Shadows in Moonlight

I poured more champagne and sipped it slower. I still felt a little bad for yelling at Eleanor.

"What are you going to do with two weeks of nothing?"

"I don't know. Travel around the packs? Experience life a bit."

"Find your mate?" she asked, nudging me.

I smiled a bit. "No. I don't even want to think about that right now. I think just doing some traveling will do me good. I have been having this weird feeling lately. Like something is not right."

"Okay, weird."

"There's something else." I pushed my hair out of my face and showed her the moon and bow marking on my forehead.

"Okay, that's weird. What is that?"

"This is going to sound so incredibly crazy and insane. I'm still not sure if it's real or if I was hallucinating. And you have to absolutely swear not to tell anyone!"

"Okay. Pinky promise."

"When I shifted, I went into this black void. The Goddess Benjamin was there."

"I'm sorry...what?"

"I'm not finished. That's not even the craziest part."

"There's more?"

"Uh, yeah, Abigail."

Her eyes were as wide as saucers.

"So, she approaches me and tells me, get this, I'm her daughter."

"We're all Benjamin's daughters and sons."

"No, like her legit daughter. Her child."

"What?"

"Right?" I asked.

"How? You and Eleanor are twins."

"That's where I was confused. But Benjamin said that since mom was pregnant with Eleanor at the time, it was easy to put me there. Since she's a goddess, she couldn't give birth. She said something bad was coming and wanted her child to help save the packs."

"Something bad?"

"Yeah, the feeling I've been getting the past few weeks, what if that's it?"

"And not turning eighteen and shifting for the first time?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "I told you it sounded crazy."

"Are there other children?"

I shrugged my shoulders again. "I don't know. She didn't say there were."

"Maybe there's something in the archives?" she suggested.

"Maybe. I'll go there before setting off on my great adventure."

"I want to adventure."

"Come with me."

"What?" she asked.

"Come with me."

"I don't know. I mean, do you think I should?"

"What are we going to miss? Sitting in class doing nothing for the last few weeks of school?"

"The rest of our finals?"

"There's what, three left? We can do those and then leave. I can postpone taking a few weeks off," I said.

"Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that'll be fun! That'll be awesome." Abigail bounced excitedly on my bed, nearly spilling her glass of bubbly.

"Yeah, it will!"

"Wolves don't travel without their pack though?"

"No, but we're not leaving forever. Just for a little bit."

"Okay. I can do that! Yes!"

We finished drinking the champagne and made our plans for going on an adventure. I hoped that it would be nothing but fun, but that nagging feeling was in the pit of my stomach.

As the sun started to crest the horizon, I heard the jovial sounds of laughter below my window.

"Everyone must be leaving."

I stood and watched as everyone filed out of the house and towards their cars. I spotted Eleanor, hanging onto Jayden as he left. She giggled and kissed him as they walked to his car.

"I hope she just leaves."

She kissed him long and hard before turning back to the house.

"There's that electricity again."

I felt a tingling in my body, and that was so odd. My gaze was drawn to the royal family. Prince Edmond stopped and looked around before looking up at my window.

My throat seemed to suddenly feel so dry. Our eyes met, and the feeling intensified.

"No. It's nothing. You're crazy."

"Who are you staring at?" Abigail called, lying on the bed.

"Oh, nobody. Everyone's just leaving my birthday party."

"Your party! Did you even get cake?"

I shook my head. "I don't really like red velvet cake. That's Eleanor's favorite."

"Let's get some sleep so we can get these plans put into motion!"

"Sounds good."

I lay next to Abigail and talked until the sun was high in the sky, eventually drifting off.