My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 52

{William's P.O.V.}

When I saw the crest of the Lunar Kingdom imprint itself onto Lexie's forehead, I knew what was coming. I had everyone take a step back, hoping that distancing ourselves from her would prevent her powers from emitting onto us, but I was wrong. We were too late, and I soon found myself, as well as the others, being blinded by the aura of Lexie's hidden power. I had hoped that I could block my senses to prevent myself from being sucked into the vortex that would send us back in time, but I was wrong yet again. When I opened my eyes, I found myself back in a time that I wish I could let go of but never could. A day where I questioned everything that I ever did and wondered if the choices I made were for the greater good or not. A day that I sometimes wish I could take back, knowing that I cannot.

"William!" I heard someone shout. A melodious voice that I will never forget. I knew that it wasn't geared towards me but, rather, towards the me that I needed to stay hidden from. I quickly ran into a room that I knew would be empty. A room that was commissioned to belong to an incredibly special someone that would arrive in due time. "William Corvino! Where are you!?" I heard the voice that I miss so much.

"Heaven! I'm right here!" I heard my own voice from many years ago calling out. I knew I couldn't stay hidden for long. My past self would eventually know of my presence since this was the time when my powers would be at their peak. "There you are, darling! Why are you so difficult to find?"

"Heaven, I've been right here, in the exact same spot where you left me two hours ago," my past self replied to her.

"Do not be a smart aleck with me, William!" she snapped at me. I could just picture myself giving her a look of pure love and adoration. After all, she was my mate. My first mate. My first true love. My queen. My Luna. "My apologies my dear, Heaven. How can I be of service?"

"You can use your powers to calm down your offspring that is wreaking havoc in my womb!"

"Heaven, you know as well as I do that I am not permitted to use my powers for personal gain. Let alone for your personal gain," I scolded her. I heard her huff in annoyance. Heaven was Egyptian royalty back in 1000 A.D., and she was a rare beauty. Golden skin, ravenous black hair that was straight and styled in a short, blunt cut with yellow eyes like that of a canary, and lips so plump that you couldn't help but want to kiss her.

"You always say that, William. A little mind control wouldn't hurt," she said. I could hear the smile in her voice. I shook my head at her tone. Same old Heaven.

"Heaven, I've told you once, I have told you a thousand times. I cannot keep using my powers. If the pack finds out that I have powers, it would be disastrous," I said to her.

"You are such a worrywart, my love. So what if people find out you're the most powerful of the land. They should be honored to have someone like you as their Alpha and leader. I know I am honored to have you." I continued to listen to this conversation. It was one that played in my head over and over again, and I would forever remember it as the final loving conversation I had with Heaven. Little did I know that someone we both trusted was listening in and would betray us all.

My best friend, Ramsey, or Ram as I called him. I trusted him with my life, and the life of Heaven and our unborn pup. But he did the unthinkable. He spied on us during this moment, and I had no idea since I spent the entire time in my position as Alpha controlling my power to read minds. All because I didn't want to disrespect my pack. I didn't want them to think that I would abuse the gifts that I was blessed with. But, alas, it was all for nothing. Ram became paranoid, and his paranoia got the best of him.

He went to the council of Elders and expressed his concerns about what he knew; in doing so, his psychosis became their own which soon spilled over into the pack itself. Ram and the council wanted to strip me of my powers by using dark magic. Heaven retaliated at the betrayal, but it was all in vain. Ram overpowered her and beat her within an inch of her life, his own Luna. The beating cost us our pup. A daughter. Stillborn because of that i***t's fixation that I was the enemy.

The loss of our pup was what drove me over the edge, and I killed Ram without even batting an eye. I used him as an example in front of everyone, and that proved his accusations against me. It was then I knew it was what he planned all along. He wanted me to lose my control, to prove his paranoia was justified. He wanted our kind to fear me, the powerful Primordial. I knew that there was no going back after that. No one would ever trust me again. So, I did what any disgraced Alpha would do. I denounced myself, and I proceeded in rejecting Heaven too. I still had no idea that I was immortal at the time. I had hoped that going rogue would eventually get me killed but, after allowing others to attack me, but I realized then that I couldn't die.

I ended up living the next several hundreds of years alone, passing from one pack to another as I heard mentions of the very few of my kind that was born throughout time. I trained them, taught them to harness their power and control it, and to never lose control of their anger the way I did. Unfortunately, it was all for nothing. Regardless of what I did, my kind was never accepted, and someone had even used their powers for personal gain. The females that Alessandro took and destroyed-they were the ones that I really felt sympathy for. Even my few years at the Kingdom as a guard was all for nothing, for yet again, I had failed.

"Will you stop with this pity party?!" I heard a voice that I knew all too well. Without even looking up, I questioned why she was here, inside my memories. "Why are you punishing yourself?" "Who says that I'm punishing myself?"

"Look at where we are! William, Lexie's power is only supposed to take you to the time where you're the most conflicted. You had already been alive for thousands of years at this point, yet you question your choices on this very day. Why?"

"Are you seriously asking me that, Selene? This day was when my entire life changed. My best friend and Beta betrayed me. I rejected my true mate and we lost our one and only child before she was even born. I proved Ramsey's allegations true. I killed him in cold blood and in front of everyone who had already started to fear me. I should have known, but I didn't. I turned off my power of mind-reading and look where it got me!"

"So, you blame yourself for what happened? All because you think that this one day where you and Heaven were talking about your powers is what made Ramsey paranoid and led to his betrayal?" I just looked at her as if everything was obvious. "Oh, William, you silly old man. You're just as naïve as ever. This had nothing to do with you being a Primordial. Ramsey was dead set on betraying you from the day you approached him to be your Beta." "What?"

"But of course, you had turned off your power of thought transference and so you never knew. That wasn't your fault. That was you being you. Ramsey was weak, broken, and had no confidence in himself as Beta. His only confidence was his ego, which was why he wanted to overthrow you. He thought he could do better. However, it was th is day that allowed him to come up with a different plan to dethrone you from your position as Alpha. By turning those who looked up to you against you, purely out of fear. And they were too busy thinking about what you could do to them rather than what you could do for them."

"None of that matters now, Selene. What's done is done!"

"Really? Then why are we here? You obviously still haven't let it go." I didn't want to give her the satisfaction of an answer, so I countered with another question.

"Why are you here?" I enunciated.

"Hm, deflection as always. Very well, I'll entertain your curiosity, William. I am here because it is time for you to take your place in the Kingdom."

"Not this again," I grunted.

"William, you have been in the mortal realm for over 7000 years. Yes, you were needed when the others were born and required actual direction and guidance, but you're not needed here anymore."

"I'm not? Then what about Rylee? And Samson? They're my blood too!"

"No, they're not," she said matter of factly. I looked at her as if she was an extraterrestrial being. "Rylee needed you at first, yes, but Samson doesn't. He has his mother to direct him down the right path. But you, my dear friend, you're needed where you can guide the future of your children from afar, the way I do. Reveal yourself to them occasionally in their dreams or their memories, and even in real life to give him a good nudge," she said with a little too much enthusiasm. "They are not my children, the way you call all werewolves, Selene. They are my descendants!"

"No, they're not! My goodness, how can I explain this so that you can actually understand?" she asked as she placed her hands on her hips in an exaggerated manner, as one would do while being frustrated with a child. "William, Rylee is the mother of all Primordials. Her bloodline will continue it, not yours. Yours never has. They were your kind, but not your descendants. Yes, you are technically the forefather being the first of your kind, as I am being the first werewolf. But only those born in the Kingdom are of my blood."

"And what about Olivia!? Am I just supposed to reject her for a second time and leave her high and dry!?"

"Of course not! What do you think I am, heartless!? I had an agreement with the Wiccan goddess, Miranda, and she allowed me to mate you with Olivia. I'm also surprised that you don't know more about Olivia and where she comes from." "What are you talking about?"

"Olivia isn't just a light witch. If she were, I wouldn't need Miranda's blessing," she said and gave me a look. I didn't need to read her mind to know what she was insinuating.

"Do you mean to tell me that Olivia is from the Kingdom!? She is Miranda's daughter!?"

"Yes." My eyes bulged out of my head for the first time in an awfully long time. "You need to take your place in the Kingdom so that you and Olivia can guide your children from afar, while Rylee and her bloodline guide them in the mortal realm. Your legacy will live on through Rylee and her pups. Samson and his sisters." "Sisters?!" I exclaimed. All she did was smile. "Is Rylee with child?"

"Well, we won't know for a couple of weeks, but..." she said and shrugged her shoulders. "Rylee and her children will begin a new legacy, and it will allow your legacy to live on through them. The race of the Primordials will forever reign, but that is why I need you in the Kingdom with me. We will work together to form bonds for our children. Ones that you must approve of to keep the Primordials alive for years to come."

"I need to stay and help Rylee fight Eric!"

"No, you don't. It's not your fight, and you cannot intervene. Rylee and the girls must do this on their own. It is the ultimate test for them."

"What do you mean by ultimate test? What are you doing to them, Selene!?"

"I'm not doing anything. I can't. Just like you can't."

"Oh, stop being so f*****g cryptic, Selene! Enough of your f*****g games!" I snapped at her.

"This is not a game, William Corvino!" she shouted at me. "Do you think I enjoy watching my children kill each other!? Do you think I take joy in seeing Eric become madder and madder with each passing day!? Do you think that it doesn't hurt, not being able to show myself to Lexie and Lanie!? MY OWN DAUGHTERS! BORN FROM MY WOMB AND THEN STOLEN FROM ME! I may be a celestial being, and I give life to the werewolves of this world, but I do not control their actions! Just like you can't control the actions of Rylee and the others! You tried to control the Primordials of the past and look what happened! We are never meant to interfere in their everyday lives. We are only meant to guide them in the right direction, but it's up to them to make the right choices. It is called free will." "Rylee isn't ready to be on her own."

"Oh, poppycock. You know she is, and you hate that she is. Samson doesn't need you either. He has his parents, who are great people, and even finer werewolves. Your pride is hurt because she has done better at controlling her powers more than you ever could, and she did it on her own. The only guidance you gave her was learning to bring her powers to life. But controlling them, no, she did that herself, and you know she did."

"Is that why you choose not to show yourself to her?"

"I'm not her goddess if you haven't noticed. You are her god!" she said point-blank. How had I never realized this before? "Yes, she was born because I mated Megan and Mitchell together, and it was I who put her into the hands of Eric. I needed her to live so she could eventually be reunited with Wyatt, and they could produce Sam. I was doing your job for you while you constantly wallowed in your self-pity because of what happened in the past!" she shouted with a huff at the end of her rant. "You need to accept the fact that everything happens for a reason, and that Rylee's bloodline will need their god to guide them," she continued, her tone more soft and gentle this time.

I gulped and thought about everything that she said. She was right, as always. I have spent too much time thinking about the past, and what could have been; but the fact of the matter was, it was the past, and it already happened. I closed my eyes, sighed heavily, and nodded my head. "When do I need to take my place?"

"When you return, speak to Olivia, as she will also need to join you. The sooner the better." I nodded my head and with that, she disappeared into thin air. Before I could dwell on the life-altering decision I just made, I was sucked into a dark vortex and began to fall into an abyss. The next thing I knew, the ground opened up, and I found myself falling from the sky. I used my powers to cushion my fall and landed on my two feet.

"Oh my god! William!" I heard Olivia's voice. I turned to see her running to me as fast as she could and leaped into my arms. I caught her as if she weighed nothing and saw that Wyatt, Chad, Brent, and Ryker were staring at me with wide eyes. I was about to kiss Olivia when she looked up and pushed me away suddenly. I looked up as well and saw three heads of blonde hair falling from the sky.

"Oh s**t!" I heard someone shout. Olivia and I worked quickly to catch the girls mid-air before they hit the ground. I gently turned them around so they would land on their feet and not their heads. "Whoa, that was a close one. Thanks, William," Rylee said and straightened out her clothes.

"RYLEE!"

"LANIE!"

"LEXIE!" the boys shouted and embraced their respective mates.

"Holy f*****g hell, what happened, little ones!? Where did you all go!?" Ryker asked while looking at Lanie and Lexie. Lanie, Rylee, and I all turned our gazes to Lexie and quirked our eyebrows at her. "IT WASN'T MY FAULT!"