Their forced luna novel Chapter 81
"Don't worry," Javier patted my back. "She'll be fine."
"I know."
"No, you don't know or you wouldn't keep squeezing your fist like you're trying to break the arm of that chair."
My head jerked up. A connection I hadn't expected to ever feel again flared to life and a burst of pure sunshine radiated through it.
"Someone's happy," Javier helpfully commented.
I wanted to toss him over the barrier. "How?" I growled. It wasn't that I was against the bond coming back, but I had to worry about how it had.
Javier shrugged. "Don't really care that much. I'm just happy she is." He smirked at me. "Like you should be too."
"Zale?"
I whirled and forgot that Javier existed. My mate's skin was covered in kiss marks and her lips were still swollen. "You okay?"
She nodded. "Can I talk to you?" she let a hand slide down to her stomach. Where, if it was to believed, my child grew. I wanted to believe it with every fiber of my being but somehow it seemed a mistake to.
Gesturing to a free seat, I leaned forward. "What is it?"
"I need to talk to you about what Sabbi said."
"Sabbi?" I tilted my head. It didn't really ring any bells. Was it someone that was imprisoned with her maybe?
"The Moon Goddess. She sealed away my ability to leave bond marks, but the God of the Primes got it back."
Had I just heard her so casually admit she'd had contact with the God of my people? "Is that what you wanted to talk about?"
"Not all of it. Listen. She set all of this up, Zale. Me coming here, being with you, all of it. She only let me think I had gotten away from Rigar but I felt him after Bo's mark was taken away." She shook like a leaf but when I reached out to touch her she pushed me away. "No, not until I'm finished."
"This is hurting you. Stop."
"She told me this child will be the end of the Primes. Its destiny is to destroy everything you've worked for and built, Zale. She let me come here so it could be created."
I stared at her and then at her completely flat stomach. "Amanda, you are my Luna. The child you carry will be our Prince. We will raise him properly, you don't have anything to fear. I'm not going to hurt you or it."
She glanced up at me, shifting so she leaned the tiniest bit over. "You think we can keep it from coming true?"
"Why don't we talk to someone that I have far more faith in when it comes to reading the future?" I suggested with a grin.
"Who?" her brows furrowed.
"The Oracle," I replied with a smile.
"The one who told you about me?"
I nodded. It had been a long time since I had visited the crone but this seemed the perfect time to arrange a visit. We needed to prepare ourselves for any possibility. I would not let my child destroy our future, I would let them be the one in charge of it.
"Prime!"
Raul's voice carried to me on the breeze. I hadn't let the hellhounds officially into the pack yet so they weren't able to use any of the normal pack links. A ring of black fire exploded in front of us and when it faded away the three beasts dipped their heads to me.
Amanda smiled at them. "You guys made it. I was worried about you going after the demons."
Jessie snorted. "The demons should worry about us. There's not much they can do to hounds."
"They play dirty," Raul corrected him. "They could do quite a lot."
"Anyway," Tyler snorted at the other two and they hung their heads. "We have news."
"What is it?"
"We followed Clara's scent all the way to the demon's camp. They didn't notice us, they were too busy taking care of that one that dared to attack us. In any case, the scent didn't end at the camp. From there it went south. We followed it for awhile but there wasn't too much of a need to understand where it went."
Beside me Amanda's color faded from her. She would know what lie in that direction better than all of us combined. "No," she whispered.
I put a hand over hers. "Don't worry. We will find her. She belongs to this pack and we will get her back."
Tyler's ears twitched. "In any case. Before we came here to tell you about this, you were having another conversation about visiting an Oracle?" he snorted. "If you need the power of insight into the future, you should turn to me. I'm far more effective than that outdated option."
"You'd do that for us?" Amanda was far too excited about that.
"It would be a duty undertaken to serve my Prime and Luna. I've chosen my side and there is no going back." He tilted his head and green flames appeared in the air around him and turned into compressed balls. They stretched and thinned out until we could look through them. "What are you seeking to discover?"
"Our child," Amanda piped up. "I've been told that he's going to destroy the Primes in the future."
Tyler nodded and various shadows appeared in all of his fires. "Death, destruction," he agreed waving through a number of them. He paused at one that had our son's silhouette but this time there was a woman at his side and leaning against him. "This is the one."
"So he will?" Amanda whispered.
Tyler shook his head. "There are quite a few chances for it to happen, Luna, but there are some futures where that doesn't happen at all. If he finds his mate, the Primes will go on, and if anything happens to her, or if he can't find her... I'm afraid that he will be the last of his line."
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