"Leave us." Harley said, looking at the raging Marietta."
Both Zack and Lexy left and shut the four behind them.
Harley told Marietta to sit on the chair beside him.
"What exactly do you remember?" Harley asked.
Marietta told Harley all that happened to her, she told him how she failed to awaken her wolf for two years and finally succeeded when she was 20 years of age. She also told them how she got rejected by Sails the night he was given the Alpha title.
All the while she was talking, Harley didn't say a word and looked sad, hurt, and deep in thought.
Marietta who was burning in hatred, looked at Harley and saw his sad and hurt expression for the first time immediately calmed down.
"Harley, Harley, are you okay?" Marietta tapped his shoulder and he snapped out of his daze.
"Are you okay? You looked lost."
"Oh, yeah, sorry about that, I was just thinking about something."
"Mind telling me?" Marietta asked, making her voice as soft as possible.
"It's nothing that big of a deal, it's just I thought about my mate when you were talking about yours."
"Your mate, you already found yours, what happened, may I ask who she is?"
"Yeah, I already found her, it's a long story and I don't want to bore you with my story."
"It's okay, I was the one who asked, besides, I want to know what happened. Did she die and you blame yourself for it, that's why you've been cold and distant from people?"
Harley chuckled, "No, she didn't die, she just…."
"She just what?"
" She rejected me after a while of being with me because she had someone else she loved and wanted to be with for the rest of her life."
" Oh my, that's similar to mine, I don't know what's wrong with both our mates, they are so heartless. I'm sorry by the way."
" It's not their fault, it's just our luck."
" Well, fuck that dump luck and stupid destiny or whatever they call it."
Harley stared at Marietta and started to laugh uncontrollably. "You're funny."
"Lol, yeah, so…you wanna tell me what happened?" Marietta asked, moving closer to him.
Harley looked like he was about to say something but didn't know where to start.
"I hum, I don't know where to start from."
"Start at the beginning if that's comfortable for you."
"Okay, I met her at a bar in the Green Hill pack and I instantly knew she was the one. We talked for a while and I told her she was my mate and I wanted to claim her as mine but she gave a few excuses saying we should wait for a while. I didn't want to rush her so I agreed and things were going fine until I stopped hearing from her and seeing her. I tried looking for her but it was hard because we had not mated yet. It went on like that for a few weeks until I finally found her in the Laufey pack, kissing Silas who was later rumored to be your mate three months later. I confronted her about it and she said it was just a misunderstanding and made me believe she had changed; three days later she rejected me and I was in a hell of a pain."
" I hate this."
"Hate what?"
"Can't we choose how our fate should be? We're half humans too right? And humans get to choose whomever they want to spend the rest of their lives with and not us, not fair."
Harley stared at how same pouted her lips to the front and looked like an innocent pup trying to fight for the ones she loved. For a second, his heart suddenly started beating fast and he could see light from above shining directly at her, making her beauty more exposed.
"What just happened?" Harley asked himself in a whisper.
"Did you say something?"
"What?"
"Did you say something?" Marietta asked again.
"No, no I wasn't saying anything."
"Oh okay. I almost forgot, what was your mate?" Marietta asked looking at Harley innocently.
"Honestly, I thought you would have found out already with the summary I told you."
"The summary…holy shit, your mate was Lolla!? Damn, I didn't know your luck was that bad." Marietta said and burst into laughter.
"Stop laughing, it's not funny."
"It's not you, I'm not laughing at you, I'm just surprised the Moon goddess gave her a mate," Marietta said and kept laughing.
They both were laughing together then suddenly, Harley stopped when he felt Renegade wake up.
"Someone is here," Renegade said, laying on a flat but high rock beside a lake, and the surroundings were filled with different and beautiful flowers.
"Who is?" Harley asked, confused.
" The mother is here."
" The mother as in the Moon goddess is here?"
"Yes."
"What are you talking about, what do you mean by the Moon goddess here?" Marietta asked, looking at Harley with a worried expression.
"The Moon goddess hasn't been on earth for decades, so…"
Harley was still talking when she got distracted by a white light bright enough to make a mere human go blind for a week or two.
After blinking about 200 hundred times, both Harley and Marietta could see. They saw a gold-haired woman whose hair was floating, with skin whiter than snow and a beauty that was out of this world. She was surrendered with white smoke and was floating in the air. She wore a white acetate robe and almost half of her body was covered in the white smoke.
A small was displayed on her face and her eyes were as blue as the oceans. Her eyes alone can make electricity run through your veins. She looked at Marietta and her smile brightened.
"Hello my child, how are you doing? I see you're subconscious has found a way to bring back your memories." The Moon goddess said, a voice as sweet as honey and Angelic.
Both Marietta and Harley didn't know what to say and just kept staring at the Moon goddess.
The Moon goddess started to laugh, "I know you have so much to say and ask but you have to open your mouths and ask yourselves before I can answer them."
Marietta quickly snapped out of her daze and asked her what happened when she passed out the night Silas became the Alpha.
The Moon goddess told her everything that happened and Marietta fell to her knees, with tears in her eyes, and felt hatred towards Silas and Lolly like never before, but mostly Silas.
"How can I get my wolf back, can you bring her back? You were the one who gave her to me right, then you can bring her back."
The Moon goddess looked at her with a sad expression before answering, " I'm sorry my child, although I was the one who gave her to you, I can not bring her back fully, I can only bring back a fraction of her spirit."
"Why can't you bring her back fully? Please bring her back to me." Marietta said and burst into tears. "You are a goddess right?"
"I'm sorry my child, even if I am a goddess, I have limitations on what I can do, and undoing the punishment I set was not something I am going to do."
"What do we have to do to bring back Marietta's wolf?" Harley asked and the Moon goddess looked at him with dignity.
"As I said before, I can only give Marietta a fraction of Monica, but she has to seek a witch to revive her fully, or else, the small fraction I give to her will vanish and Monica will be lost forever.
"What! Why me, why did you have to give me such a cruel life and yet still call me your child? I'm a nobody." Marietta said in a low voice, almost as low as a whisper.
"I'm sorry for giving you a cruel life my child, and you too Harley, in sorry, but it's for your own sake." The Moon goddess replied to Marietta, looking from both Harley and Marietta.
"So you're saying we have to live like this for the rest of our lives?"
"I never said that." the Moon goddess said with a smirk.
Harley and Marietta looked at the Moon goddess confused.
"I know I have limits but that doesn't stop me from giving the both of you a second chance mate."
"You what?"
"Yes, but first," she turned to look at Marietta, should I give you a fraction of Monica back, or…?"
"Yes, yes please."
"Come forward."
Marietta immediately stood up and went to stand in front of the Moon goddess.
The Moon goddess placed her right hand in front of Marietta and white smoke surrounded Marietta.
Marietta closed her eyes and opened it again. She saw Monica looking at her for a second and everywhere went back to normal.