Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

Chapter 16

“Violet? Like the color of Kas's eyes?" Ashley asks. Her voice is thick with skepticism.

 

“Yeah, Ashley, other than the flower, there are not a whole lot of definitions of violet,"

 

Lenora teases.

 

Reggie looks up from the book he's referencing, 'Kas, what did you say your dad's name was?”

 

“Andy. Why?”

 

Reggie nudges Bronx who leans over the book and reads aloud, "Selene was so enamored with the way Endymion looked while he was sleeping in a cave on Mount Latmus that she asked Zeus to allow her to have a relationship with him. Oh, holy shit.”

 

“Mount Latmus? Like my last name?" I'ma bit confused.

 

“Kas, what if Andy is like some sort of shortened, modernized version of Endymion. Endy, Andy. What if the Moon Goddess turned him into a werewolf? Because that's what she does right? What if she turned him into the first werewolf?" Reggie starts theorizing. Lenora and Ashley stand behind him with wide -eyed disbelief.

 

I blink a couple of times as he throws out questions and until I burst out laughing. Like, a maniacal villain who lost their mind in the middle of the movie, laughing. I'm laughing so hard that I can't catch my breath, my belly hurts, and tears are coming out of my eyes. Everyone is looking at me like maybe I lost my marbles. 2

 

is a whole lot more realistic than it all being connected in some sort of ancient greek conspiracy theory. The Moon Goddess, my actual mother? A painting of me as a baby i nan ancient book of werewolf lore? My name in this book is MY name and not just a reference to the color purple or an ancient queen? My dad is

 

a happy yell, but quickly quiets down when he sees the look

 

point," Ashley nods. She takes me by the elbow out into the office, everyone follows. 2 We sit around the

 

Lenora asks while she pulls extra cheese out of the bottom of

 

to figure out who I am before we can shift. We have to make sure it's

 

thousand six hundred and eighty-two years old, I think. I've kind

 

“Lex, be serious.”

 

would I joke about

 

she is over four thousand years old.” Ashley spits out her water. Milo

 

no idea how much longer. Everyone else asks their wolves how old they are. Saint is the oldest at eight

 

many human spirits have

 

forever in the future. Don't you remember?" She sounds kind

 

over and over for

 

I'm talking to Lex, Bronx is talking to the others, "If Kas was a goddess, she would be thousands of years old. She's only seventeen years old. We know she got to the Silver Moon when

 

if I was

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