Called by the Goddess

Chapter 12: Surprise!

The next day I woke up later than usual, Granny forbade me to set my alarm.

“You’ve had quite the experience today, you need your rest!” she had insisted. “Wake up when your body wants you to wake up, not a moment sooner. Let Angelica cook the breakfast by herself for once, she likes having the kitchen all to herself now and then”

So when I finally opened my eyes, it felt like luxury I hardly ever had experienced in my life. Sleeping in was not something ‘us omegas’ were accustomed to. So I turned around once more, enjoying the feeling of not having to do anything yet.

Normally I looked forward to my morning run, once I managed to wake myself up. I loved being up bright and early, but for now, sleeping in felt like a gift.

I thought back on yesterday. What a strange, scary, but also wonderful experience. She closed her eyes and tried to remember everything once more.

I had to give an extensive report to Granny yesterday evening, and she had advised me to think back on her experience with the Goddess the next morning. Maybe she would remember more, some hidden message that would resurface or something.

Granny had explained to her that when you get in a trance state, which was what had happened to her, time did not follow the normal rules anymore.

Sometimes it felt like you had been gone for hours, but in reality only a few minutes would have passed by, and sometimes, like yesterday with me, it was the other way around.

“Try to feel in your system what happened,” Granny had advised her. So I thought to give it a try. I lied back and closed my eyes. I reached out to the feelings I felt in my body and tried to connect them somehow to the feelings I had experienced yesterday. The instant connection I had felt with the Goddess stone.

Almost immediately I felt lighter, like my body expanded, and I felt like energy was flowing all around me. Not as intense as yesterday, thank Goddess. This felt kind of comforting and nice. Like energy was flowing to me, soothing my worries and the tightness I had felt in her muscles from sitting for such a long time against a cold stone in one position seemed to melt away as well.

“This is me healing you” I heard the voice of the Moon Goddess in her head. This time I was not startled by the fact that I heard the Goddess speak to me. It felt very natural and comforting even.

“Yesterday was a bit too much, I am sorry, I don’t always realise that your physical body has its limits, even though you are a werewolf and a special one at that. Know that you can always ask me for healing, for yourself or your loved ones who need it!”

“Thank you, this feels nice”, I replied. And as I started to fire up to ask all of the questions I had for the Moon Goddess, like: ‘why on earth did you choose me?” somehow, all the questions I had for the Moon Goddess seemed to disappear.

“Your questions can wait, work on connecting with me and you can ask me anything you want. Right now I believe it is time for you to get up and get to breakfast!” I felt the Goddess retract herself, but I also could feel that she was still present in the background somewhere, which felt kind of reassuring.

I looked at my phone to see what time it was. Oh wow, 7 a.m. already. You would have thought I had slept enough, yesterday all afternoon and she went to bed early. But hey, I did not complain. Breakfast should be served right about now. What a luxury!

I took a quick shower, got dressed and opened her door to head downstairs. A familiar scent hit her nose as she walked towards the stairs. French toast! I hadn’t eaten that since she had left the pack. Her mum loved French toast and nobody could make it better than she, so she hadn’t tried. It would have made her homesick. Angelica had never made any either. Weird.

As I got downstairs and another familiar scent hit her nose. No… that couldn’t be… she cannot be here, can she?

But she really was! I let out a scream of pure joy and yelled “Mum!!”, while running into the kitchen and almost knocking my mother over because I hugged her so hard. “What.. how… why… when... “ I stuttered.

“Calm down, Katie love, no need to crush me”, mum said amused. But I saw that she secretly wiped away a tear that had left her eye. My eyes felt kind of watery too. I sniffed and tried again: “What are you doing here? And is it safe for you to be here? Why didn’t anybody tell me?”

Mum put both her hands lovingly on my cheeks, looked me in the eyes and smiled. “First let me look at you, you've grown since you left, haven’t you?”

Hmmm, now she mentioned it, I did notice that my jeans had become just a little short..

I smiled. I missed our mother daughter moments together. “It is so good to see you, but how? And why? Ooooh… now I get why the Goddess did not want to answer more of my questions, but told me it was time for breakfast… she must have known you are here. Well, duh, she is the Goddess after all”

I know, I still was rambling away, I could not help it, it is my go to state when things get overwhelming.

I saw mum and Granny exchange an amused look between the two of them. Great. The two of them laughing at me together. And still not answering my questions I might add.

“Before you burst because we don’t answer your questions, I am here regularly, when the pantry needs restocking. You know how I have come to an agreement with the alpha that this is something the head chef should do. He wants the best quality of food, then I need to fetch the best quality of produce myself.

What he does not know and almost nobody knows, is that I come here, hand over my shopping list to Angelica and meet with the order, so we can exchange information without anybody missing me. Angelica has a great eye for the best produce, I’ve trained her myself.

The plan was that I would go shopping in two weeks, but the alpha insisted on a festive barbecue for all of the pack tomorrow, since Eric is coming home from college for the weekend. You know he just started his junior year and hardly ever comes to visit. So here I am, finding the best piece of meat, because nothing less is good enough for our alpha and his precious heir.” she finished, rolling her eyes. “The Goddess must have felt you needed me and made this happen” she added as an afterthought.

“Either way, I am so happy to see you!” I said.

Suddenly I saw that Maya was standing in the doorway. She usually had breakfast with us. She had a weird look on her face, like she had seen a ghost.

“Hey Maya, when did you get in? Are you ok? And how cool is it that my mum is here?” I asked her. She startled for a bit and then smiled at me. “Yeah, I am fine, and very cool”, she smiled. Although her smile looked a bit forced to me...