Chapter 241 The Moon Goddess's Revelation

Chapter 241 The Moon Goddess's Revelation
Lily's POV

I stood on the windowsill, my bare feet gripping the cold metal ledge. Three stories down. That would be enough.

The night air whipped through my hospital gown as I stared at the pavement below. Gabriel was gone. Our son would grow up knowing his mother killed his father. This was the only way to make it right.

"I'm sorry, Gabriel," I whispered to the darkness. "I'm coming."

Suddenly, rapid footsteps echoed down the hallway. Keys jingling. Someone running.

The door behind me crashed open with such force it slammed against the wall.

"Luna! No! Stop!"

I didn't turn around. The nurse's terrified voice only confirmed what I already knew. I was making the right choice.

"I'm sorry, Gabriel. I'm coming," I said louder, my voice steady for the first time since losing him.

The nurse screamed and charged toward me, but her footsteps were still twenty feet away.

Too late.

"Finally, the pain will stop," I thought as I closed my eyes and released my grip on the windowsill.

My body pitched forward into the void.

The wind rushed past my face as I fell. For one perfect moment, there was only gravity and peace.

Then something impossible happened.

A soft blue light suddenly blazed behind my left ear. The soul flower. What the hell?

The gentle glow intensified rapidly, becoming as brilliant as starlight. I felt warmth spreading from the flower across my scalp, down my neck. The light was so bright I could see it even with my eyes closed.

Then the flower began to grow.

I opened my eyes in shock as the tiny blossom expanded beneath my ear. The petals unfurled like silk wings, growing larger and larger until they stretched wide enough to catch me.

The massive soul flower bloomed beneath my falling body like a luminescent parachute. Instead of hitting concrete, I landed gently on petals that felt softer than clouds.

"What the hell..." I breathed, staring down at the impossible sight.

I was floating three stories above the ground on a flower the size of a car. Above me, the nurse gaped from the window, her mouth hanging open. Security guards on the ground had stopped running and stood frozen, pointing up at me.

This had to be a hallucination. People didn't survive jumps on magical flowers.

Then the center of the soul flower began to shimmer.

A warm, golden light emerged from the flower's heart. Slowly, a figure took shape within the glow.

She was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Silver hair that moved like liquid moonlight. Eyes that held the wisdom of centuries. Her skin seemed to emit its own soft radiance, and she was dressed in flowing robes that shifted color like aurora.

But it was her expression that stopped my heart. Pure, unconditional love. The way a mother looks at her child.

"You cannot die, Lily," she said, her voice like wind chimes in a gentle breeze.

I stared at this ethereal being, my mind struggling to process what was happening. "Who... who are you?"

The grief crashed back over me like a tidal wave. "And why should I live? Gabriel is dead because of me."

Her face filled with infinite compassion. "Because you are my daughter."

What?

I felt like I'd been struck by lightning. "Your daughter? I don't understand."

"The soul flower is my left eye," she explained gently. "Through it, I have watched over you since you first found it in the old temple."

My hand flew to the flower behind my ear. Her eye?

"Your kindness, your resilience, your pure heart - that is why I chose you as my child." Her smile was radiant. "You have brought healing and hope everywhere you've gone."

Chosen me? Anger flared through my chest. "If I'm your daughter, why didn't you protect Gabriel?"

I struggled to my feet on the massive petals, fury replacing shock. "Why didn't you save him? Why did you let him die?"

Her expression grew sorrowful. "I am only a fragment of will, child. A consciousness left behind when the true Moon Goddess departed this realm long ago."

Tears shimmered in her ancient eyes. "I cannot interfere with mortal choices or prevent death."

Then her face brightened with hope. "But I can offer you a chance to bring him back."

What?

My heart lurched back to life. "Bring him back? Gabriel can be... resurrected?"

Hope exploded through my chest like wildfire. "Tell me how! Please, tell me what I need to do!"

She nodded solemnly. "Listen carefully, my child. This path will not be easy."

I didn't care if it was impossible. If there was even the smallest chance to save Gabriel, I'd take it.

"I have two eyes that observe this world," she began, her voice taking on the cadence of ancient knowledge. "My left eye became the soul flower - symbol of purity and healing."

I touched the flower behind my ear reverently.

"My right eye became the blood bat flower - symbol of desire and corruption."

Blood bat flower. The flowers I'd grown for years in Silver Ridge. The ones Katelyn had used to cause so much pain.

"When these two flowers crossbreed, they create a new plant," the Moon Goddess continued. "The fruit of this hybrid can resurrect the dead - but only between true mates."

My mind raced. Crossbreed them? "But how? The soul flower only grows in pure conditions. The blood bat flower thrives on negative emotions."

Then it hit me like lightning.

Those soul flowers Emma had mentioned - the ones that looked different, the ones that had stopped growing.

"The contaminated soul flowers..." I whispered, my heart pounding as the pieces suddenly clicked together. "They were the hybrids?"

Everything made perfect sense now. Those flowers that Emma had said were "contaminated" - the ones with the reddish tinge to their petals, the ones that had stopped blooming normally.

I remembered how they'd looked sickly, their pure white petals streaked with dark veins. How Emma had been confused about why they'd changed appearance but kept the same root systems.

"Oh my God," I breathed, my voice growing stronger with realization.

The Moon Goddess nodded approvingly. "You begin to understand."

Those weren't contaminated flowers at all. They were crossbred hybrids - soul flowers that had somehow been pollinated by blood bat flowers.