Damien's pov.
I took a walk to the witch hut after I met with that strange girl, what was her name again? Yea, Ava. She had a nervous look but she was cute, one of the most beautiful I've seen for a girl her age, but she is way younger than me and it's even disgusting thinking of it.
Celine and I are getting serious, I would probably marry her. Not that she was special but I needed to settle down soon since I'm turning forty one soon. I would need a back up heir as well.
I got to the witch hut faster than I imagined, probably because my mind was busy.
"My alpha." She bowed in respect and I gestured for her to raise her head.
She offered me a seat and I sat down. "I need to know if I would come back alive." I didn't beat around but went straight to the point. I always consult her so that, if I was not coming back alive I would be able to set some things straight in the pack and since I had no heir yet, I would have to ordain Mason as the next alpha and tell him to stay behind this time.
"Give me your hand." She said after washing her face in a murky looking kind of water.
After giving her my hand she rubbed it and in a second she dropped it. That was unusual, I wanted to ask what was happening but she went into a trance, her head went up unwillingly and her mouth opened to scream but no sound came out.
"What is..."
"Calm down." A different voice spoke to me, this was the same witch but something else told me that it was not her anymore in that body. "I have a command for you."
It was the moon goddess, immediately I realized I bowed completely and said nothing, I wouldn't dare look at her.
"To come back alive you must do one thing." She paused, touched my head, and continued "You have a great end. But that end is not now. You must mate and mark a girl, she is not of the pack but you need her powers to win the war. She is special, the most beautiful in the pack but her beauty is covered by the pain, suffering, and stress of her past before she found a pack to settle in." She pauses, making me stop to think.
"Her eyes are like the moon with a flaming heart in her pupils, her hair is as delicate as the feathers of a dove but wild as an eagle, the piano blonde of her locks represent the mixture of her blood."
I didn't completely understand her because she spoke in idioms, but I took her words as what I would need to think deeply about later. It was like a puzzle she needed me to figure out. Although I could understand a bit of the real piano color of the hair, as for the part about blood I was completely lost.
"She has lived twenty years of her life and will live greater, find her, mate her, and mark her. This is the process for peace to slowly walk into our word."
Peace?, I wanted to ask if it's possible for peace to even come, and how, but I dare not question the moon goddess. If peace is going to reign how can I complain?
My head was still bowed and I didn't look up until I heard my name.
"Alpha Damien." The witch called me, it was the witch voice this time.
I raised my head and cleared my throat, that was awkward.
"The moon goddess possessed me, I'm sorry I didn't warn you. I didn't also get a warning." She apologized.
"It's okay, do you know what she said? I can't remember everything. She spoke in riddles of sorts."
"Let me see." The witch took a brush, an ink, and a big sheet of paper that resembled a scroll. She wrote everything, word for word, and rolled it before handing it over to me.
"Thanks."
"You will understand everything when you think deeply about it." She said and rose from her seat.
I gave her a nod and stood up after her.
When I got outside it was raining but I hadn't noticed it when I was inside. I stepped away from the hut, and the ground was dry, meanwhile, the ground close to the hut was wet. Something else surprised me as I moved on. The rain stopped and the cloud that gathered like a storm dispersed and everything went back to normal. I'm guessing that was the effect of the moon goddess leaving her celestial world for the human world.
On getting to my house, a picture of the girl I had met in the woods during the twilight came to my mind and I shook it off, wondering what type of strange thing that was.
As I saw Celine coming to greet me when I entered the house, realization struck me and I remembered a few details of the mate the moon goddess commanded me to mark, the description was nothing like Celine.
Celine was a dark-haired lady with white flawless skin and a slim model-like shape, she was a beauty but according to the moon goddess, this said girl was the most beautiful in the pack. I wondered if she would be ugly in reality, but as long as it leads to peace it doesn't matter.
"Damien, are you even listening to me?." I bet she had been trying to get my attention and I was lost in thought.
"I'm sorry, there is something important that I need to tell you," I said.
"Can it wait till tomorrow, I'm kind of horny and I've been waiting for you to get home." She bit her lower lips and put her hands around my neck.
Tempting, really tempting but the picture of that young girl kept blurring my thoughts, I didn't even take a good look at that girl, I can't remember what she looked like in general, I only knew she had a nervous expression on her face and that was all. Now I wonder what was up with my mind.
I moved my head out of the direction of the kiss Celine was about to give me. "Is something wrong?" She had a worried expression on her face.
"Emm no, but I need you to understand. We can't..."I said, my voice firm.
"Are you breaking up with me?" Her voice cracked.
"I'm sorry, but it's the only way for..." I said again and she interrupted me.
"I expected it, you don't need to explain. You gave me hope and thought, you made me feel like I was the one. The fucking one!" She screamed at me, her voice cracking at the end.
I don't think I made her feel anything special, I treated her the same way how I treated all my other exes before breaking up with them but she didn't know, I don't blame her.
"Who will it be next? Mia? Jenny? Caroline? who?." The tears in her eyes dropped but I didn't mind, it's the usual and I'm used to it. "You'll end up old with no heir if you keep this up." Her voice changed.
"Damien, you have to marry me. Let's make an heir for you. I will do whatever you want, I'll not make any mistakes, I'll be perfect. I'm perfect!"
I never liked her confidence, it was too fake. "I'm not changing my mind, just leave." I used a commanding tone.
The effect made her bow and compose herself "Yes alpha." She replied.
Celine was just like the other women I've dated in the past, with the same age range of thirty five and thirty eight, they had the same slim shape in common, perfect faces, and straight dark hair like mine, I never liked blond girls. My exes were almost the same, nothing special about them. I wonder if this person whom the moon goddess wants me to marry will be the same thing.
The picture of that young girl came to my mind again and I noticed how wide and wavy her hair was, "I must be going insane." I shook it off my mind and after Celine took her things to leave I shut the door and went to my room.
I showered and got ready for bed, then I remembered the scroll. I sat on my bed and opened it to read.
I read the ending out loud like I was trying to figure it out. "Her eyes are like the moon with a flaming heart in her pupils," She might have bright gray eyes and dark reddish pupils, I guessed, and continued "Her hair is as delicate as the feathers of a dove but wild as an eagle, the piano blonde of her locks represent the mixture of her blood." She probably had a wavy feather type of hair and its color might be mixed with dark blonde and light blonde, I doubt there is yet a werewolf female that could have that kind of hair, but I know humans wear wigs of that kind. And if this concerns mixed blood, could it be a black skin mum and a white dad? My mind was swallow at this point, I didn't know any better.
"She has lived twenty years of her life..." I completed the reading and sighed "Does this mean it's a very young girl, dammit that is crazy." I ran my hands through my hair, thinking of it made me feel irritated.
Who can this girl be...I took a minute to recall all the young girls I'd seen in this pack.
"Ava." My mind went blank.