Page 74 of My Bad Boy Alpha

“Ifa,” the other said, “you literally paired Zuri with him as mates.”

The other rolled her eyes.“For mating and babies!Not for seeing us in our true form.”

I cleared my throat.“I’m still here.”

The older, skinnier sister sat at my bedside.“I’m Shivani, and that’s Ifa.We’re Zuri’s sisters.”

“And your goddesses,” Ifa said.

Shivani rolled her eyes again.“Don’t mind her.She loves being dramatic.”

“I do not!”Ifa said, throwing up her arms.“I just want to know why he can see us.”

“He can see us because, now, he is worthy, sister,” Shivani said.“Stop it.”

After moving closer to me, Ifa looked into my eyes and placed her fingers inches from my face.The pain began evaporating from my head, as if being drawn out, and then a black mist began rising from my skin and swirling in the air.Shivani’s eyes widened.

“What is it?”I asked.

“The Dark One.He’s here.”

“The Dark One?”I repeated after they didn’t continue explaining.

Where had I heard that name before?It sounded so familiar.

Shivani grabbed Ifa’s hand.“We must tell Zuri.”

Before either of them could run off to find my mate and tell her anything, I snapped my hand around Ifa’s wrist and yanked her back.The black mist wrapped around her forearm like a rope, one I wasn’t controlling.

“What is it?”I asked.

The door reopened, and Zuri stopped in her tracks with water in her hand and a doctor behind her.The doctor’s eyes widened, and she shuffled backward.

“What happened to him?He looks like?—”

“The Dark One,” Shivani said to Zuri, “is here.”

“He never dies,” Ifa said, her flesh burning underneath the mist.

I released her wrist, and the mist swarmed back into my body.

“Just as gods and goddesses never die, the Dark One doesn’t either,” Ifa continued.“His spirit moves from one body to the next once the time has come.At least, that was the ancient myth that I learned.But when our other sister died, I don’t know… I didn’t think it was possible.I didn’t have hope in it anymore.”

“W-what else does the myth say?”Zuri asked.

My throat dried, and suddenly, Grandma Bee’s prophecy finally made sense.She had talked about a goddess and a dark spirit saving our pack from all the evil, the prophecy that she had seen in her dreams since she had been a girl.

“If the Dark One doesn’t see that a body is fit for him, he leaves it behind,” I finished.

“Derrit wasn’t contracted with the Dark One,” Shivani whispered, as if it all made sense.

“Derritwasthe Dark One,” Ifa whispered.

I stared down at my tattoos that began lifting off my body and forming a dark mist around me.It swirled through the air and then swarmed around Zuri, pieces of it clinging to her and drawing her closer to me.If what they had said was true and if the Dark One had really chosen not to be with Derrit anymore, then that meant …

It had chosen me.

CHAPTERFORTY-NINE

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