Falling in love with my Ex's Alpha Chapter 169: Book 2 - Chapter 2

I can't believe this is finally happening!

Goddess Selena is in front of me! Even though I see her just a few inches away, I still can't believe it. It's so surreal! Her presence automatically silences everything around us, and I just hear the wind between the leaves, swaying the trees.

"Is that really you?" I ask. She is so pure, so majestic, that I feel unworthy to be in her presence.

I try to move, but my body doesn't seem to move. I continue to kneel, looking at her with my utmost devotion.

"Please, Goddess Selena, show me what my purpose is! All I want is to serve you!" I beg.

I just want answers. I just want to know if the royal prophecy is true, if I am, in fact, the heir of the prophecy...

However, she doesn't answer me. She continued looking at me as if she were analyzing me. My every move. I hold my breath and puff out my chest. I don't want her to think I'm weak.

I've always had rigorous training with Dad and Uncle Chad, and I'm proud to say that I've won several fights, facing both of them at the same time.

I have done my part to be a good leader, a good warrior, a good son.

I don't know what else to do to be worthy of the glory that the royal prophecy promised.

Her silence makes me anxious, and I feel like I am squandering any opportunity she may offer me through her watchful eyes.

Not that I can look into her eyes for long. Her eyes look like two bright full moons, the glow is so intense that it's almost impossible to keep looking at them.

I take a deep breath, feeling disheartened by her lack of response.

Maybe she expected more from me.

Perhaps I'm not enough for her.

I lower my head and close my eyes, accepting defeat. However, I hear her voice say gently, each word touches me like a summer breeze, "Your purpose transcends this realm. It aligns with a grander design beyond your current perception."

I repeat her words in my head at least three times before responding. "What do you mean by that?"

I think that she knows me and all my thoughts, so she knows very well that I need her to give me more *details*. Maybe it's my gossipy side speaking, but I need her to explain precisely what she means. These few enigmatic words only make me more anxious.

When she doesn't respond, I try another approach, "*Oh*, Goddess Selena, please tell your servant more of your *great* plan," I lower my head in worship, touching the floor with the palm of my hand. I couldn't help myself, and I smiled, feeling like an idiot.

I can't even believe I'm doing this. In my defense, there is no way in any book how to address a Goddess. I hope this is enough for her.

I don't know what if she decides that I don't deserve to live and erase my existence just because I failed to show her enough reverence to enhance her greatness.

After I don't hear anything from her for a while, I dare to lift my head just enough for my eyes to see what she's doing.

However, I immediately lower my head back when I see her looking at me intently with a motherly smile on her face; it somehow reminds me of my mother's warm smile. Everything around her is even brighter.

"Look at me, my little wolf," she says softly, and I lift my eyes back to her heavenly figure, waiting eagerly for her to continue, "Your destiny is much greater than any prophecy," she says with a gentle face as though she already knew the future. Well, I imagine that as a Goddess, she must already know.

Her simple smile fades a little as she continues, "Upon failure, all that dwells within your heart shall wane," my heart skips a beat, but I keep looking at her without blinking, "upon triumph, however, boundless rewards shall grace your path," she says softly as if that were enough for me to understand everything she's saying, all her plan.

When she doesn't continue, I dare to say, "But I already have everything... I don't need anything else."

Not that I'm being ungrateful for the great path she has for me, but what more could I want? I have nothing to complain about. I have everything I need.

"What I'm going to give you is something bigger than you conceive. But for that, you will have to find the way alone, and it won't be easy."

Her words touch my body like a blanket, "Will you be by my side?" I ask apprehensively.

She smiles at me again, and everything around her seems to shine brighter. "I always look after my wolves. Yet, your fate depends on you."

Her celestial form starts to diminish, and immediately, I start to feel more distressed. I need more answers. I need her to tell me what I need to do–

"You will find your answers in time," she interrupts my thoughts, her soft voice speaking in my head as if she has mindlinked me.

Her celestial form begins to fade and fade, and she begins to enter the sacred tree, the one that can grant wishes, above the small, aged and broken door, but the letters 'A + N' are still visible.

"Wait!" I scream and get up in a hurry and go to where her figure is already disappearing. One by one, the souls of the wolves around her enter the tree.

I still have so much to ask her! This was genuinely the most minimal exchange of words I've ever experienced in a conversation!

However, it doesn't matter how much I run to her. I can't stop her from disappearing inside the sacred tree, causing the darkness to return more and more around me without her glow.

Halfway there, my slippers end up falling off, and I don't even care. I just want to get to her before she disappears.

However, when my hands touch the sacred tree, the Goddess Selena is no longer there. My shoulders slump in dismay.

I feel the rough texture of the tree trunk over my fingers, and out of nowhere, the tree trunk starts to glow around my hand.

I gaze at the radiance with curiosity.

Is Goddess Selena coming back?

Maybe she realized that her instructions weren't that clear.

However, instead of Goddess Selena coming out of the tree trunk, I am being pulled into it, my desperation growing as my body is dragged faster and faster. Suddenly, all the bright light around me turns into darkness.

Out of nowhere, my body was back where it had been, out of the tree. But I can't see clearly what's around me.

All the warmth of spring is replaced by a freezing cold that certainly feels more like winter.

Around me, all the trees are without the vibrant green leaves of the season.

A sharp pain shoots through my heart, and I clutch my chest with a groan of pain.

'Khai! What's going on? Where are you?' I try to talk to my wolf, but he doesn't answer me.

My knees touch the snowy ground because I can't stand the pain anymore. I put both my hands on my head because the overwhelming pressure I'm feeling is too much.

I see all my memories of my entire life like a sped-up movie, playing at five times the normal speed. I feel everything slipping away, and I start to cry.

"No! Please! Don't take this from me! No!!" I scream desperately.

I start to forget things that I'm crying about, but I don't remember what they are anymore!

I close my eyes, trying to concentrate and hold on desperately to the memories that are being taken away from me.

*"You can go with your father, but behave yourself, my little chatterbox!"*

*"Well done, Nox! You're getting stronger every day, son!"*

I hear my wolf howling, crying out for me as if he feels like it, too, is being erased. I visualize in my mind memories of my mother and father holding my hands and smiling at me; my happy and colorful kingdom, the happy members... everything.

I feel confused and frustrated. My desperate scream begins to subside as I realize that crucial memories are fading from my mind.

*What is going on?!*

Anguish invades my entire body, but I can no longer understand why I'm feeling this way.

Suddenly, nothing is on my mind anymore, and tears fall from my eyes without stopping.

I feel like I forgot something important, but I don't know what it is. I feel fear and apprehension, and suddenly, I can't even remember my name.

I rest my head on the ground, feeling alone. I feel the coldness of the snow against my skin, but nothing else seems to matter.

Tears continue to fall from my eyes but without purpose. I don't know why I'm crying.

My mind goes blank. Empty.

I can't even seem to remember how to think.