The return of the Luna

Some bridges can't be crossed...

In that moment, a mix of emotions flitted across his face. Hurt, shock, and confusion like a freight train had just hit him. He stepped closer to me slowly, his hands caressing my cheeks wiping the tears I hadn't realised was falling freely. "Please don't cry, Isana," he hushed in a soft voice, and my eyes widened. How did he know my name? I heard Senna chuckle in my mind. I think she was speaking with his inner wolf and blocking me out. Rude. At that thought, she roared with laughter in my mind. I was spot on, and she thought that was hilarious.

None of this was making any sense to me. How could I have a second chance, mate, when my first mate was still alive? Why was Senna keeping me out of the bond with my mates wolf, and what on earth is my mates name? At that moment, I had more questions than answers, but at least one of my answers could be given right here and now. Before I could slow myself and ask calmly, I blurted out, "What on earth is your name?"

He chuckled and smirked at me cheekily. "Didn't Senna tell you?" I huffed and crossed my arms as I scowled at him."Senna is petty she's having too much fun just laughing at blocking me out."

A look of concern flitted across his face as his eyes clouded over, and he suddenly dropped to the floor. In a panic, I rushed down to my knees, checking him, but his breathing was fine, and he appeared okay, but what on earth was happening. My body began to feel weak, and my vision blurred as a searing pain flooded my mind.

Two wolves were running in a meadow, flooded with light, and in that moment, I recognised Senna with her auburn fur and golden eyes. But the wolf she was playing with I didn't recognise his fur was jet black and his eyes silver. Nothing like my previous alpha mate that looked more like a mongrel with his roughed up smattering of black and grey hair and black eyes.

As I was taking in my surroundings, I realised I was in the spirit meadow where the mate bond is strong, but as I looked further around me instead of the one bridge there was before, there were two. One elegant and strong. The other broken and weak filled with turmoil and darkness. The moon goddess was showing me just how broken my first mate bond was. I knew deep down I no longer loved my first mate. I knew our bond was broken, but seeing it was something entirely different.

As I walked towards the bridges, the ground began to shake, and when I should have felt fear in that moment, I felt nothing but peace. Then I heard her soft motherly voice, "Hello Isana, my daughter."

I turned to see the mother to all wolves, and my voice caught in my throat as I took in her full beauty. Her skin was pale, almost ethereal, and her eyes were luminous blue. But her hair was the night itself. Black but not absent of colour, it was as though the galaxy itself was her hair. Before I could gather my thoughts or words, my concern marred her face, and I felt my heart break. I never wanted to see her face with anything other than joy or happiness. "Isana?" She asked tentatively. I shook myself out of my own thoughts and replied "yes goddess?" My voice quiet and small. She smiled gently and moved towards me. "You see your two bonds here in the meadow, but you must make a choice and quickly. Once your choice has been made, what is to come will be like nothing you've ever faced before." Before I could even think to reply, she disappeared, and the sky darkened.

"ISANA!" I heard two mens voices call to me from either side of the bridges. But before I could move to either bridge, I heard the growling and snarling of the alpha's cruel wolf Hades. Senna and her chosen mate ran to my side to protect me, but as they blocked his attack, I fell into the river that pulled me beneath the surface. As I struggled to fight myself to it's surface I heard a howl of anguish. All three wolves watched me try to pull myself out, unable to help. As I tried to pull myself free, I felt two hands pulling me to the bank of the river. Alpha and my second mate, whom I had yet to discover his name. Alpha's name was Phil. But I wasn't allowed to call him anything but alpha. Whilst I was musing my second mates name, I felt alpha claws digging into my flesh. "Get Your ass over the bridge and stop this foolishness. Now," alpha venomously spat at me. I trembled in fear. But in my heart I knew I couldn't go back to him I couldn't choose him, not after everything.