Page 150 of A Mysterious Slave for the Lycan Prince

I wonder how I should even interact with them. Here underwater, my possibilities are limited. To my surprise, the woman in the dark sighs. “You can talk here.”

“What?” I say out loud, my eyes widening in shock. This is impossible! “What’s going on?”

“You’re drowning,” the dark woman tells me. “That’s what’s going on. We just prolonged your time here. And you have a decision to make, just like the prophecy said you would.”

In my mind, I can feel Sereia’s attention returning. She has been shell-shocked, it seems.

Sereia, who are these two?

I can’t believe it,she whispers.

What?

One is my mother, the Moon Goddess,Sereia blurts out, much to my shock.Then the other has to be the Goddess of the ocean.

“An alliance like this has never happened before,” the supposed Goddess of the Ocean claims. “But a particularly evil storm brought one of my children to the land.”

“And met one of my children,” the Moon Goddess says with a warm smile. “They weren’t fated, but my poor child grew up in a horrible pack, and she never had the freedom to accept a fated mate. They assumed the man from the sea was a warrior from a ship that ran ashore. They accepted each other as chosen mates and fell in love.” Her expression darkens. “Your father hid his identity well. My corrupted child, the pack’s alpha, allowed the union to proceed.”

“That’s all well and good. But we are supposed to keep it separated,” the Goddess of the Ocean exclaims. “Sea and land!”

“Nevertheless, it happened.” the Moon Goddess smiles brightly. “A miracle was born from it.”

“I mean, I can’t deny that it was fascinating to see their child being born,” the other Goddess muses. She looks at me. “But now you have to decide! You can’t be both. Choose the land or the ocean. You’re running out of time, literally.”

I have no time to think things through. The two women reach their hands out toward me, signaling for me to take one of them. Wait, does this mean I have to choose? I don’t even understand what I am choosing between.

Do I choose Sereia and—I swallow—the Moon Goddess, therefore choosing to lose this spark inside me, this hidden part of my identity? Although I never knew it, it was always part of me. Or do I choose the Goddess of the Ocean and explore my identity but lose the other half of my soul? And what does this mean for me and Finn?

“How can I make this decision when I’m literally underwater?” I finally blurt out. “And what happened to my parents? Who was my father? Who am I?”

I can’t do it. I frown deeply. Sereia is part of me. Killing her means killing myself, but my unknown roots are also part of me. The part of my aura Finn couldn’t touch, the power that kept me going, the strength that made me stand up against the warriors and protect others I figure must be a gift from my father’s side. All of this made me who I am and helped me survive.

The Goddess of the Ocean looks at me, then at the Moon Goddess. “That’s your fault, Selene,” she says, her tone going from annoyed to amused. “You just had to give her a wolf with a sweet personality.”

“Oh, Amphitrite. Of course, why wouldn’t I?” Selene smiles. “And who was it again who named her Sereia?”

I blink at them, confused. “What’s so special about that name?”

“This was supposed to be a straightforward decision,” Amphitrite huffs. “I even made sure you received a prophecy.”

I can’t believe it. I was trolled by the Goddess of the Ocean! I’ve been obsessing over this prophecy for weeks, believing I would doom everyone if I chose wrong. Choose the light or choose the darkness. I guess it kind of makes sense now. The darkness was not the darkness of evil; it was the unknown darkness of the ocean, and the light was the moonlight. I wonder if Flora knew all along. I can’t help but be amused. That woman has her ways of hiding information.

“The world isn’t black and white,” I finally say quietly. “And it’s not good or evil. There are many layers in between. My parents loved each other… how can a child born out of their love be wrong?”

“Nothing is wrong about you, my child,” Selene says softly.

“But my parents made me who I am,” I point out. “If I decide now, it means killing one of them. I’ve never known my parents, but their power is inside me, like the unique gifts they gave me. It’s all I have left of them, the only thing that remained. I have nothing else that reminds me of them.”

“You know.” Selene smiles and turns to the Goddess of the Ocean. I can see the hint of a smirk curling her lips and betraying her innocent expression. “Technically, I won this bet, Amphitrite.”

“Only because you cheated.”

“I didn’t cheat. Nowhere in our deal did it say I couldn’t ask for help.”

She seems to be talking about Flora. Who the fuck is Flora, really? Is she besties with the Moon Goddess in person?

Both women exchange a gaze, then they each grab one of my arms and pull me upwards. “I don’t do hybrids normally,” Amphitrite claims. “Too much work, and they are never going to reach their full potential.”

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