Chapter 71 - The Rejected Goddess

Emma POV

After making my decision to be with Alpha Inga, I knew that I would have to get the rest of that chapter from my old life closed before I told him my decision. It was hard being away from Alpha Inga for so long, but I am glad that I did it because when I went back to him I was able to give him the whole of me rather than a version of me that was stuck in the past.

Having the past over with has helped me as a person as well, I have healed from what happened and I no longer feel like a owe anyone anything or that I have something to be ashamed of.

Alpha Inga and I have been going strong. It has only been a year but we are together, happily running the pack together. When I go off to undertake my goddess duties, I miss Alpha Inga so much that I often end up portalling back and spending the night with him before I then portal back to the pack needing aid.

The relationship between Alpha Inga and I is still in the honeymoon phase, which is nice as we are starting to make plans for our future and what we want. But we are also just enjoying each other’s company when we can, even if we are both busy and swamped in work to do.

The pack is flourishing, business ventures have gotten bigger and stronger as we now have pack and business alliances with Alpha James and the other five leaders that I worked with. This has helped to better the connection within the packs locally, which is lovely to see. After everything everyone has gone through, it is nice to see that there is some good that has come from it all.

Beta Edward and the Silver Moon Pack have rallied round us and helped me to adjust to pack life again, it is different helping them to actually being a key member in a pack. It is difficult and I still find myself desiring to be back at my nomadic life as I miss the freedom, but the pack and Bet Edward have been really supportive of me in that regard as well.

I enjoy spending time within the pack and getting to know the pack members, helping them any way I can. I have helped improve schooling and looked into how we could expand the hospital and the playground for the pups. Which have all been undertaken by local building firms and are progressing really well. Alpha Inga was happy when I suggested the improvements, I was worried as didn’t want to step on his toes or anything, but he was really happy that I wanted to be part of the pack and help it progress.

We spent that night having a very wonderful time. I still smile to myself when I think of that evening.

I have completed what Selena wanted from me- I helped the Solar Eclipse Pack and gave them a new Alpha who is doing wonderfully. Alpha James is just smashing it as Alpha, what with Mitch and Will there to help him the packs reputation is soaring, and they are just flourishing so much that it has surprised many other packs.

Selena and I are still close, we often catchup regularly either in our realms or in this realm and spend the day together. It is nice to be able to spend time with her as a friend rather than as a mentor, not that I have looked at her like that for a while. We have been more like sisters and besties for a while, and it is nice to have someone else to lean on.

My father accepted his punishment and is now on talking terms with Matthew and Shelley, once everything was explained they spoke and decided to try to work on their relationship.

When asked if I would like too as well, I thought about it but I made my decision.

“When I was killed, my old life died with me and I think it is time that I accept that. I held on to my past because I wanted what I was once, but now I see I never truly had what I thought I did. So no, I don’t want to work on our relationship.” Was my reply, to which they were sad but understood my decision.

I still keep an eye on them, just from a distance. While I love my family and I want to spend time with them, the pain and betrayal that the majority of them did is too deep for me to overlook at the moment and carry on as if nothing has happened. It might be in a few years I can, and the relationship can be rebuilt but for now I am putting myself, Alpha Inga and the Silver Moon Pack first.

Erics life is a living nightmare, and I wont lie and say that doesn’t make me happy because it does. Way more than it should. He is still an omega slave, and he looks like an empty shell of the person he once was, while it is hard to see him that way, I have to remember that he is now reaping what he sowed.

Many just want to pretend that he does not exist, after all he is the perfect example of what happens when a wolf falls off the rails and abuses their powers. Being an Alpha just makes the fall from grace all the harder for him. Numerous times he has petitioned Alpha James, other Alphas and even tried to go to the council but no one will listen.

The council is still useless, but they seem to be getting newer members recently who genuinely want to change the running of the council and make it a governing body that people can turn to.

I am still immortal, so I know my time with my mate and pack is limited but I will gladly take every second I can. I am able to alter my appearance so I will age with him, and when the time comes that I am on my own then I will still have the rest of my family and pack to help me through. But for now, my focus is on him, and spending the rest of our time together.