Rejected His Miracle Luna (Dorothy and Ignatius)
Chapter 96

Chapter 96 -Dorothy-

The party was still going on when Ignatius and I slipped away to take a walk along the beach in the dark. Ignatius had carried me on his back down a small, narrow pathway in the cliffs and then two of us stepped onto the cold sand in our wedding

allire.

My dress billowed in the breeze and Ignatius had pulled his the loose, ditching his jacket on the sand and taking my hand in

his

The sounds of the party atop the cliffs echoed down to us as we walked along the pale sand and stared at the dark roaring waters of the sea. Salty spray rained over us with cach crashing wave and the moon beamed down over us, bathing the entire stretch of sand in a silver glow,

Ignatius and I were quiet at first, enjoying the comfortable silence and exhausted by all the socializing we had done in the past few hours. The children had slozed off ages ago and had been carried away to be tucked into bed in the small cottage on the property..

Ellias had tried his best to keep his eyes open but his head lolled to the side as I had carried him away from the dance floor. Amelie had Haken initiative and she was found curled up on top of her father's jacket already dozing amidst the ruckus of the party.

When Ignatius finally spoke it caught me by surprise. His whispered words were almost swept away by the wind. "Do you think we'll be together forever?"

I pulled a tendril of hair from where it had been swept into my face and k*ssed him. "I'm not going anywhere without you, that's for sure."

"I mean like, in a different life. Our souls. Do you think we'll replace each other again?"

"I don't doubt that for a second. I wouldn't be surprised if it has happened already. His cool hand in mine squeezed tighter at my words. "I think we've known each other for a very long time."

Music and laughter trickled down the cliffs like rain over our heads Ignatius ran his hands over my shoulders and k*ssed me in the dark. "You look beautiful by the way. When I saw you coming down the aisle I thought I was going to die on the spot"

"Oh shush, you've just had too much champagne."

"I mean it, Dorothy. I love you. I've never loved anything or anyone the way I love you."

I was quiet for a moment before I answered him, "I think I loved you from the day we met. I think we'll be together forever. I know we already gave our vows but I promise that to you now! Ignatius pulled me towards him and wrapped his arms around my waist. "I couldn't be happier with our growing little family."

And growing it was. After the wedding, Rita had pulled me aside to tell me that she had discovered something important. I followed her away from the dancing and celebrating and we sat down on a bench in a quiet spot in the garden.

Rita had been teary-eyed through the entire ceremony and her eyes were brimming with tears once again. She had taken. my hands in her rough one and whispered her words to me, I've been following up on some leads, Ignatius told me that he once met a healer who seemed to know a lot about our old pack and your healing abilities:

I tilted my head in question, not following where she was going with this information. "What kind of leads? I don't understand."

Kita looked down at my hands in her and ran a finger over the Peridot ring that twin kled in the yellow glow of the candles. that had been lit around the garden. Fairy lights twi nkled in the trees and the golden ribbons dazzled in the dark

"Not all of the Silvanne Pack was wiped out, Dorothy. I found some survivors. They managed to escape the attacks and lett

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the country entirely afterward."

I could only stare at her with my mouth o open. To know that there were members of my original pack somewhere out there was a comforting thought, to know that not everyone had fallen because of our enemy's attempts to get to me..

"There's more though," Rita murmured. "I got in contact with them. And they know a lot about the healers. Healers like you and your mother. The bloodline is not completely gone. Aside from you, there are others living overseas in places as far as Asia. But they're alive. And they might know how to prolong your own life and that of your children,"

It had been a sore topic up until that point, the fear that my unique abilities would be passed down to my children, dooming them to a short life like mine.

While I had tried to ignore the fate that awaited me and chose instead to preserve my powers for as long as possible thus prolonging my life, Ignatius and Rita refused to give up on their searching for answers. And now, it had apparently paid off.

I touched a hand to the silver strand in my hair. "What now? How do we replace them I can't exactly drop everything and backpack around Asia looking for answers.

"No, you can't." Rita winked at me as she spoke. "But I've always wanted to go traveling.

"Really! Rita, I can't ask you to do that for me!" My eyes were wide and I held her hands in my lap, "You don't even have the same abilities, it's not your burden to bear."

But the old lady wouldn't listen to me. She folded me in a tight embrace and promised to be back by the time our third child came along. I had no idea what she was talking about then because Ignatius and I had both decided it would be a very long wait if we ever were to have any more children,

She told me to be strong and brave as I always had been and then she sent me back to enjoy the celebrations without another word on the subject. Rita had set off a few days after the wedding and we were al sad to see her go.

Standing there on the sand, I told Ignatius everything and he listened with a furrowed brow. A smile broke out the thought of there possibly being a way to break the curse or blessing that I had inherited. In his excitement he lifted me into the air and swirled me around on the windswept beach, my dress billowin like a flower unfurling

After Ignatius had finally calmed down, he let my feet touch the door again and held me close to him. We stood t Jong time in that embrace and the wind howled around us and the sea hushed and trickled across the shores.

"Do you still get nightmares?" Ignatius lips were close to my ears, whispering into my hair so the wind could not steal his words "You don't wake up panicking like you used to. I just realized that"

I tightened my arms that wrapped around him like a vice. I never wanted to let him go. His scent was still apparent even with the salty sea air surrounding us and the ocean itself rained seafoam over our heads My dress was getting wet as the rushing tide closed in but I didnt mind in the slightest. The cold clear water rushed over our bare feet and the sand sunk a little beneath us, sealing us in place like we were always meant to stay.

"No, I don't get those had dreams anymore," I answered him and then looked up to touch my nose to his. "I still dream though. All the time. But these are good dreams, pleasant dreams. I'm still running through the woods. Only this time there is no creature stalking me and no snapping jaws leaping out of the dark.

"This time the moonlight shines down through the trees as I run, And my family is running by my side. You and Tor, the children and their future wolves who I can't wait to meet. Nothing is chasing us, we're running for the fun of it. It's a beautiful dream. And I don't doubt that it will be a reality one day."""

There was no time for me to continue, Ignatius' hips met mine and they tasted of the sea. I curled my fingers in his hair as the wind howled around us in the night like its own kind of dark wolf. It swept my hair into a frenzy of bright red locks and my dress whipped and flowed in the wind.

It occurred to me then, as he lay me down on the soli sand and preled my damp dress from my b*dy, that we had lived on the cliffs for some time by then, and yet we had never bothered to explore each other on the wide empty stretch of sand and