59 Reunion…

Miriam (Nanny)

My heart skipped a beat, my eyes flickered towards Mother Liora who was silent.

“Although the council is not complete as the other Priestesses are on a mission outside the pack we, here are the seven cardinals needed in decision making and also with the authority of the High Priestess.” Priestess Tania continued.

Mother Liora nodded and finally stepped forward. Her expression was calm but her eyes were filled with something I couldn’t quite place.

“First of all, Miriam. I am more disappointed in you than anyone in this hall. Not only did you deceive me, I feel responsible for aiding your escapades but why should we punish you when the man who put you in this situation is allowed to roam free? He knew who

the guts to defile you?”

you were and still, he had

“That’s why I wanted her to give us his name,” Priestess Tania sucked her teeth, “Not only does he deserve a good beating but he needs to be stripped of his title and his position given to another.”

My eyes misted with tears as I stared at the women in the hall. None of them had judgments in their eyes. Yes, they were disappointed and angry with me, but they didn’t think it was my fault entirely.

I couldn’t have felt more loved.

grow into the woman you are now. And I cannot

will carry the child to term and when you give birth to it, you will give it away. I and the Priestesses would look for a couple deserving of the child and

spared.”

should be

life will be

and had even come to terms with it in some strange way. But this, I didn’t. know how to feel. I was neither relieved,

not waste it. Also, all these women in this hall

Present Day

the same. It was as though time had slowed down within the walls of the temple, though. I

59 Reunion….

right now were staring at me with shock

approached me. “Is it

slowly, trying to fight the nostalgia that tightened

the Goddess, you’ve returned to us,” Priestess Tania exclaimed reaching

was surrounded by most of the Priestesses who I grew up with. One by one, they gave me hugs, making

bosom friend announced. “We thought we’d

my voice still filled with

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