Page 60 of My Bad Boy Alpha

“For a run.”

And with that, I pushed through the door and headed into the woods to clear my head.I shifted into my wolf, clothes tearing, and propelled myself through the forest to find Zuri.I needed to be with her right now.

I wouldn’t tell her about the prophecy.No fucking way.I didn’t want her to worry that I would leave her for someone else just so we could defeat Derrit.Fuck the prophecy.We would do it together.

When I spotted her rushing through the woods toward the pack house, I ran over to her and shifted into my human form in front of her.She widened her beautiful brown eyes and ran over to me, placing her head on my chest.

“Stone,” she breathed out, her fingers curling against my chest.

“I’ve been looking for you,” I hummed.“We need to talk.”

She gently shook her head.“I need to tell you something first.”

“What is it?”I asked, but when she dropped her head and a wave of fear rushed through our link, I scooped up her face into my hands and forced her to look at me.“What’s going on, Zuri?What did the Moon Goddess say?”

“She wasn’t the Moon Goddess,” Zuri whispered.

“What?”I growled, canines lengthening.My entire body stiffened, and a hundred thousand ways that I could kill that fucker Derrit played through my mind.“If he fucking hurt you, Zuri, then I’m going to?—”

She glanced up at me and furrowed her brow.“What’re you talking about?”

“Derrit.”

“That woman wasn’t Derrit either,” she said.

Anger slowly subsiding, I shook my head.What was she saying?If she wasn’t the Moon Goddess or Derrit, then who had she been talking to?Had she been lying to me?Was it even a woman?Maybe … I bit back another growl.No, she wouldn’t do that.

Zuri and I were mated.We both fucking felt the bond.

But as the moments passed without her saying anything, all I could think was the worst.

“Why don’t you want to tell me?”I whispered.

“It’s not that I don’t want to tell you,” she said, lips quivering.“I’m scared.”

“About?”

After drawing her fingers up my tattooed arms, she set them on my shoulders and lifted her gaze to meet mine once more.Tears welled in her now-glowing golden eyes, threatening to spill over and down her cheeks.“I don’t want anything to happen to us.”

“Nothing will.”

“You can’t tell anyone,” she whispered.

“You think I’d tell anyone?”

“The Moon Goddess isn’t one entity, like you think she is, but instead, she is three sisters who rule by each other’s sides.One sister for mates.One sister for life and death.One for protection.I’ve been talking to Ifa, the sister of mates, who has bound me to you.”

“Three sisters?”I repeated, confused as hell.

There was no way that the Moon Goddess could be three sisters.We—my pack and every other pack—had prayed to a singular Moon Goddess since the beginning of time.Never had I heard of there being three sisters, even in myths.

“I know.I know …” she said.“I didn’t believe it either at first, but it’s true.”

“What about the other sisters?Have you met them?”

She paused.“Yes, the sister of life and death is named Shivani.I met her today.”

“And the third?Was she there?”I asked because we could really use her to protect all of us from the devil that was Derrit, my asshole brother who I had vowed to murder one day.I would do anything, strike any deal, to have her on our side.

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