Chapter 93: I won’t die... at least not today...
Earlier... Two hours and Thirty Minutes before Selene’s Arrival at Apex Hotel
Hidden Invisible Bunker in the Woods.
Kurtis POV
I knew sending Selene to greet the so-called emissaries from the West – Wild Hunt Pack was a huge risk but we were out of options. To me, this mission was more than securing Moon Whisper territories, the Eastern Coalition and pledging my allegiance to the Lycan King Noah – Xavier’s Uncle because I didn’t think it was necessary but had only done it on Xavier’s insistence... it was a personal mission for me.
Two years ago, I had gone against my principle by killing an innocent man and until I avenged his death, my conscience would not let me rest. The path I had chosen for myself was clear... it was distinct... from the day my father had killed my mother in one of his drunken states, I couldn’t stand the abuse anymore. That wasn’t all, he rejected me and made me a fugitive... I had sworn to become a god by myself. I wasn’t going to be embroiled in the fiasco that everyone seemed to have with the moon goddess.
I wasn’t going to let good people die or punish a child that didn’t deserve death like the moon goddess. Neither will I stay mute when people need my help. I was going to become a god...love and provide for my people and most importantly, make them independent of me. I wanted them to think on their feet, and make decisions without needing to ask me for help.
When my dad used to hit my mother all the time and me and my siblings, she was afraid to leave... women without husbands were considered as good as rogues and to make it worse, she was an Alpha’s wife. The ridicule and the woe that would have come to her if she had done that would have been worse than dying in my father’s hand.
What was more, I watched her for nearly fifteen years of my life going from one moon goddess shrine to another... praying and making sacrifices for them to change her husband and make him love her. She even went as far as communing with Sirens, taking potions and things she would slip into his food. Most of them worked for a while... but after it got exhausted, my dad would go back to the monster he was while my mom would resume her role as a punching bag.
She couldn’t leave... she relied so much on the moon goddess and stupid laws that forbade her from leaving her mate and what did she get in return... death. The world I dreamed of was one without all the old laws and the religion of the moon goddess which seemed to hem people in and to say the truth... the only people and persons that could help me in actualizing this goal were Xavier and Selene.
They were products of the ’Dark Moon’ – the birth of the ’Dark Moon’ changed a lot of things in the history of the mythical world and from all the studies and travels I’ve made all these years... if I need a change... I needed the true agent and catalyst of change.
I needed to invoke the powers that had come from the ’Dark Moon’ on the day of Selene’s and Xavier’s birth, the aura of the ’Blood Moon’ from the birth of their children and my strength and discernment from being born ’On the Eve of the Dark Moon’. The only way we could activate all of these deposits in us was to be together. The study didn’t show how it could be done; it had stated only: