Fake Heiress True Luna (Irina) novel Chapter 47

Chapter 47: A Different World

Irina’s POV

RING

I was in the middle of the woods, but that was all I could recognize. I had no idea where I was; all I knew was that I hadn’t been here before.

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The trees were taller, their leaves a shimmering silver, the same color as Aiden’s eyes. The air hummed. I could feel the power, but I had no idea where it came from.

There was no scent of pine or damp earth like back home; only the crisp, clean aroma of starlight and cold stone.

Confusion prickled at the edges of my mind. A moment ago, I had been with Derek and Aiden, the ground falling away from my feet as Rylan’s words echoed in my skull. Five years ago. The settlement was destroyed.

Now, there was only this silent, silver forest. It was a beautiful, haunting place, but it felt… empty.

A soft rustle came from behind me. I spun around, my heart leaping into my throat.

I had to be ready for action, but what I encountered was not a threat.

It was a familiar form, one I saw during my first shift. I would never mistake her for anyone else.

Theia…

My wolf was standing right before me, her white and cream coat looking as impeccable as ever, her yellow eyes gleaming as she looked at me.

“Is that you, Theia?” I asked carefully.

She padded forward, silent as a ghost. Her huge paws didn’t make a sound as she kept walking towards me.

Her massive head nudged my hand. It was a strange sensation to pat the head of my own wolf, who was somehow right outside my body.

“Where are we?” I asked, my voice barely a whisper in the profound stillness.

“We are here looking for the truth we desperately seek,” She replied calmly.

Again, hearing my wolf while I could see her outside my body was so weird. I’m not even sure if this is a dream, a hallucination, or who knows what else.

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“Answers?” A bitter laugh threatened to bubble up. “Rylan just gave us answers. My life, the one I thought I stole… it was a lie, too. Everyone who cared for Julie is dead. Because of me?” The question was a raw wound.

Theia shook her great head, her luminous eyes holding mine. “Rylan told us what happened, but that is not an answer. We need to know who our parents are, if they are still alive, so we can ask them what we are.”

“What would that change? We don’t have the time to walk around trying to find my parent. I can’t even prove I wasn’t the one who injured Julie because of my newly acquired resistance to wolfsbane.

The council might even see me as a traitor and tell Aiden and Derek to neutralize me. Even if I have two Alphas on my side, they can’t go against a direct order unless they want to start a

war.

“We still need to know what we are. Aren’t you curious?” She asked.

I sighed, my shoulders slumped in defeat. “I am, but I’m scared at the same time.”

That admission was heavier than I expected. It was the core of it, the truth I’d been running from. Curiosity was a luxury I couldn’t afford when every new discovery seemed to shatter the foundation of my world.

Theia’s wet nose nudged my hand again, a grounding, physical sensation in this surreal place. “Fear is the chains they used to bind you,” she said, her voice a low rumble in my mind. But you are stronger than their spells. Can’t you see how strong you are?”

Her words sent a shiver through me.

Of course, I could see it, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to hold that kind of power in my hands.

If my parents were strong enough to make me immune to the very first thing that could harm a wolf, why would they leave me?

What happened when I was born?

Why was I switched?

How did Julie know about me? What is she truly after?

A myriad of questions appeared inside my mind, but nobody would answer them.

Or so I thought…

Before I could utter another word, the silver forest around us began to waver. The trees

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blurred, their shimmering leaves dissolving into streaks of light. The crisp scent of starlight faded, replaced by the distant, muffled sound of voices.

“I think… I think I’m waking up,” I whispered, a su panic seizing me. I didn’t want to leave. Here, with Theia, I felt a sense of purpose, however terrifying. Out there, I was just a problem, a mystery, a liability.

“The dream is ending,” Theia confirmed. She took a step back, her form beginning to glow with a soft, internal light. “You’ll see.”

I wanted to ask what she meant, but before I did, the scenery changed. I could now recognize this place as the forest right outside the pack house of Shadow Pack. This was where Aiden saw me after those omegas beat me.

“What am I doing here?” I let out a frustrated groan because my memories from this place weren’t exactly pretty.

“This is the place you’ll need to return to if you decide to accept Aiden as your mate,” A warm

voice said behind me.

I should have yelped, jumped, or been startled in any way, but I could tell who it was before I

even asked.

That warmth, the fact that Theia didn’t feel threatened, was enough to know that the woman

behind me was the Moon Goddess.

I turned and met a woman with long, flowing silver hair and eyes that held the gentle light of a full moon. She was draped in simple robes that seemed woven from starlight itself, and a calm, immense power radiated from her, making the very air around her shimmer. It was a comforting power, not intimidating like the one I had felt tearing out of me earlier.

I could feel her aura hugging me; it almost felt like when the woman I thought was my mother for years hugged me.

“You,” I breathed, my legs feeling weak. Never, in all my years, would I have thought I would meet the Moon Goddess.

She smiled, a gesture that held the warmth of a thousand sunrises. “Irina. It has been a long time since I walked in the dreams of one of my children.”

“My… my Goddess,” I stammered, dropping to one knee out of pure instinct, my head bowed.

A soft laugh, like the tinkling of wind chimes, filled the clearing. “Rise, child. There is no need for that between us. Look at me.”

I forced myself to stand, my heart hammering against my ribs. Theia sat beside me, a low,

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respectful whine humming in her throat.

“Theia said we were here for answers,” I said, m

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embling. “But this… this place… It’s

where I was at my weakest.” I gestured to the familiar trees.

“Precisely,” the Goddess said, her smile softening into something more sorrowful. “It is from the place of our deepest wounds that we must often gather the strength to heal. You ask why you were left, why you were switched, why you were bound.” Her moon-bright eyes seemed to see straight through me, into the very core of my soul. “The answers are not simple, but the reason is this: you were loved.”

“Loved?” The word felt like a betrayal. “How is being abandoned an act of love?”

“To save your life,” she stated simply, her gaze unwavering. “A great evil stirred, one that hunts for a power it cannot comprehend, a power that runs in your bloodline. Your parents and those who guarded you made the ultimate sacrifice to hide you, to make you forget, so that the hunters would pass you by. The binding was not to punish you, Irina. It was to protect you until you were strong enough to protect yourself. Your mate is the one who will help you awaken those powers.”

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