Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

“Violet? Like the color of Kas's eyes?" Ashley asks. Her voice is thick with skepticism.

 

“Yeah, Ashley, other than the flower, there are not a whole lot of definitions of violet,"

 

Lenora teases.

 

Reggie looks up from the book he's referencing, 'Kas, what did you say your dad's name was?”

 

“Andy. Why?”

 

Reggie nudges Bronx who leans over the book and reads aloud, "Selene was so enamored with the way Endymion looked while he was sleeping in a cave on Mount Latmus that she asked Zeus to allow her to have a relationship with him. Oh, holy shit.”

 

“Mount Latmus? Like my last name?" I'ma bit confused.

 

“Kas, what if Andy is like some sort of shortened, modernized version of Endymion. Endy, Andy. What if the Moon Goddess turned him into a werewolf? Because that's what she does right? What if she turned him into the first werewolf?" Reggie starts theorizing. Lenora and Ashley stand behind him with wide -eyed disbelief.

 

I blink a couple of times as he throws out questions and until I burst out laughing. Like, a maniacal villain who lost their mind in the middle of the movie, laughing. I'm laughing so hard that I can't catch my breath, my belly hurts, and tears are coming out of my eyes. Everyone is looking at me like maybe I lost my marbles. 2

 

connected in some sort of ancient greek conspiracy theory. The Moon Goddess, my actual mother? A painting of me as a baby i nan ancient book of werewolf lore? My name in this book is MY name and not just a reference to the color purple or an ancient queen? My dad is an ancient Greek king who had fifty daughters with the

 

but quickly quiets down when he sees

 

the elbow out into the office, everyone follows. 2 We sit around the conference table in the back corner of the

 

asks while she pulls extra cheese out of the bottom of

 

“Lex, this is important. We are trying to figure out who I am before we can shift. We have to make sure it's safe for both of us. You want to shift, don't

 

I think. I've kind of lost count because we kept track of time

 

“Lex, be serious.”

 

would

 

thousand years old.” Ashley spits out her water. Milo stops

 

no idea how much longer. Everyone else asks their wolves how old they are. Saint is the oldest at eight hundred twenty -nine years

 

spirits have you been attached

 

through all of your lives. Forever in the past and forever in the future. Don't you remember?" She sounds kind of sad that I don't remember our past

 

I've been reincarnated over

 

talking to Lex, Bronx is talking to the others, "If Kas was a goddess, she would be thousands of

 

I