Page 89 of The Alpha Wolf Defying Fate

I looked back at Alkmene as her skin glowed like the light of the moon. She smiled at me and raised her hand. With a flick of her wrist, a portal appeared and a familiar bird swooped through and landed on my shoulder.

“Sheka?” I gasped as my father’s bird began to peck at my check affectionately.

“He’s been looking for you ever since you left. Smart bird. He knew exactly where to wait for you,” Alkmene said with a smile. “You all no longer belong in this realm. It is time for you to return home.”

I looked over at the vampire as he remained where he had fallen.

“What about him?” I asked.

The three sisters looked over at him, their gazes softened. “He will stay here. There isn’t anything left for him. He will be better off forgotten.”

We all nodded as we moved towards the portal. Aurora and Baer couldn’t keep their hands to themselves as they disappeared first through the portal. Sasha paused and looked at the three dark witches.

“You are the first three?” She asked, though her eyes said she knew the answer.

The fiery-haired sister stepped forward and brushed Sasha’s hair behind her ears. “We may be the first, but you four are our legacies. Never forget that.”

I watched as she pressed a kiss to Sasha’s forehead before stepping back with her sisters.

I stepped forward then and took Sasha’s hand in mine and nodded to Alkmene. Sheka leaped over to my mate’s shoulder and nuzzled her face as she laughed before stepping into the portal. I went to follow them, then paused one last time.

“Why did he want her?” I asked.

Alkmene hummed as she looked between her sisters. “How can you rule the world if the one person who can control the same power as you isn’t at your side?”

It was a simple answer. Too simple, but I decided to accept it as it was. After all, he wasn’t coming back.

I walked through the portal then and I didn’t look back at the Realm of the Forgotten, because there was nothing left for me there.

Sasha greeted me with a kiss and laced her fingers with mine as I stepped into our world and I let out a sigh of contentment.

There was nothing but the future ahead of us now. Nothing but light and joy and the relief of knowing future generations were now safe.

Chapter Forty

Sasha

ItoldAydenaboutthe baby as we walked towards his family home. The portal had landed us right in the middle of the forest in Montana, right where his uncle had once traveled to the Forgotten Realm himself in search of his stole powers.

The joy that lit up his face as he lifted me and spun me around in the air. I laughed as Rory scolded him for manhandling a pregnant woman, though she didn’t dare to let go of Baer.

It had broken her to see him die like that. Her entire world had fallen apart right before our eyes. It was a miracle and a gift that the sisters had blessed him with his life returned. A gift for us all for defeating Morus and ending the threat he posed on the world.

I still didn’t understand exactly what it was he needed from me. Or anyone like me, but it no longer mattered. There would be no answers to that question as they died with him and Minerva. Now, the only one alive who might have those answers was destined to be forgotten. A fate I would say was worse than death, but I wasn’t sure if he would have agreed.

“We’re here,” Ayden said with a sigh as he breathed in the scent of his home. “The scouts have spotted us. They’ll be here soon.”

No sooner than he said that, a small pack of wolves appeared in our paths, the largest of the wolves quickly shifting to his human form as he rushed to pull Ayden into a tight embrace.

“Hey Dad,” Ayden greeted with a pat on the man’s back.

“We were so worried about you,” the man sighed, then stepped back. “Sheka said you were bringing friends with you. But I never imagined it was the missing Crete-Rigel girls or the missing Alpha king for that matter. Thank the gods you all are safe!”

I smiled as Ayden’s father’s eyes moved to our interlocked fingers; his brows raised with surprise as he looked at us.

Ayden smiled and pulled me to his side. “I have a few things to share with everyone.”

We all followed the scouts and Ayden’s father back to their ranch. Three older women with eyes like Ayden’s rushed over, each of them checking him over with concern and relief as they found him in one piece. The fourth woman of the group I recognized immediately from her visits to the school When Ayden attended.

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