The Tripartite Mate Bond Chapter 172: CHAPTER HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO

My heart beat wildly as I followed Zelda to her room, Elena in tow. I could have asked her to go back but she was my friend now, the only genuine one I’ve ever had; I didn’t want to ruin that and besides, maybe she could help me undo this.

Zelda walked as though she had something on fire and it was probably burning; and maybe something was burning, only it was my time on this plane and it’s not like I could touch a switch and everything would go back to normal.

The moment the door closed behind her, she waved her hand above her head, muttering some words.

“A silence spell?” Elena gasped in shock as Zelda kept going, ‘what’s so serious that you need one so strong?”

“You might want to sit down,” I replied, leading her to the small bed that housed Zelda and her little daughter.

Thankfully the girl was in school, her prophecies scared the shit out of me considering my situation. I’d been privy to it once before the war, it was something so tiny and insignificant at the time but if I had listened, I would have avoided getting stung the first time, allowing me to drink the water only after killing the demon but what did she mean by “let him die if he has to?”, even though I hated how Kane treated me, I wasn’t going to let him die just like that but in the end, it cost me so much.

Zelda finished her chants and drew a chair closer to the bed and fixed me with a stare.

“Come on, don’t look at me like that! What on earth do you suggest I do?” I snapped defensively but regretted my tone immediately. She was only trying to help.

“Tell them!” she exclaimed but I rolled my eyes and lay on the bed in exhaustion. I levitated myself off the bed, exasperated.

“Tell who what? Aurora stop floating in the air for a second and put me out of my misery, what’s going on?”

I sighed and sat up and faced her before replying.

“I fully switched to goddess mode, -”

“That’s impossible, you’ve been here for way longer than possible,” she interjected, a look of disbelief on her face.

“I have to make the best out of the little time I have,” I explained but the look on her face showed I was just yapping.

“Aurora, gods that have transcended can’t survive here, you’re like a ticking time bomb,” Elena said, her voice way more emotional than I had expected. Maybe it was not smart to tell her so quickly, Zelda was barely holding it together

“That’s why I called her here, her essence is fading!” Zelda exclaimed with a look of horror on her face.

“Babes, you’re kind of overreacting, it’s just a few lost memories, that's definitely not my ‘essence’,” I made those air quotes while rolling my eyes.

She was definitely taking this out of proportion, my plan was simple, create as many memories as I can with my mate and pack and help them create the new world we needed; even though it was beginning to look like they didn’t need me and with this whole pregnancy thing, everything was confusing but still, Zelda was overreacting, she had to be.

“Wait, you’re losing memories too? Damn, you’re really trying to get me killed,”

“You are involved in this too? Alpha Ares would probably behead you this time. I can imagine him explaining it to your daughter, the wolf will destroy anyone involved in making his mate disappear and don’t even get me started on his twin, he’ll probably chop you to –”

“Okay! Okay! She gets it Elena, jeez! I exclaimed in frustration, thankful for the silence spell in the room, the entire pack would have been so worried about our loud voices. My earlier playful disposition gone

“Look, I won’t lie, I’m looking out for my own head here, the last time I didn’t, I stayed in that filthy dungeon for weeks,” Zelda began, slapping a blob of guilt on my conscience, “but I also really believe it’s better to tell them now, you guys can create these memories together and shorten the time. Trust me, you don’t want to be a weak and new goddess and prolonging your stay here will just make things go badly for you,” she finished, her eyes pleading with me.

Okay, maybe she wasn’t overreacting, shit was getting worse with each word that came out of her mind. I became a goddess by killing someone and as despicable as he was, I knew he’d have friends and who knows what Bez truly felt about me killing his father?

“I totally get you, Zelds, but this was going to be an eternity of boredom, can’t I get at least a few days of living with my soulmate?” I whined and then added the last part a bit forced, “Besides, I’m pregnant,”

“Oh holy Hecate!” Zelda shouted and even though I was the most powerful in this room, I felt like a child whose hands were caught in the proverbial cookie jar, even Elena gave me that look of hers that made it obvious how much she wasn’t pleased with you.

“You can actually raise your child over there, they’ll be half gods anyways so you can still leave tonight,” she said as though we were discussing dresses for prom.

You’re going nuts,” I snapped, ‘tonight? I haven’t even made up with Lyra!”

“That one is completely on you, if you had taken time out to actually talk to her, you could make her understand how much of a choice you didn’t have,” Zelda grumbled, already annoyed with me.

“But it doesn’t have to be this way, right? I mean, I still have one more option,” I said, my voice small. Something told me they wouldn’t be onboard with this idea one bit but I had to try.

But I looked at Zelda and it was like she could read minds because she was already shaking her head

“No,”

“You haven’t even heard me out,” I exclaimed, my hands raised in exasperation.

“Oh I don’t need to but humor me, your majesty, you want to give your powers to a goddess and live out your mortal life and then pick it up afterwards, am I right?”

I rolled my eyes and folded my hands on my chest in annoyance.

“Look, I know you’re relatively new to this world but gods and goddesses are not to be trusted, okay? In maybe a hundred years or more, you’d understand them better but until then, you have to, no, need, you need to leave this world as soon as possible. I mean whose idea was it for you to even stay back?” Elena asked, her tone angrier at the end.

“Selene,” we both responded at the same time.

“The same one that put you through all that hell just so two of her stupid packs could stop fighting? Or do you think all of that was normal?”

“Don’t be ridiculous, Elena, it was fate and my parents, both real and foster were responsible for this,” I grumbled, the idea of what she was suggesting, crazy

“Look, we don’t need to go into that, when she gets there, she’ll find out by herself, for now, we must inform your mates and begin the process for you to go home,” Zelda replied, her tone one of finality but I was already making plans in my head.