the right decisions, guide her Lycans, and choose their mates while trying to break their curse. She tempted fate to bring me back, and I did the same with you.” She whispers.
“So I am going to die?” I tell her, horrified. What about my mates, my kids?
“No, not now. Hopefully, not for a long time. You have a normal lifespan ahead of you, Kat. But when you do, you will take my place, and the fates will be yours to guide, yours to alter. You are a living deity, and when you die, you will become the Moon Goddess your people pray to. You’ll take my place. Being a Gemini wolf means when your mate’s time is up, they’ll also join you in the Moon Goddess realm, so you won’t be alone as I was. As Celeste was.”
“Why?” I can feel the tears sting my eyes.
“Over the centuries, I became lonely. The repetitiveness and loneliness of being the Moon Goddess became tiring. Then you were born, and I watched you grow, I watched you fight for what was right, watched you get everything I dreamed for you and more, and you gave it away for everyone else, just like I did for my people. I saw the Goddess you could be. The Goddess I knew you would become, so I made you one, but you are also a Gemini wolf, and I wasn’t expecting it would take a toll on me the way it did,” she says, flicking her hair over her shoulder. “It is happening faster. Celeste had time to train me and help me. I’m afraid we won’t have that sort of time to prepare you, Kat.”
“Celeste stayed a Goddess until my death, but the piece I gave to you to bring you back was bigger than I expected because I brought your children back with it. I tempted fate, and I thought I would be the same, but I am deteriorating faster than expected. I knew it would happen. I just thought I had more time, but don’t worry, Katya, I still have a little time left, so what do you need help with?” She asks.
I am shocked by her words and also horrified. I don’t want to be a Moon Goddess, but I don’t want to be Queen either. If this is what Seline gives me, I will make her proud. I owe her that much.
“You will not let me question you more about this right now, will you?”
Seline chuckles and shakes her head. “No, I am not sure how long before I am pulled back to my realm, so tell me what you need right now.”
Shaking my head, I exhale. Another thing to add to my list of stressors is a dying Goddess and Goddess handover. “Fine, first, my children have been acting strange,” I tell her.
“Yes, I have been watching. Unfortunately, with my dwindling power, I can’t see their fates or even choose their future mates anymore. I can control the fates of everyone else but not my own, and since I gave you a piece of myself that now extends to you and your children. I can’t help with any future knowledge with them, only what I saw when I brought you back, but I have been observing, and I have enough knowledge now that I can give you some insight.”
“Like what, because honestly, I am at a loss, especially with Marabella,” I admit to her.
“Yes, when I brought you back, I thought both children would be Gemini wolves. Instead, it split the Gemini between them, one light, one dark. Marabella will have to learn to control it, but I fear her mate will be darker than her when she becomes older. Power like hers will seek darkness. You would have noticed with Dominic how his power couldn’t touch yours because you are also tainted with dark magic. Instead, it feeds your power. It’s also why when the madness that comes with being a Gemini affects you, you seek your children. Their power acts like a radar calling to your power. I also noticed Marabella and Eziah have been mind-linking each other, showing me how strong they will be one day,” she tells me with a laugh.
“So she was mind-linking?” I thought that looked suspicious, but even while I watched my daughter’s eyes, I still didn’t think it was possible.
“Yes, they are twins. They communicate even if it is only through pictures for now. I doubt any distance could ever stop their minds from linking. Their souls are entwined, linking them together,” she explains, and it finally makes sense. Not only the Gemini is split between them, but they also are twins and share power.
“Although I fear with Marabella, the darkness will taint her like Dominic if she doesn’t have a buffer to help keep her grounded.”
“What do you mean?” I ask.
“Both of your children are like you. Neither has a wolf, but I am willing to force fate one last time for both of them. I wasn’t expecting their powers to split. I simply thought they would contain both, but when I realized they didn’t, I looked into ways to help them. And I can help them, but it may speed the process of my death up.”
“Then you can’t. I won’t let you.” I shake my head. I dread the moment I might lose her.
“I am already dying, Kat, Marabella’s fate I can’t tamper with without huge consequences, but I can add to her future. I can’t change it, but I can add to it. Maybe then she will find happiness in the end.” Her fingers wrap around my hand and grip it, as if she holds onto her lifeline.
“What do you mean?” I ask, worried about my daughter.
“When Marabella was born, I got glimpses, and her future was dark, darker than I expected. She will suffer, Kat. And I want to help. Skeletons in the closet, Kat, hers is not one I can die with on my conscience, so you will let me do this for the twins. You will let me bless them, at least try to make up for cursing them.”
“What did you see?” I ask her.
“I saw her kill herself. And I refuse for that to be her future. Unfortunately, I can only do so much with my dwindling power. Like Celeste created the Lycans, I created werewolves to stop the eradication completely by allowing human mates, and that is how werewolves exist now. It also made you all more humane. Lycans were savage beasts. Unfortunately, my power is too weak to create new vessels, so I have had to recycle some old souls, but luckily you also had some volunteers.”
“Some volunteers?” I ask.
“Yes, give me your hands, Kat, I will take you to meet them.” Seline says, and I place mine in hers.