Dead Luna – Chapter 82

Leo’s POV

“Leo?” I hear Amelia calling my name, and I feel her caress my face, but I can’t quite wake up. “I’ll be back as soon as I can. Hang in there!”

I want to reach out to Amelia, but I can’t move at all, and now that she has left I begin to feel cold. And I become afraid that I will die before she comes back. Not because I’m afraid of death, but because I worry about her. I know the years ahead will be hard. And I really want to speak to her one last time.

’m excited for her as well as for Lance and I. We will be such a happy family!

Of course, I won’t recall my previous life. And it’ll be hard to grow up again without a father figure i

l myself slipping away into nothingness. I guess this is it, then. I’m dying. I won’t have a last

t. Wait? I still have a heartbeat? Am I dead, or aren’t I?

t just yesterday? I’m not sure time has any meaning at all in this place. I look around in wonder at Selene’s study, where she comes to view our lives within the books that are organized so neatly on her innumerable shelves, all our past, present, and future.

ly, and not very friendly.

“Wow!”

taste for a human.

uld taste good at all!”

ugh several books at once. She looks exactly how Amelia had described her.

e absently pets the lyca

now, and has a lot on his mind.”

ud in surprise.

ven more. Is she talking to me, or someone else? What choices?

e William, while her parents look on.

rms me, handing yet another book to me, and I watch in horror as she slices deeply into her own arms with a knife, alone in an ornate bathroom.

could happen. “He told me I would come back, Amelia would give birth to twin boys, and that L

have the pups, she will be forced to hide them after she gives birth, never to see them again. There are so many possibilities, and none of them pleasant. None of them reflect what I wish for her.”

ever do something so drastic.

re saved by Alexander, Lance can not be saved.”

a young boy until I had him.

e. “What are the choices?”

s she has before her. I see many things happening, but I don’t know what any of this means. One book shows war, Amelia surrounded by death, destruction, and despair. Her father lies dead at her feet. Another book shows Amelia looking beautiful in a gown fit for a princess, but sad and pale as she enters into a mating ceremony

“You could also choose to be reborn, along with Lance, and be raised together as foundlings. Or you can be saved by

and now suddenly I’d become a prince of the realm?”

ing.”

on earth?

d be like if I agree to go back and become a prince

. The things you saw are only possibilities of what might happen. I cannot even guarantee that Alexander will try to save you, but I believe with the right threat, it is likely.”

se these ones.

prompting, and look over her shoulder.

ether she would see me alive again or not. Then Jackson takes her to her guest room, and while she showers, I see Jackson assembling all the clothes and things she will need, then he helps to transform her into a beautiful princess.

e addresses the crowd like a leader, even thanking me and my pack for hosting. Then she is

t what her father says.

better?”

is already gone.

You

You can just call

Ok, then!