Werewolf’s Heartsong by Dizzy izzy

Chapter 59: *“...forgive...the unforgivable.”
Alora turned to meet Darien’s gaze, he had a look in his eye that said he couldn’t believe what he had just heard. Alora
swallowed, feeling a little guilty for not telling Darien about the challenge from Matthew.
Darien was not the only one looking at Alora in stunned surprise over who her new challenger was. Jaxon, Mason, Garrett,
Lexus, and Jamison all wore various stunned expressions.
“Did you know he was one of your challengers?” Darien asked.
Alora winced, ducking her head a little. “Yeees.” Alora said, drawing out the word.
Darien’s face scrunched in an expression of confusion. “And you didn’t say anything because....?”
Alora shrugged. “It just didn’t seem important. Besides, it was a last–minute entry.”
Darien frowned, he didn’t know how to feel about this. Obviously, he was worried about Alora, and how this challenge was
making her feel. Before he could say anything more, Alora was up and making her way to the arena floor. Matthew had already
made his way down, after receiving a few very intense stares from Jaxon, Mason, Garrett, Lexus, and Jamison.
The beat of the song Alora had chosen, Andromeda by Dance With the Dead, already blasting out of the stadium speakers. That
right there put Darien’s mind more at ease about the fight. There was no hidden message in this song, as it had no lyries. Then
Darien wondered if maybe Alora’s choice of a lyric–less song was a message in and of itself.
****
Matt felt the questioning stares from the Alpha Class fighters sitting behind him, the feeling had the hair on the back of his neck
rising. The question would be along the lines of, what was he thinking? Why would he issue a challenge he knew he couldn’t
win? Why was he challenging Alora after he rejected her? The answer to all those questions was simple. Matt owed it to Alora.
Matt was very aware that he was in for a beating from Alora, one he felt he deserved. He wanted to apologize to her for what he
did. Even though he felt that no apology would ever be enough for rejecting a gift from the Moon Goddess herself. That was what
Alora had been...a gift. He could never take the rejection back, he could only hope the next male lucky
enough to receive Alora as a fated mate, would treasure her immensely.

Matt made his way to the arena, making it to the platform before Alora. The song she had chosen started out with the sounds of
a thunderstorm, before introducing an electronic beat. He looked up and watched as Alora took her place on the fighter’s
platform in front of him.
He was struck by how beautiful she was, a nearly polar opposite to Sarah. Maybe it was an illusion, a combination of the stadium
lighting and her caramel–colored skin, but her eyes glowed. Regret weighed heavily on his heart.
Ares let out a mournful sound, the loss of what could have been was painful to him. Ares knew why his humanoid form had
chosen to challenge their now formerly fated mate. He agreed with the reason, and felt it would provide them both with the
closure they needed.
****
Alora and Matthew did not start fighting right away, instead Alora studied Matthew with a narrowed gaze as she tried to figure out
why Matthew would challenge her after rejecting her that morning.
“Why would he challenge us? What is his motivation?‘ Alora asked Xena and Selena.
‘I don’t know.‘ Xena responded
‘Maybe he feels guilty for rejecting us?‘ Selena suggested with a questioning tone.
‘You could always ask.‘ Xena offered
Alora agreed with Xena, her gaze still narrowed she tilted her head to the side and asked Matthew. “Why?”
Matthew’s expression spoke of sadness and regret. Making Alora feel Selena was on to
something.
Matt took in a deep breath he let out in a remorseful sigh. “I owe it to you after what I did this morning. It was a disservice to not
only you but our Moon Goddess.”
‘Oh wow.‘ Xena said, stunned.
‘I feel like you should tell him what the Moon Goddess said‘ Selena told Alora.
‘I do too. It is strange, but I also feel he needs this fight.‘ Alora told them.

‘Closure...he needs closure.‘ Selena said.
Although she didn’t respond verbally, Alora felt Xena’s agreement with Selena’s
statement.
Alora accepted Matthew’s answer and his need for this fight with a nod. Alora decided she would give him a good fight, and
entered into a ready fighting stance and waited.
Matthew felt a sense of relief when Alora simply nodded at his answer and took her fighter’s stance. He made the first move,
coming at her fast, but not fast enough. Alora moved in a fluid motion that was even faster than his own, deflecting the punch he
had aimed at her solar plexus. Then in a beautiful flow of motion that was almost like a dance, she swept his feet out from under
him.
Matthew reacted fast as he fell, twisting his body in the air to land on his feet and then jumping back a few feet. He barely had
time to take a defensive pose before Alora made a powerful jab to his ribs, he grunted in pain when her fist connected. Alora
followed the jab up with a kick to his other side. He lowered an arm to block the kick, and grunted in pain as the kick nearly broke
his arm.
The kick had sent Matthew stumbling to the side a bit, he and his wolf admired the
amount of power Alora had as they regained their balance. Matthew went in for another.
attack, only to have it beautifully deflected before receiving another brutal blow. At one
point Matthew felt like they were a lowly peasant going up against a powerful Goddess. Ast
the battle wore on, Matt increasingly felt like his moves were slow and bumbling while
Alora’s were fast and graceful.
Eventually, when it got closer to the end of the five allotted minutes for the fight, Aloral
decided the battle needed to end definitively. With a whip–like kick to Matthew’s stomach,
she sent him flying off the platform and across the arena floor. He rolled a few times, before

coming to a stop on his back. Matt let out a pain filled groan when he landed on his back and didn’t bother to get up as the
countdown started.
After the countdown ended, Alora hopped off the platform and calmly walked over te
Matthew. Coming to a stop she looked down and met his gaze. There in his eyes, Alora could
see that the battle they fought had given him the closure he had sought from it. Alora
reached her hand out in an offer, he looked at it in confusion for a moment, before he
accepted her help to his feet.
Matthew was taller than Alora, so once he was on his feet, she had to look up to meet his
gaze. Alora decided Matthew deserved to know what the Moon Goddess and her consort had
told Xena, Selena and her. At least the part of it that involved him.
“Be at peace, our rejection of each other was a part of a greater plan our Moon Goddess had for us. We were both under
powerful black magic spells that only a rejection was able to break. Your real fated mate is out there somewhere just as mine is.”
Alora kept her voice low, to keep anyone but Matthew from hearing her.
Matthew looked at Alora in surprise, shocked at what she had told him. However, before he could come back to his senses and
ask her questions, Alora had already made her way back across the arena. It was another moment before Matthew started to
follow, as he needed to make his own way back to his seat.
‘Ares?‘ Matthew asked.
I sensed only the truth in her words.‘ Ares answered.
As Alora walked away from Matthew, she felt as if she was closing one more chapter of her adolescent life and opening another
of her adult life. It was an odd feeling to her, not a bad odd, just an odd feeling. Approaching her seat, she met Darien’s
questioning and
worried gaze.

“I’m fine, we both needed the fight.” Alora said, not needing to wait for the question that his eyes had been asking.
Darien frowned, his expression still worried. “What was it you were telling him when you helped him up?”
Alora sat down next to Darien and let out a resigned sigh, knowing he would just keep asking her questions if she didn’t answer
him. “I told him what the Moon Goddess told me, that our rejection of each other was necessary. Told him his true fated mate
was out there somewhere.”
Darien blinked in surprise, struck silent for a moment. What Alora had done was incredibly generous. It also told Darien that
Alora didn’t hold Matt’s rejection of her against him.
“You’ve forgiven him?” Darien asked, although it sounded more like a statement.
Alora nodded. “I have. What happened was tragic, but necessary.” The tragic necessity of what happened allowed Alora the
ability to forgive, what would normally have been unforgivable.