SHE IS THE MOTHER. THE MYTH. THE LEGEND

HERTH LOCKWOOD:

“Okay, your story sounds like a damn lie, Herth.” Gideon chuckled, looking away.

“You’ve had too much of that vintage bourbon. You are seeing ghosts.” I didn't blink. I sat behind my desk, my hands clasped on my chest.

I knew how it sounded. I knew the history. But the fire currently burning in my veins wasn't the alcohol. It was her.

“The Genesis wolves are extinct, Herth. They have been gone for two centuries,” Gideon uttered refusing to see logic in what I had said.

“Their disappearance was the Moon Goddess’s final judgment. She is done with us. She is letting us fade into humans. You know the law of the Nuart, we are products of science now and Alpha genes, not spirit. Not some goddess.”

I stood up, my movement slow when I reached for my collar, unbuttoning the top three studs and tilting my head to the side for him to see.

“Look at it, Gideon. Truly look at the mark she had given me,” I commanded and he turned to me, shaking his head.

He stepped forward, his breath hitching when his eyes shifted to it. In our world, the "mark" was a myth. Modern werewolves were too weak to pierce the skin of a mate; our souls were too muffled by artificial breeding to connect that much.

“You… you found a tattoo artist who knows how to engrave a bite mark ?” Gideon whispered, reaching out to touch it.

“It is impossible.“ His eyes went wide as his fingers traced the bite.

“She bit me, Gideon. And for the first time in forty-five years, I felt something shift in me,” I said, my mind tracing back to that moment. It was life-changing. Breathtaking. The kind of moment I had only ever read about in the book of old. Ancient wolves possessed great power, ability to mark and find their mate, while we barely possess any, we could only get the experience from books.

“She’s the Legend. The saviour. The mother. The myth. The literal goddess in human form.” Gideon ran a hand through his hair, pacing again. He did this when he was either upset or conflicted.

“If words gets out that a True Birth wolf is walking the streets, the Council will hunt her. Every Alpha on the continent will go to war to claim her. She is the redemption of our race, Herth. She is the only way to stop the 'End' - the day we finally lose our ability to shift and become nothing.”

“That is why we find her first,” I said, my eyes scanning the desk for my key.

Then, I frowned realizing the space where my watch usually sat was empty. A dark, amused smirk tugged at my lips.

“And it seems our little Savior has a bit of a devious act. She stole the Patek you gave me.” Gideon stopped dead. A slow, knowing grin spread across his face.

“The one with the internal GPS I insisted on installing because you are a target for every assassin in the city?”

“The very one.”

Gideon didn't waste another second. He grabbed his tablet, his fingers flying across the screen as he accessed the private server.

“She is a Genesis wolf and a thief? My kind of girl. I am pulling the signals now.”

“Yeah, because your first love stole from you right,” I said, clearly mocking him. He ignored me and continued with the tablet.

I sat back, smiling as the memory of her touch washing over me like a tidal wave returned.

She had looked so ordinary at first, but the moment our skin met, everything changed.

That night, her eyes changed color. They had depth, the kind no man could ever forget. She was so tight, my cock could barely go all the way through.

Her legs had wrapped around me tightly, and her fingers traced my skin like I was some art she was trying to memorise. I swear it wasn't just sex. My cock was deep into her when she bit me and I thought it was the spur of the moment, until the next day, I woke up with a full-blown mark. It terrified me at first, until I ran back home and grabbed the book of old. It was the same mark they told us about.

She had left before I woke up hence I couldn't question her. Perhaps I should have held her down, tied her to my bed to make sure she didn't run.

Okay, I wasn't going to act like some obsessive Alpha but I could feel every part of me burning with need for her. The thought of another man laying his hands on her repelled me.

“Gideon, status,” I barked, growing impatient now.

“The connection is spotty. It’s an encrypted signal, and the server is lagging,” Gideon muttered, his eyes glowing blue.

“Wait… it is stabilizing. I am triangulating the coordinates now.” Gideon continued while I felt my heart throb. Okay, I needed to chill. My heart shouldn't be pounding for a girl I had barely met.

“Got her,” Gideon said, meeting my eyes before both our gaze returned to the screen.

“Uhm, she is spotted in the academy.”He sat up, looking much more serious now

“Mine?” I asked and he nodded.

My heart skipped.

“Sophia’s college? Are you telling me she is a college student?” I asked, raising my gaze and then Gideon nodded. The bastard was trying to hold his laughter.

“What?” I growled at him.

“Well, you just slept with a college student, probably around your daughter’s age. Can’t believe your first love is a college student, about twenty two years old, whooping twenty three years gap.”He laughed.

“Fuck you!” I raised my middle finger at him.

“At least my first love is not a thief!” I teased and he snatched my keys from the table and threw it at me. I dodged, running out of my office before he caught up to me.

Pictures of Sophia and myself and Gideon filled the hallway. We were three little family and I guess she was about to join. Would Sophia like her?

What could her life be like? Would her family let her go with me? Damn, my heart was racing now.

“What is your plans with her though?”Gideon asked, catching up with me as we passed a frame that had all three of us in.

“I don’t know, man. I am way older than she is.” I hissed, clenching my fist.

“She is a powerful genesis wolf. The mother. A goddess in wolf form, pretty sure her age is just a number. She has a bigger destiny than the two of us combined.”

Gideon was right.

That relieved me a bit.

I got into the driver’s seat and Gideon did too, reading the book we have about our little saviour.

“But you know, history has it that when a Genesis wolf is born, an infernal wolf is also born.”

“What is an infernal wolf?” It was the first time I was hearing it, even though I read a lot of history.

“An evil counterpart. Genesis wolf are meant to save, they are the complete opposite. Here to destroy and stop the Genesis wolf from fulfilling their destiny.”

I ignited the car.

“It say here that the Genesis wolf and Infernal wolf have no difference, except good and evil. What a Genesis wolf can do, an infernal can also do.”

My gaze shifted to the book just before I zoomed into the street. “Which means an Infernal could have also marked you. Let’s just pray we have the right now.”

Damn!