The Final Choice
Hearing Aries stir, I didn’t hesitate. My voice was steady, unwavering.
“Have you awakened to accept your rejection, Grand Luna Aries?”
There was no softness in my tone, no lingering warmth from the centuries we had once shared. She knew my strength could overpower her, and I held no fear of her wrath.
I had spent lifetimes waiting for her to come to reason, to see that love could conquer, that it could destroy the evil that had poisoned her heart. But centuries had passed, and instead of love, she had twisted herself into something unrecognizable—a creature that ruled with pain rather than passion, with fear rather than faith.
She had once blamed me for loving her, for daring to give her something as pure as a child.
The moment she carried my pup, her love for me en
