My eyes feel like they are glued shut I can not get them to open. I lay there thinking about my mate, my life and how I treated them poorly and how my long-lost brother is giving up as well. How the secrets of the past seem to have led to this, I do not understand how they could keep these secrets from us all. Suddenly I felt a wave of power over me. It was strong and pulling at me, I felt as I was being dragged into the unknown.
I was finally able to open my eyes and I was no longer in a cell, but I was on a small island of land surrounded by clear blue water. The wind was blowing causing the salty water smell to fill my nostrils. I saw a figure approaching me from the water, as the figure grew closer, I noticed their face and felt my heart stop at who was here right now approaching me.
“Mom is that really you?” she smiled as she closed in the distance. “Hello, my sweet girl, how you have grown.” Her voice was so sweet and full of emotion. “I know you have so many questions and are full of resentment due to your father and myself, and the choices we have made.” I felt the worry in her tone as she hugged me. “Yes, mother I do. Why? Why did you let them take Malcolm? Why did you hide it? Why did you leave us?” I felt all the emotion I was holding in just pour out at that very moment. “Oh, my sweet child, there is so much I wish I could tell you, but fate will not allow me to detour you from your destiny. We did what we did out of love, we knew if we had fought him over Malcolm, he would kill Malcolm and EJ. He would have killed us as well and there would never of been you. We are not proud of this, but there are things about us that we never told anyone. We did everything out of love and protecting our children was the most important.” Her eyes were filled with tears and her voice shaky, but I knew from her pain she was telling the truth.
I held her for as long as I could it has been so long since I smelled her rose scent and felt the motherly warmth of her touch. “Darling, I must go now.” I felt her pull out of our embrace. “I know it is hard, I know the pain you are feeling but you can do this, just know wherever you go wherever you are I will always be right here.” She pointed at my heart and kissed my cheek. She turned as I was silent, mind racing and headed back to the water where in the distance she began to disappear.
I fell to my knees crying, feeling all the pain heavy on my heart when I felt another presence near me. When I looked up I seen a woman and the power flowing off her was strongest I have ever felt. She was stunning, she was tall, curvy yet slender. Her dark blue dress flowed around her light skinned body. She had long snow-white hair, flowing down to her hips in loose wavy curls. Her eyes were a shining bright blue. On the top of her head was a small crown with an upside-down crescent moon with a small full moon in the center.
“Hello my child.” Her words validated my thoughts of who she was. “Goddess Selene.” She smiled at my statement. “I am glad the introduction part is not needed. We have much to discuss it is time for you to know who you are.” My brows knitted in confusion, I had no clue what she meant by her statement, and I was at a loss of words as it was.
“This is going to be confusing but let me explain. Many eons ago I to have a mate fate destined me with. I to thought fate was cruel for he was the God of the sun. we could never be together not for eternity. We had a few hours throughout the days where both the sun and the moon could both exist at the same time in the same place, then during an eclipse day, we could be together. It was cruel but as time went on I looked forward to those days I got to spend with him. We both had enemies that looked to hurt us by hurting the other, but we still prevailed. Then after a night of an eclipse where we spent all day together fated us to something far greater. I found out I was pregnant and with the enemies both of us had we knew neither of us could raise this child due to the harm that could reach the baby. We knew what we had to do.” She clutched her chest feeling the pain of losing a child but continued with her story which had me well intrigued.
“I watched over my creations and knew of a family who had been through the pain of losing a child to an enemy. I to brought them here to speak to them of my situation. They understood and agreed that when my child was born, they would raise my child as their own and keep this a secret for the child’s life depended on it.” She paused in the story watching me very closely as if I knew where this was going. “I see there is more needed to the story. When my daughter was born on the night of an eclipse, my mate and I met the chosen parents that night and said our final goodbyes. Before we left, we talked to the parents and asked to be able to name the child and bestow two gifts from each of us. They agreed and first her father, the sun God bestowed his daughter with some of his powers to help her throughout her life and kissed her forehead. I bestowed some of my powers to her as well. I also bestowed her with a protector wolf, not like others. In the end, we named the wolf Akiva, and our only daughter Micaiah.”
When she was finished it sunk in fast and clear. My mind was more confused than before and so was Akiva we were lost. “You are my daughter Micaiah, by blood but that does not change that they raised you and are your parents. I know this is a lot to take in, but I must go for now this information should also provide you answers for your situation now and clear things up but fight Micaiah, do not break remember who you are.”
With that, she disappeared into the water and I was jolted back into my reality where I jumped out of the coma, I was in from events previous. How could anyone think clearly after the information given? I laid there awake yet still in much pain, but I had so much on my mind my body was numb. I needed to think to figure this out and I needed to do it quick.