Healed by the Alpha (Hunted Book Two)

Chapter Sixty Five

Emily

I had never before been skiing. I had no idea what I was doing, and to be honest I just felt like a fawn on ice. "Are you really sure this is a good idea?" I asked Ferdinand as we sat in the chair lift on the way to the slope. "You'll be fine when you're up there, it's a thrill!" He tried to reassure me, but as I watched the people below me topple over and fall repeatedly, I didn't feel reassured.

"I don't know why I ever agreed to this." I said out loud, more to myself than anyone else. "Dominick needs to spend some time with the moon goddess, you're giving him that." Like I needed reminding. Would anyone stop to think about what he wanted? "What happens?" I asked him, "What happens if he doesn't choose?" Ferdinand started laughing, my face was stone cold serious. "Oh, you're being serious?"

I watched as the snow capped mountains grew larger the closer we were getting. "Why would I joke about that?" He rubbed his chin awkwardly, "The thing is, he doesn't really get a choice." It's not as if I hadn't considered that, of course I knew that it was totally possible for them to practically kidnap him, but he was also an Alpha, didn't that count for anything? Before I knew it, we were pulling up to a huge building and being ushered off of the seat.

"I know what you're thinking," I highly doubted that. "You're thinking that it's not fair, that he should have some kind of say in his own life. Choose his own path?" Okay so maybe he did know what I was thinking. "The thing is, Emily... he's a celestial decedent. People like that shouldn't even exist. They weren't meant to be created." I gripped harder onto the long sticks with the sharp ends that I had just been handed, "so you basically want me to pretend that he never existed?"

Ferdinand sighed, his shoulders sagging under the pressure of his words. He didn't say anything. "I can't just forget about him, he's my mate. That might not mean much to you, but to people like me... it's the biggest thing that can happen." Why he didn't understand was that this was the doing of the moon goddess. "If it wasn't for the moon goddess, none of you would exist. I think you owe it to her to give them some privacy."

I climbed my way to the top of the snowy slope and stood on the edge. "Can I tell you a story about the Sun God?" He asked. "About Dom? What could you kno-" Ferdinand smiled, "no not about Dom specifically, but more about what he embodies." Should I not be wanting to know more about him? Regardless of who he's destined to be with, this was his history.

I nodded for him to continue and he dragged his feet next to me, "The moon goddess and the Sun God ruled I've the celestial world together. She came to Earth to help him. They helped each other. They were very close and very intimate because they were the only beings that understood each other." I was struggling to see where this was going other than rubbing it in my face some more.

"One day the Sun God disappeared. The moon goddess had no idea where he'd gone, but he left a man called Apollo in his place. His name was Helios at the time. The moon goddess had noticed that there was trouble in Egypt and when she came down to see what was going on, she was met with a small community of people that were talking about Helios. Of course, the gods were not supposed to live among people. Their might is far too much for us to handle in large doses. Even a small disagreement could rock mountains."

I was failing to read any relevance to Dom in this situation.

"It turned out that Helios had fallen in love with a wolf woman while he was visiting and neglected his duties and the moon goddess because of that." I gasped and held my hand up to my mouth, he took a human as a partner?" Ferdinand's eyebrow raised, "I would hardly call a she-wolf a human but yes, strictly speaking she did have a human skin. According to the locals, he was infatuated with her, he'd tried to stay away but he couldn't stop seeing her."

Wow. Okay, they must've left out that part in pack history. I had always thought that the moon goddess and the Sun God were a thing. Not romantically because who even knew they had real life bodies? But you wouldn't ever consider the sun without the moon. To know that something got in the way of that was heartbreaking. "What happened?" I asked him. I think he was happy to see that I was interested.

"That's the thing, we don't know. All we know is that he disappeared and left a guy called Apollo in his place. When she tried to find the woman to ask her about it, there was no trace that she had ever existed." I could sympathise with losing everything that you thought was your world and ending up being replaced. Isn't that exactly what had happened to me? "I get it, I do. But he's still a person, Ferdinand." I begged him.

"The sun god didn't just leave the moon goddess, she later found out that he had left the women pregnant too and she had to bring up the child alone. She wanted to find the child, to train them in the way that they should be trained." He positioned his skis next to mine and helped me to adjust my posture, "like I said, their might is far too much for humans to handle and with a celestial child, who was to know what would happen. She was trying to protect the child."

With that he was gone, zigzagging down the snow and leaving a trail of ice in his wake. I pushed off from the edge of the slope and let go of all my feelings at the same time. It was easier not to think right now. It was seeming like a better option to not feel either.