Reclaimed By My Alpha (Natalia and Andrei) novel Chapter 593

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Chapter 593

Natalia’s POV

“Good,” she said. “You’re both here. Now we can talk.”

She didn’t look the way she had been the last time I had seen her. During those final moments in the underworld, the Moon Goddess had become enormous and terrifying, a presence more than a person, filling the red sky of the underworld like something carved out of marble and lightning.

Here, perched on her rock with her hair loose and wet around her shoulders, she looked almost ordinary again. Not like a person, of course, because she was still a goddess, but she looked like the peaceful, quiet woman I remembered from the first time I had seen her in my kitchen.

“What is this?” Andrei asked.

The Moon Goddess tilted her head. “Don’t worry. You will return to your bed as soon as it’s over,” she said simply. As she spoke, she rose from the rock, and the water in the pool stilled around her feet as she stepped off of it. She walked right across the surface and stepped onto the ledge where we were sitting.

Stopping in front of us, she raised one hand, and the grotto fell away.

What replaced it was something I could only describe as a memory that didn’t belong to me. We were nowhere and everywhere at once, standing on no ground, watching a sky that was familiar in the worst possible way–red and churning, split through with black.

The demon was there. I felt that same suffocating pressure I remembered from the underworld, that darkness that had no edges or shape but filled everything it touched.

The Moon Goddess was there too. And she was not small.

What followed, I couldn’t fully describe. It wasn’t a battle in the normal sense, but more like watching two storms collide. Force meeting force, light splintering against dark, and the scent of electricity in the air.

I watched her drive him back, inch by inch. It took a long time. There were moments where the dark. surged forward and the light contracted and I held my breath, forgetting that I was only watching, that this had already happened and the outcome was already decided.

But she held her ground, and eventually, with a sound like the world exhaling, the darkness collapsed inward on itself and was gone.

The red sky faded. The churning stopped.

The grotto returned around us, slow and quiet, as if nothing had happened at all.

The Moon Goddess was sitting on her rock again, looking almost tired, which was an expression I never expected to see on the face of a deity.

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