Chapter 188


    Ivory leans against the cushion of the single couch. She knots her fingers together, sliding a leg over


    her knee as she settles in her seat. The air around her screams elegance. Her posture, expression,


    bodynguage. The rhythmic tapping of her fingernails against the wooden armrest eliminates the


    complete silence on our end.


    We were all in the Alpha’s office now, watching the woman unclip her cloak so that the thick, red wool


    pools around her frame. She was a beautiful woman; pale blue, supple skin with inked markings


    stretching for miles from the top of her head to the tips of her toes, beautiful, sharp orange eyes with


    flecks of green surrounding the irises. She had thick green hair smoothened into a loose ponytail she


    tied off with a ribbon. Her lean but slender figure constricted in the confines of her ck, long sleeved


    dress.


    Raizel and I sat opposite of her. His fingers intertwined with mine with vin e-li ke grip and rested right at


    his knee. I could sense the inner turmoil in his mind after what she’d said about some ancestor. His


    confusion clouded over with heavy thought showing on his face. It felt like things had clicked in his


    mind yet had only manage to confuse me even more.


    I had no ancestor named Luna Bet.


    At least, none that I know of


    “Can you start from the beginning?”


    I surprise everyone from their thoughts. Isaac’s confusion being the one I felt most due to our bond. I


    didn’t mean to sound so using, but with all the confusion catching up to me, my disbelief slipped. I


    didn’t necessarily believe her but I knew I couldn’t be too closed minded.


    “Of course,”


    Ivory licked her lips slowly, staring at the floor with distant eyes like she was stuck in a memory. She


    took in a small breath and sighed.


    “I suppose I should start off by rifying the Moon Goddess’ role and her powers. Most wolves assume


    that she controls everything. Fate, destiny- whatever you want to call it. While to an extent, that’s true,


    there’s also much to recognize as untrue. The moment wee into existence, we get tied to another


    soul. Our mate. Everyone has one. The Goddess is the one who ties us together. She binds our soul to


    the one she saw fit to be our match. She predetermines who you will have before you’re even


    conceived but it won’t be in effect until the moment a wolf takes their first breath. She outlines our fate,


    but she never forces it as most believe. Think of her as an architect. She designs our lives like


    architects would buildings but in the end of the day, the ones who build the actual structure are others.


    She doesn’t take the bricks and cement them together. The ones who build our lives is none other but


    ourselves. What most wolves fail to realize is, that although she bound us to another, she doesn’t


    control us.”


    Ivory leans forward and swept her gaze around the room,


    “We still make the choices in our lives. We are the ultimate deciders. We consciously choose to do


    things. The Goddess is there to guide us to the road, but it’s still entirely our decision whether or not to


    actually use it. Yes, your wolf is there to act as another guide, but holistically, it is still our humanity that


    has control. Most wolves follow her guidance… others, well, they don’t.”


    “Rogues.”


    Isaac mumbles, ring down at the floor. Ivory lifts her eyes to nce at him but nods silently. The


    frown on her face and the pity in her eyes tells me she knows more about our past than I initially


    assumed. I instantly bristled, thinking back to Duskfall before forcibly shutting my mind off.


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    “Yes. Rogues. Rogues are those whopletely disregarded the Goddess’ wishes. They seek to


    destroy bnce and obtain more power for themselves. Rogues are the ones who choose not to take


    the path the Goddess guides us to- they’re the ones who take theplete opposite. The ones who


    only seek to wreck havoc for a new order. The ones who wish to destroy that road so no one else can


    use it.”


    Her eyes fleet over to me and they shed with interest,


    “And then there’s those who wish to defy the mateship.”


    I could feel Stefan and Laura’s confused gazes biting into me, even Violet and Xavier’s (though I’m


    sure they have no clue as to what was going on here) burn into the side of


    my face.


    “Those that defy the mateship blur the reality the Goddess has foreseen us with. Pups that never


    should’ve existed are born and the pups that should have existed never did. Romanuv Locksworth,


    ancestor of the Young Alpha, was the first to propose the division ofnd among packs. Everyone


    knows this. It’smon knowledge.”


    She shrugs,


    “What people typically don’t know is that he was also the first to deny the Goddess’ gift. He rejected his


    mate. He became the, forgive me for theck of a better word, trendsetter. The moment he had his heir


    with Analisa, the woman he chose over his mate, he essentially destroyed the Goddess* agenda. The


    outline of the future crumbled with that choice. He didn’t realize there’d be a butterfly effect with that


    decision… The mate of Analisa mated with another, mixing genes that should never have been. They


    had pups that was never predetermined. And then there was Luna Bet.”


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