Alpha's Daughter A Princess?

Chapter 21

 I lean back against the rock in the cave next to the cove. The statue that dad built of the moon goddess stands tall above the water. It makes her look like she is towering over all of the Earth.

"I fucked up didn't I?" I ask to no one.

I watch the sun's reflection on the water. I listen to the birds chirping in the morning light. Some dew still left on the blades of grass by the water's edge. It has a mystical feel to it like it should be in some sort of fantasy novel.

"No my child." I look up expecting to find someone standing in front of me.

"Hello?" I call out. I look around.

Nothing. I shake my head and rub my eyes.

"Great now i'm losing my mind to." I mutter.

"Your not crazy." I hear the voice again.

I close my eyes tight and cover my ears. I try to think about other things, but my mind keeps going back to the dinning hall and I can feel myself getting angry all over again.

"Anger will do you no good." I look up and let out a yelp. The most beautiful women I have ever met is standing before me. A white gound covering her body almost like mist.

"Who are you?" I ask.

"I go by many names. " She looks at me with a smile on her face. "Artemis, Nyx, and even Hecate." She says.

"Your the goddess of the moon?" I ask.

"I am indeed child." She smiles.

"Why me?" I ask.

"What what dear Skye?" 

"Why make me an Alpha? Why let Kylan find me? Why Kyle? Why the anger? Just why?" I question.

"My dear we all have to walk a path and this is the path that you were given. No it's not perfect and right now it seems like you don't have a clue, but this is exactly how it is meant to be." She smiles and moves closer to me.

"So riddles and inspirational quotes is all im getting?" I snap.

"You are filled with so much anger and hate Skye and until you can say why to that all I am going to gove you are riddles and how did you put it?" She stops for a minute to look at me. "Inspirational quotes." 

"My life is shit." I say.

"Not even close to why your angry Skye." I start getting annoyed.

"Since you know why don't you tell me why?" I scream.

"That would defeat the purpose of me getting it from you." She says.

"Fine!" I scream. "I'm angery because i'm not good enough. I have always had a standard to live up to. Everyone has always seen me as the girl wjo lost her mother to cancer and the child of the two legend of the werewolf world. They look at me as if i'm supposed to be this bad ass with all the answers when in reality I just turned twenty one and I don't have a clue. The council of elders thinks i'm a joke. Mom and dad are never home it's like they were so happy to get away. Kyle he is constantly trying to make me feel better about everything and we just end up arguing over it. My mate is suposed to be my other half, but I feel like I don't know where that half is the most of the time. I don't know why my biologial father left me. He dumped me and my mom. She never spoke about him and there are no records of im." I say. Tears are falling down my face and i'm talking so fast i'm trying to catch up on breathing.

"And?" She ask.

"And I'm not fit. I am a fake. I put on this front so no one knows that i'm a scared kid who is trying her best but can't seem to get the hang of it. I am so scared of loosing the people I love that loving someone is easier. For the longest time I didn't want a mate because that would mean I have to love them unconditonaly and I disn't know if I could do that half the time anyway." I'm full on sobbing now. I feel like a dam released and I don't know how to turn it off.

"Skye I choose you for a reason. You are pure of heart. You are not influenced by anything. You aren't scared to do what your heart tells you. No matter what you think. You are the direct decendent of Lucain. The first of your kind. You are an Alpha at heart. Kyle is your balance he may seem like he isn't but he is the calmer side of you. You have to be open to his influence." She sits next to me with an arm on my shoulder pulling me closer to her body.

"How?" 

"Time. As for why I let Kylan find you and your mom it's because Kylan is pure of heart. She was filled with so much hate before she found Lukas. I remember them when they found out they were mates. He tried his hardest to impress her and someone always found a way in at the worst of times. For your mom it was Annalise and for you that happend to be Margo. You are so much alike you and Kylan it is almost unreal."

"Why so much anger?" I ask in a weak voice almost mute.

"It is Lucian in you. He had so much anger in him when I gave him this gift." She says.

"What do you mean you gave him the gift?" I ask.

"I forget the legend says he was cursed by a witch." She chuckles and looks out on the waters surface. The sun now at its peak. "He wasn't cursed."

"Lucian was a nieve boy when I first met him. He knew me then as Artemis. " She says. She smiles as she thinks about the before.

"You loved him." I say.

"Eventually. All the myths and legends say I was a virgin who hunted with the wild and cursed people for pissing me off. In reality I was much like you. I had short temper." I laugh thinking about the goddess before me with a temper.

"Lucian was good with animals.He had a certain affinity for wolves in particular. I loved watching him with them in the woods. He reigned over them with an iron fist and I though it was fasinating. I eventually showed myself as a young women around his age in the woods. When I first showed myself he was rude and arrogant. He would always tell me he woods was no place for a women and that I had no business being out there.  As time went by we started to fall in love. I showed him who I was. He got scared and fled the woods. I thought he hated me. When he came back to me he was so confused and angry. He said I had betrayed him." She looks at me. Her eyes studying me

"We were yelling and the animals sensed the tension. It's kind of ironic now that I think back on it. A wolf that happened to be close picked up on the energy. I've always been one with animals. The greeks called me goddess of the hunt because of it. The wolf attacked Lucian and he killed the wolf. The world was not balanced. Two deaths like that due to a god is never good, so I did what I thought was a  gift. I created the first werewolf." She says. 

"Not a curse at all." I say.

"Lucian didn't turn right away he waited until the full moon and turned. He was so scared he stayed like that for months and when he finally controlled it enough to change back he hated me. He was furious. He had wanted to die. He told me that day I should have let him die why he loved me because he could never look at me the same. I left him alone not telling him that I was carrying his child. I let him die without him knowing. He was my other half and my mistake let him die hating me." A single tear falls from her eye.

"So am I your decedent?" I ask.

"You are." She says.

"So why does no one know the truth?" I ask.

"I let Lucian share whatever story he wanted with his people. It pained me to watch him with another women and that is actually where the mate jealousy comes from. Go to yours. If it is time then so be it, but I must warn you war is coming. You think the war Lukas and Kylan had to face was bad this one is going to be worse. I wish I could help you more, but I also have rules that I must follow. Go my child and be with your loved ones. I will watch over all of you." She says.

"Thank you for this." I say. She kisses the top of my head and disappears. I leave the cove and look back one last time.

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SO I WANTED TO PUT MY OWN SIN ON THE WEREWOLF ORIGIN STORY HOPE IT MAKES SENSE IF NOT AND I WILL PUT AN ENTIRE CHAPTER ON IT. KIND OF LIKE A BONUS CHAPTER.