Oh, Goddess! Logan!
“You are not dead, Emma.” she said, looking back at me. “You were here before, don’t you remember?”
I furrowed my eyebrows. That was real? That wasn’t a dream?
“It was real, Emma.” the Moon Goddess said. “You and Logan were here. You met here in your dreams.”
This was getting creepy. I needed to speak. I couldn’t let her just respond to my thoughts.
“What are we doing here?” I asked.
The Moon Goddess looked at Nathan and took a deep breath.
“Come closer.” she told him.
I flinched and took a step back. Why was she calling him closer? Didn’t she know what he wanted to do?
“He is not going to hurt you, Emma.” the Moon Goddess said softly.
I looked at Nathan. There was a mixture of emotions written all over his face. I recognized shock, fear, sadness, and regret.
Nathan came to stand next to me. He kept his eyes on the Moon Goddess.
“I am sorry, Nathan.” she said softly. “You didn’t deserve this. You didn’t deserve this curse.”
My heart raced.
I was right! Logan was my Goddess-given mate!
“Curse?” Nathan mumbled. “I was really her cursed mate?”
The Moon Goddess nodded.
“The bond between you two is gone.” she said. “Can’t you feel it?”
Nathan looked at me and nodded.
“Your true mate is waiting for you back at your pack.” the Moon Goddess said, making Nathan look back at her.
“You are still giving me my mate?” Nathan mumbled. “After everything that I did?”
“You are my child, Nathan.” the Moon Goddess said softly. “You were one of the victims of an ancient curse. I am angry, but I forgive you. You deserve a second chance, but I am not the one who can give it to you.”
The Moon Goddess looked at me.
Nathan sighed and looked down at the ground.
“I don’t think I will get a second chance.” Nathan mumbled. “I’ve done horrible things. They won’t let me go.”
My heart clenched painfully. He did do some terrible things.
But was it really his fault? He was cursed by dark magic. That had to change who he really was. I glanced at the Moon Goddess, and she gave me a small nod.
“He never listened to his wolf.” the Moon Goddess said, making Nathan look back up at her. “Noel’s soul wasn’t darkened by the curse.”
Nathan furrowed his eyebrows.
I looked at him and took a deep breath.
“I will talk to them.” I said, making him look at me. “I will try to explain it to them. I will try to get you back home to your mate.”
Nathan’s eyes widened in shock. “But I…”
“You screwed up.” I interrupted him. “I am giving you a second chance. I don’t want your wolf and your Goddess-given mate to get hurt.”
Nathan was staring at me with a shocked expression on his face.
“I can’t speak for Andrew.” I said, shaking my head. “You threatened his mate. I won’t promise you that Andrew will let you go, but I promise you that I will try to talk to him.”
Nathan sobbed and fell to his knees. He placed his head in his hands and pulled on his hair.
“I am so sorry.” he mumbled. “I am so fucking sorry.”
I took a deep breath and closed my eyes for a second.
He did a terrible thing. He deserved to be punished for it. But my heart kept screaming at me that it wasn’t really his fault. If he wasn’t cursed, he would have never done it.
“Don’t screw up again.” I said. “Don’t anger me again. Now we both know that I can fry your ass.”
Nathan looked up at me and nodded.
“And please, for the love of Goddess, stop listening to your father.” I said. “I am sure that you are capable of leading your pack without him.”
Nathan nodded again and stood back up.
“He’s been fueling the darkness inside me since I was a child.” Nathan mumbled. “But I can’t blame him for everything. I screwed up on my own a bunch of times.”
I nodded and took a deep breath.
“You should probably listen to Noel more.” I said. “Eliza said that he is a really good wolf.”
Nathan smiled and nodded. “He is. He is going to be pissed at me. I’ve been shutting him down for days.”
I sighed and looked toward the Moon Goddess. She wasn’t here anymore.
I furrowed my eyebrows and looked around.
“Where is she?” Nathan mumbled.
I shrugged and looked back at him.
“How do we go back?” he asked, looking around the field.
I didn’t know that either.
At least not until I felt a push that made me gasp.
I opened my eyes and saw my beautiful mate’s face above me.
Logan POV
I pushed the fucker’s body off her.
“Emma!” I screamed as I grabbed her face.
She was so cold. She wasn’t breathing.
Why wasn’t she breathing?!
Andrew threw himself next to me, grabbing her hand and pulling her closer to him.
“Emma!” Andrew screamed. “Wake up!”
My heart was going to break through my rib cage.
Leon was screaming something, but I couldn’t even understand what. I could only look at her face. I could only think about the fact that she wasn’t breathing.
“Her heart isn’t beating!” Andrew screamed.
She wasn’t dead. She couldn’t have been dead. I would have felt it. I would have felt her die.
‘She isn’t dead!’ I finally heard Leon’s screams. ‘She isn’t dead, Logan. I can feel her. I can feel Eliza!’
“She isn’t dead.” I mumbled as I leaned my forehead against hers.
“What?!” Andrew screamed as he tried to pull me away from her. “We need to save her, Logan!”
“She isn’t dead!” I repeated.
“Move!” Andrew screamed at me. “Let me resuscitate her!”
“She isn’t fucking dead!” I screamed back at him as I moved, lifted my head, and looked at him.
Andrew looked like he was going to explode any second now.
“She isn’t breathing!” he screamed. “Her heart isn’t beating!”
“She isn’t dead.” I said calmly as I looked back down at her. “You aren’t dead, my love. Come back to me.”
I kissed her cheek softly. She wasn’t dead. Leon said so. I felt it. She was alive.
“Logan!” Andrew screamed as he grabbed my upper arm.
I looked at him and saw him pointing at her neck.
My mark was slowly disappearing.
WHAT?!
NO!
My hand flew to my neck. Her mark was gone too. I couldn’t feel it anymore.
NO!
No, no, no, no!
Why?!
Was I her cursed mate? Is that why it disappeared?!
I heard people behind us, but I couldn’t turn around to see who it was. I couldn’t move my eyes from her neck. The mark was completely gone.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.