Page 57 of My Bad Boy Alpha

The sisters gazed at each other, both suddenly silent.A moment passed, then another.

“You can tell her, sister,” Shivani said.“Because I know you can’t wait.”

Ifa moved closer to me and grasped my hands, her lips curling into a smile.“After our sister died, her spirit was transported into the body of an unborn child.”She paused for another second.“And that child, Zuri, was you.”

My eyes widened.“That means …”

“That you’re a sister of the Moon Goddess.Zuri, the protector.”

CHAPTERTHIRTY-SEVEN

ZURI

“A sister of the Moon Goddess.”The words tumbled out of my mouth, feeling so foreign yet so right.

This explained so much: myvisions, my power, and my strength that I had found here.But I still had so many unanswered questions.

“How can this be?”I whispered.“Why me?Why now?”

Out of all the wolves that could’ve been chosen, out of all the wolves who had been conceived the same day that I was, why had I been the one?I hadn’t been from any special bloodline and certainly shouldn’t have been the first pick.

“Why you?”Shivani asked.“We will never know why our sister’s spirit chose your body, but she must’ve seen the strength inside you to withstand even the harshest blows—emotional, verbal, and physical.”

Ifa nodded.“She definitely did.”

I glanced between the sisters, who stared at me in complete awe, like I was the most beautiful being that they had ever seen.Like I was something mystical and almost unreal.But I was just Zuri.

“I’m nothing special,” I said.

The sisters threw their heads back and giggled with each other, grabbing on to each other’s hands for support and wiping tears of laughter from their eyes.When they finally settled down to small chuckles, they smiled at me.

“Oh, child, you have so much to learn about your powers and your history,” Ifa said.

“If you could only see the past,” Shivani said, “you’d know that you are the most special out of all of us.You’ve protected the werewolf species from hundreds of enemies, during thousands of battles, from envious gods and goddesses.The wolves wouldn’t have survived without you.”

Warmth bubbled in my belly, and I … I didn’t know how to feel.Had all that really happened?I, or more like my spirit, had saved the werewolf species?And I was here to save them again from Derrit and the monsters who supported him.

“Why now?Why haven’t I had this power since birth?”I asked.

“Honestly,” the sisters said together, “we don’t know.”

“But I felt something special inside you materialize once you met Stone,” Ifa said.

“So, why do you want me to have pups?Will they help defeat him?”

“Usually, when a she-wolf is pregnant, her body becomes stronger to prepare for the child.Her powers are somewhat … magnified.So, we believe that it will be the same for you.Your powers will become stronger than they are now.”

“And”—Ifa giggled—“I can’t wait to be an aunt!”

Shivani playfully waved her hand in dismissal.“Don’t listen to her.”

“Oh, come on,” Ifa said, rolling her eyes.“We’ve sat up talking to the stars about how much we want to have a bigger family that is one of our own, just like our wolves and our creations do.”

After leaning against Ifa’s shoulder and intertwining their fingers, Shivani smiled softly at me.“We do want to add more to our family.It has only been us three sisters for thousands of years.You’re the first one of us who can get pregnant.”

“How do you know I can get pregnant?”I asked.“If all of you haven’t been able to …”

“Because you’re the first one of us to be able to have a mate,” Ifa said.

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