Chapter 36

Daniel reached out across the space between the driver’s and passenger’s seats and took his mate’s hand. He spoke softly, gently to her as he gave her hand a soft squeeze. “It’ll happen, Sara. When the time is right. You know it will.”

Sara blinked away her own tears and nodded. “I know. You’re right. I know. I’ve seen them. I’ve seen them and they’re beautiful. I just want it to be here. I thought it would have happened long ago, but it just hasn’t.”

“The time just hasn’t been right. That’s all. Luna knows when the time is right and when it is, maybe you’ll have three at once. Or four. Or five even. That one lady in the papers a while back, what she had like eight at once?” Daniel gave Sara a wide-eyed look designed specifically to make her laugh.

It had just the right effect and Sara gave a tearful little giggle. He knew how to make her laugh. He always had.  It was one of the things that she loved most about him. Out of nowhere, a vision gripped her and her body became tense. Her head jerked back and a sharp gasp of air sucked into her lungs as if she’d been doused with icy water.

Wolves gathered around in a large forest clearing. Some in human form, some in their fur. The moon was high in the sky and every one of them surrounded a large dais that rose several feet into the air. It looked as if it might have been carved out of an ancient tree stump. A figure dressed in white slowly climbed the steps that had been carved into one side of the tree stump.

 It was as if Sara was flying above it all, watching as events unfolded below. She had never in her life seen so many of her kind gathered together in such numbers. There were hundreds of them, maybe even closer to a thousand. Certainly over a thousand when the mates were included in it all. She could see the mystical connection between them all. They were connected by a string of brilliant white light. A mystical bond shared between all wolves. Those that were mates were connected only to their mate but their connection was a light of a beautiful blue-white in color.

The woman standing on the dais lifted her hands and smiled at the group before her.

Sara flew around in the vision and moved in closer so that she could focus on the woman standing upon the dais. When she moved in close, she could see the red hair and the deep green eyes. The moment she learned the woman’s identity, the entire vision rippled and faded away.

Sara’s whole body jerked and she slumped back in her seat. Her visions always took a lot out of her when they happened. They could come upon her at any moment without any kind of warning. That was part of the reason why Daniel always did the driving along with the fact that Daniel enjoyed the task of driving while she did not.

After about five minutes, she finally lifted her head and smiled tiredly when she found Daniel casting worried glances in her direction. They’d been together for more than eighteen years and yet he still worried for her each and every time a powerful vision took her. Sara shifted her body over and settled into the floor between the two seats and leaned her head against her mate’s side, wrapping one arm across his waist in a sort of half-hug. “I’m alright, Daniel. It was just a particularly vivid and powerful one. That’s all.”