Chapter 7
1025 Words
Lucia POV
Your lying." I said through my teeth.
Erebus sighed then stood up. "How could I be lying, when I've lived the lives you've lived with you? Although each time your memory would fade. Soon you forgot who I was but I never stopped trying to get you to remember again. I promised you that didn't I?"
"I-I don't know what your talking about." My head throbbed. How come no one ever told me? I had lived lives I never knew about. Was this just one of them?
"Wait... I'm lost, I'm still me but Selenes' Soul is inside me."
"Let me explain it this way. You, are Lucia but Selene is a goddess. She never dies, therefore, you never die. Your just reborn. Your mother and father knew this, still they accepted the consequences."
"But I was dead when I was born..."
"Yes, every life you live you are stillborn until Selenes' soul awakens within you and makes you breathe life again. Your mother and father thought you were dead. So they prayed to the Selene to give you life but little did they know you had already lived many of them and Selenes' soul was already in you."
I couldn't believe this. My life as I knew it was being stretched and pulled into something I didn't recognize anymore....
"What did Selene make you promise her?"
Erebus looked me in the eyes, they showed warmth as he smiled. "She knew she would have different lives, different lovers and things would change consistently. She wanted me to be the one that didn't."
I held my knees to my chest. It scared me that I felt everything in that dream, Like I was there before. How many other lives had I lived? Did I even want to know?
No. My life was now, here with Bane. It didn't matter what happened in my other lives.
I slide off the bed and looked Erebus in the eyes. "Look, I understand you have a promise to keep, but let me make myself clear. I am not Selene, if you try anything with me. I will rip your throat out and watch you bleed. Am I clear?"
Erebus seemed taken back by my sudden ferocity. He looked to his side for a moment, then looked back at me. "You can see why that would be a hard thing to do. I had you first." Erebus started to come closer to me, his hand caressed my arm. I tired to act like it didn't affect me...I wanted it to not affect me but it did.
"Stop..." I said in a breathless voice. This wasn't me, It wasn't me who was feeling this way. It was Selene... Erebus had backed me up against the bed. He leaned into me with his hands on either side of me resting on the bed, my back arched as he leaned into me. My breathe caught in my throat. "You have the soul of my mate. As far as I'm concerned, your mine as well..." Erebus' voice was husky and was causing havoc on my body. My body responded in a way I didn't want it too, but I couldn't help it. The smell of him, was familiar."I showed you that dream for a reason Lucia, I wanted to spark an ember that might help you remember me." He leaned back and stood up. "I look forward to your next dream..." He said then vanished.
I gasped and fell to the floor. I couldn't help the burning sensation in my eyes. How, How could I have two mates. This wasn't possible, something had to be wrong. Bane was mate but if I had so many other lives and so many other mates...why didn't I remember any of them? How could I even tell Bane any of this? It would break his heart.
I would have to find a way to tell him, I could hold this back from him. It wouldn't be fair to him.
"Bane..."
"Lucia? What's wrong?"
"I need you."
This was horrible. I was finally settling in here, we had nothing holding us back from each other and now this happens. Bad luck must run deep in my blood....
"Lucia?" Bane came rushing through the door. He jumped into his arms. "Hey, what is wrong?"
"Don't hate me." I couldn't help myself and I started to sob into his chest.
"Hate you? Why would I hate? Lucia what's going on?" Bane lowered me done to the floor.
"I-It's hard to explain I-I don't even know where to start..."
Bane sat on the edge of the bed and gestured for me to sit with him. I curled into him.
Bane sighed. "Is there a way you can make me see it?"
"Yes...but I don't want too. Please, don't hate me."
"Lucia." Bane grabbed my hands. "I could never hate you.."
"You will..." I sobbed.
Bane crushed his lips against mine but it only made my heart ache. Then I felt Bane grab my hand and press it up against his chest and he made me show him everything...
As I felt everything flow through him, I could feel his nails dig into the top on my hand. I winced, I ripped my hand away. Bane shot up from the bed, his back was towards me.
"Bane?"
I could see his hands balled into fists. My heart sunk, I wanted him to hold me, to tell me it was okay and that it wasn't my fault.
"Bane, please, say something..."
His back tensed. I got off the bed and placed my hand on his back. "You said you wouldn't hate me..."
"I don't." He growled low in his throat. "But I swear to god Lucia if he ever puts his hands on you I will rip his Bat winged ass apart." He turned to me, his eyes were glowing.
"I don't care how many lives you've lived or If you were his first. He doesn't owe you."
"No." I said and cupped his face in my hands. "No, he doesn't, my heart is with you, I love you Bane." He pulled me into a heated kiss. Bane groaned deep in his throat, then grabbed my hips to pulled me against him.
This was all I wanted. Him and the pack, I wanted to be a good Luna to them and I won't fail.
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