Total pages in book: 88
Estimated words: 83353 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 417(@200wpm)___ 333(@250wpm)___ 278(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 83353 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 417(@200wpm)___ 333(@250wpm)___ 278(@300wpm)
“It…it won’t?” Hanna asked tentatively. “So…you’re not mad at us?”
“How can I be angry when I meant the two of you to be together all along?” the Goddess asked. “Wraith, the potion you took which killed you carried not a curse, but a blessing. You were born too soon and so I had to put you in a state of stasis until Hanna could also be born and come to know you. You were the only one who could protect her from the demonic entity that stalked her—just as she was the only one who could retrieve that little girl’s soul.”
“So…all of this was planned?” Wraith asked, sounding bewildered.
“From the very beginning,” the Goddess assured him. “I always have a plan for my children, Warrior.”
“So…what happens now?” Hanna asked uncertainly. “I mean, do I go with Wraith to the afterlife?”
“Not yet, my daughter,” the Goddess told her. “For I am giving your Warrior a second chance at life. He will be solid and mortal once more so that the two of you can truly live and love together. You will bear him sons and the two of you will raise a family and grow old together. You will die on the same day after a long and fruitful life and only then, side by side and hand-in-hand, will you enter the gates of the afterlife together. This is my gift to both of you for your courage and self-sacrifice.”
“Oh, thank you Goddess—thank you!” Hanna found that she was weeping—tears of joy were rolling down the sides of her face. Inside, she could feel Wraith’s wonder and joy and gratitude as well.
“Thank you, Goddess,” he said. “Truly, all my long years of exile as a ghost were worth it to hold my beloved in my arms and know she will never be parted from me.”
“Live well, Warrior,” the Goddess murmured. “And I will see the two of you later—much later.”
And then the warm, feminine presence was gone from the room, leaving the two of them holding each other tightly as they tried to process the amazing experience.
It took a little time for Hanna to speak. For a long time she clung to her ghost warrior, knowing that he was no longer a ghost. At last she said, rather shakily,
“Did…did that really just happen?”
“It did,” Wraith rumbled. Rolling them over again, he put Hanna on top and she realized she was still straddling him with his shaft buried deep in her pussy. He looked up at her, his mismatched eyes shining with happiness. “It did happen—the Goddess has granted me another chance at life—a life I get to spend with you, little one.”
“I’ve never spoken to a deity before,” Hanna admitted. “Her presence is…overwhelming.”
“She is truly the Mother of All Life and worthy of praise,” he agreed. “And she is most generous to give us this chance—the promise that we will be together always.”
Hanna felt as though her heart might burst with happiness.
“I’ll never lose you again!” she whispered, reaching down to cup his face.
“We’ll never lose each other,” Wraith corrected her, smiling. “And that’s not all the Goddess promised—she said we would have a family.”
“That’s right!” Hanna was reminded all over again of this shaft deep inside her. She wiggled her hips, making Wraith groan. “She said I would bear you many sons. So shouldn’t you get started getting me pregnant?”
His gold and blue eyes went half-lidded with desire as he looked up at her.
“With pleasure little one. I want to Bond you to me again, all night long.”
So he did. And all during the long, pleasurable night Hanna felt incredibly blessed that the big warrior had come into her life. Her future happiness was assured forever now, all because she had been…Guarded by the Ghost.
EPILOGUE
“You look beautiful in that gown!” Sam stared at Hanna admiringly as she twirled in the emerald green dress that Aunt Luna had bought her when she first moved to the Mother Ship. “And you look so happy too,” she added. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you looking so content and so calm.”
“That’s because there are no Imps up here and hardly any ghosts,” Hanna told her, smiling.
“Well, there’s certainly one less now,” Sam pointed out. “Since your own ghost warrior is back in the Land of the Living.”
“Yes, isn’t he amazing?” Hanna sighed happily. “And the Goddess promised we’d be together forever.”
Sam laughed.
“Yes—he’s almost as amazing as my Kindred,” she said, her eyes dancing. “And now that the two of them are friends, maybe we can go on a double date sometime.”
“I’d love that,” Hanna said seriously. “But only if it’s here on the Mother Ship. I never want to go back down to Earth again if I can help it. I’m going to stay up here with Wraith and Aunt Luna and Uncle Bruin and finish my degree and then teach.”