Behind The Unseen Stars

Chapter Twenty Revenge

Six years later

It had been six long years since that dreadful day. Since the day that I lost my Gran and my Mother forever, since the day I promised to kill my own father.

After the spirit world collapsed, my father went into hiding, no one could find him and trust me we looked. I have never stopped.

I think it was more of me pushing than it was Luca, but I don't blame him, he was doing it to protect me and the cubs. We also found out that this war with my father was going to be the start of the war the Star God's were trying to stop.

I'm not saying I wasn't doing it to protect him and the cubs but I had a different agenda as well, I wanted to find him out of revenge. I didn't really care about the coming war, even though I am the one that brought it on. I was having a hard time feeling sorry for that...

Luca and the cubs are the only ones that have kept me from going nuclear and by nuclear, I mean letting myself go so far that I slip into The Dark, letting myself become as evil as my father.

My little boys and little girl had just turned eleven, I couldn't believe I was a Mother of 11-year-olds three of them to be exact.

The two boys protected their sister at all cost, they got in a lot of trouble protecting her, but it's not like me and Luca could be mad because they were keeping their sister safe.

I tried to throw myself into learning my magic, being with my family and learning how to run a Pride, but it was hard. In the back of my mind my father was still taunting me.

And I wouldn't even call him my father anymore, I didn't even know his real name, no one seemed to know. And every time I referred to him as that man, evil things seemed to consume my thoughts and I couldn't let it get that far.

I didn't want to tell Luca, but I feared that when I killed my father, it would be my un-doing. After I killed him, what if I was so far gone that nothing could bring me back. I knew that by killing him. It would push me the rest of the way into The Dark and, once you fell you never came back.

I was standing on our balcony watching as the cubs ran around and played, the boys were trying to help their sister catch a butterfly.

Even though she was the same age as her brothers, she only acted about seven years old it worried me and Luca. She seemed to be developing at a slow rate.

Jade has been looking after them so well, she's going to be a great mom, a very overprotective mom, but still a great one.

I felt Luca come up behind me and wrap his arms around me, I leaned back into his chest and closed my eyes sighing happily.

This is one of the times that I could be happiest, my cubs were outside playing, they were very happy. They were protected from any physical harm. We did the spell religiously, keeping up with it so that it never went away.

My mate was holding me in his arms, I always seemed to find peace here. It didn't matter what was going on inside of me, the wars I was fighting, as long as his arms were wrapped around me, I knew I was going to be okay and I would win, we would win.

"What are you thinking about so hard my love?' I felt Luca kiss the top of my head as his arms tightened slightly around me. He was always worried about me, even if I wasn't doing anything.

"Have we had any word?" I whispered. He would know what I was talking about.

"You've asked me that every day for the past six years. Rina, I would tell you as soon as we had any word, and we would pack up and we would move out, we wouldn't waste any time." Luca turned me around into his arms.