The Blood Moon Festival 18 Years ago
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I wasn't ready to continue with the journey. I felt like I had already seen everything I needed to see. Rafi sat in the chair across from me quiet. I felt like she was allowing to swallow all that I had seen. This Ebenezer Scrooge like night was making my head spin and I found myself a bit more emotional than I thought this would make me. Right now I had more questions than I had answers. How long were they together? Is the Luna both of our mates? How is any of this possible. Then my thoughts went back to my sweet girl and my body shuttered. It seemed it all led back to my beta. My best friend or at least until now, I thought he was. None of this was making sense to me. Why out of all the wolves would he do this to me? But none of that mattered now because I was becoming blood thirsty. I knew I was slowly losing control of the beast inside of me. I was going to kill him as slowly and as painfully as possible and I needed to do it now.
That was when I realized I couldn't get out of my seat. I looked at Rafi with my eyes changing between blue and black rapidly. Before I could threaten her life she jumped up backing away. "Now I know what your thinking big guy and you deserve to go all wolf on your beta, but this always happens on these jobs so to help, you cannot react to any of the information until you've seen everything. it's just the rules, and as soon as you make your choice, you will be able to do as you please." Rafi was talking fast out of nervousness I'm sure and I was so angry that I didn't think about the way she worded what she said. All I heard was that i couldn't do anything now. I was trying everything to calm down. I'm doing this for my baby, For my pack, as soon as I'm done with this...adventure, I will kill him. I told myself this with my eyes closed calming myself down as best as I could under the circumstances. Rafi looked nervously at me until I opened my eyes searching for any signs of my beast. we sat silent for a second in this dangerous dance waiting for her to feel safe enough to continue. "Okay Alpha, what year next?" she said as if nothing happened. I thought for a second, because I thought I had seen all I wanted to see so far. I felt I had seen all I needed to see but the wolf inside me nagged at a question of why. To be honest, I didn't care why or even how. I wondered if it even mattered but my wolf felt I deserved to know.
I know the stakes are higher, if I choose the wrong date that was it. I needed to know when everything went wrong but I wasn't sure if it could be pinpointed in one night. The wolf thought for a second to when he thought life was a simpler time. It seemed he maybe the night he found his Luna could be it. The match never seemed right. As if each of them were somehow forcing the mate bond. After focusing for a moment the Alpha blurted out "I don't know where I should go next my life hasn't been the same for maybe 18 years or so." rubbing his forehead hard. Rafi nodded her head and and snapped her fingers and once aging the world shifted around them.
As soon as my eyes opened I realized I was now standing in the foyer of the pack house with very different décor. The welcoming browns and gold with accent of reds was how my mother decorated the pack house. It's the things like décor you never really paid attention to as a teenage boy that now I missed as the memory engulfed me. Walking around, my eyes landed on a few pack members that have been gone for some time now. I wandered to the living room and I saw my beautiful mother head thrown back in a laugh and my heart ached to have her with me again. That's when I recognized myself walking past me. I chuckled a bit, looking at how long my hair was and the absence of wrinkles on my face it was interesting really. It wasn't like I've never looked in the mirror before but this was different, this was me before all of the pain and betrayal. by my account, my life was perfect. Well, perfect for me. And then I saw her, Julianna looking back at young me and looking into her young honey brown eyes I felt something calling me to her. Why was my wolf so restless?
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