Chapter 96
-Dorothy-
The party was still going on when Ignatius and I slipped away to take a walk along the beach in the
dark. Ignatius had carried me on his back down a small, narrow pathway in the cliffs and then two of us
stepped onto the cold sand in our wedding
allire.
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My dress billowed in the breeze and Ignatius had pulled his the loose, ditching his jacket on the sand
and taking my hand in
his
The sounds of the party atop the cliffs echoed down to us as we walked along the pale sand and stared
at the dark roaring waters of the sea. Salty spray rained over us with cach crashing wave and the moon
beamed down over us, bathing the entire stretch of sand in a silver glow,
Ignatius and I were quiet at first, enjoying thefortable silence and exhausted by all the socializing
we had done in the past few hours. The children had slozed off ages ago and had been carried away to
be tucked into bed in the small cottage on the property..
Ellias had tried his best to keep his eyes open but his head lolled to the side as I had carried him away
from the dance floor. Amelie hadHaken initiative and she was found curled up on top of her father’s
jacket, already dozing amidst the ruckus of the party.
When Ignatius finally spoke it caught me by surprise. His whispered words were almost swept away by
the wind. “Do you think we’ll be together forever?”
I pulled a tendril of hair from where it had been swept into my face and k*ssed him. “I’m not going
anywhere without you, that’s for sure.”
“I mean like, in a different life. Our souls. Do you think we’ll find each other again?”
“I don’t doubt that for a second. I wouldn’t be surprised if it has happened already. His cool hand in
mine squeezed tighter at my words. “I think we’ve known each other for a very long time.”
Music andughter trickled down the cliffs like rain over our heads Ignatius ran his hands over my
shoulders and k*ssed me in the dark. “You look beautiful by the way. When I saw youing down the
aisle I thought I was going to die on the spot”
“Oh shush, you’ve just had too much champagne.”
“I mean it, Dorothy. I love you. I’ve never loved anything or anyone the way I love you.”
I was quiet for a moment before I answered him, “I think I loved you from the day we met. I think we’ll
be together forever. I know we already gave our vows but I promise that to you now!
Ignatius pulled me towards him and wrapped his arms around my waist. “I couldn’t be happier with our
growing little family.”
And growing it was. After the wedding, Rita had pulled me aside to tell me that she had discovered
something important. I followed her away from the dancing and celebrating and we sat down on a
bench in a quiet spot in the garden.
Rita had been teary-eyed through the entire ceremony and her eyes were brimming with tears once
again. She had taken. my hands in her rough one and whispered her words to me, I’ve been following
up on some leads, Ignatius told me that he once met a healer who seemed to know a lot about our old
pack and your healing abilities:
I tilted my head in question, not following where she was going with this information. “What kind of
leads? I don’t understand.”
Kita looked down at my hands in her and ran a finger over the Peridot ring that twin kled in the yellow
glow of the candles. that had been lit around the garden. Fairy lights twi nkled in the trees and the
golden ribbons dazzled in the dark
“Not all of the Silvanne Pack was wiped out, Dorothy. I found some survivors. They managed to escape
the attacks and lett
the country entirely afterward.”
I could only stare at her with my mouth o open. To know that there were members of my original pack
somewhere out there was aforting thought, to know that not everyone had fallen because of our
enemy’s attempts to get to me..
“There’s more though,” Rita murmured. “I got in contact with them. And they know a lot about the
healers. Healers like you and your mother. The bloodline is notpletely gone. Aside from you, there
are others living overseas in ces as far as Asia. But they’re alive. And they might know how to
prolong your own life and that of your children,”
It had been a sore topic up until that point, the fear that my unique abilities would be passed down to
my children, dooming them to a short life like mine.
While I had tried to ignore the fate that awaited me and chose instead to preserve my powers for as
long as possible thus prolonging my life, Ignatius and Rita refused to give up on their searching for
answers. And now, it had apparently paid off.
I touched a hand to the silver strand in my hair. “What now? How do we find them I can’t exactly drop
everything and backpack around Asia looking for answers.
“No, you can’t.” Rita winked at me as she spoke. “But I’ve always wanted to go traveling.
“Really! Rita, I can’t ask you to do that for me!” My eyes were wide and I held her hands in myp, “You
don’t even have the same abilities, it’s not your burden to bear.”
But the olddy wouldn’t listen to me. She folded me in a tight embrace and promised to be back by the
time our third child came along. I had no idea what she was talking about then because Ignatius and I
had both decided it would be a very long wait if we ever were to have any more children,
She told me to be strong and brave as I always had been and then she sent me back to enjoy the
celebrations without another word on the subject. Rita had set off a few days after the wedding and we
were all sad to see her go.
Standing there on the sand, I told Ignatius everything and he listened with a furrowed brow. A smile
broke out the thought of there possibly being a way to break the curse or blessing that I had inherited.
In his excitement he lifted me into the air and swirled me around on the windswept beach, my dress
billowin like a flower unfurling
After Ignatius had finally calmed down, he let my feet touch the door again and held me close to him.
We stood t Jong time in that embrace and the wind howled around us and the sea hushed and trickled
across the shores.
“Do you still get nightmares?” Ignatius lips were close to my ears, whispering into my hair so the wind
could not steal his words “You don’t wake up panicking like you used to. I just realized that”
I tightened my arms that wrapped around him like a vice. I never wanted to let him go. His scent was
still apparent even with the salty sea air surrounding us and the ocean itself rained seafoam over our
heads
My dress was getting wet as the rushing tide closed in but I didnt mind in the slightest. The cold clear
water rushed over our bare feet and the sand sunk a little beneath us, sealing us in ce like we were
always meant to stay.
“No, I don’t get those had dreams anymore,” I answered him and then looked up to touch my nose to
his. “I still dream though. All the time. But these are good dreams, pleasant dreams. I’m still running
through the woods. Only this time there is no creature stalking me and no snapping jaws leaping out of
the dark.
“This time the moonlight shines down through the trees as I run, And my family is running by my side.
You and Tor, the children and their future wolves who I can’t wait to meet. Nothing is chasing us, we’re
running for the fun of it. It’s a beautiful dream. And I don’t doubt that it will be a reality one day.””
There was no time for me to continue, Ignatius’ hips met mine and they tasted of the sea. I curled my
fingers in his hair as the wind howled around us in the night like its own kind of dark wolf. It swept my
hair into a frenzy of bright red locks and my dress whipped and flowed in the wind.
It urred to me then, as hey me down on the soli sand and preled my damp dress from my b*dy,
that we had lived on the cliffs for some time by then, and yet we had never bothered to explore each
other on the wide empty stretch of sand and