Dreams of the Forgotten by Lexi Ander Read Free Book Online

at me with his black eyes and smiled. "Each time I think I know everything about you, you do something like this. It will be interesting to see what else unfolds around you." Ashur dug in his pants pocket, pulling out a gold necklace with a medallion in the shape an eightpointed star. The pendant seemed familiar but I couldn't recall where I'd seen the symbol before. "I dropped by because I came across this. It's the old emblem of the Goddess Inanna, used many centuries ago. I took the chain off the body of one of the Abd-al-Majid, the Servants of the Glorious One ."
The assassins, who called themselves Servants of the Glorious One , did everything in their power to kill off my family line. Their last victims had been my birth parents, Ammon and Rebecca Janick, who had been killed the night I was born. The assassins had no mercy. Even though the royal bloodline hadn't claimed the Seat of Zeev, the Wolf Throne, for centuries, they continued to hunt us, leaving me the last in the line.
I took the necklace, fingering the star. "Isn't Inanna the same Goddess who had a vendetta against Gilgamesh for refusing to bed her?"
"The death of Enkidu paid that debt."
I glanced up at Ashur and held up the necklace. "The assassins have been hunting my family for more than three hundred years. It doesn't sound like she considered the debt paid." I thought back to my history lessons about the death of Enkidu. Inanna had invited Gilgamesh, the King of Uruk, to be her consort and he turned her down. It had been common knowledge her consorts ended up cursed.
She had been furious at the refusal. Then the king chose the Wild Man, Enkidu, as his consort. Rebuffed by the king, Inanna had tried to have Gilgamesh killed, going so far as approaching her sister, Ereshigal, the Goddess of Irkalla, the Land of the Dead, for help. Inanna wanted to send her sister's consort, Gugalanna, the Bull of Heaven, to kill the demi-God. There'd been quite a debate among the Gods. In the end, Gugalanna was sent to his death.
Enkidu, furious with Inanna, had threatened to kill her, and this impiety was what sealed his fate. The God Shamash argued against the sentence of Gilgamesh's consort, that the situation only occurred because of Inanna's bruised pride and jealousy. Gugalanna had been Inanna's champion and he'd lost, therefore the contention was settled. Shamash saved Gilgamesh and their children, protecting their family with the blessing of Twin Flames.
This boon didn't appease Gilgamesh's grief. He tore down the Temples of Inanna. The practice of her Sacred Prostitution was outlawed, not only in the Uruk Kingdom of Sumeria, but also later by the Hebrews and the followers of the human prophet, Muhammad. We Lycans refused to worship the murderer of our Father.
The ranch had been attacked by a serial killer, Craig Stoiler and his supporters a couple of months ago. We were victorious in the battle that ensued, but the God who used Stoiler as an Avatar escaped unidentified. A God wanted me dead and I didn't know why. Another thought occurred to me. "Was Inanna the one controlling Craig Stoiler as an Avatar? Hakim said Avatars were connected to a God by devotion or birth." The Goddess Ki had once told me that Enkidu had other children. "If Stoiler was a descendant of one of the children of the priestess Shamhat, then Inanna would be able to control him."
Ashur turned his gaze up to the sky, brows drawn together. "The Servants of the Glorious One are the assassins who have attempted to murder the royal line. Mithra went missing around the time of the death of the last known Lycan King. An Avatar was used to hide the God's identity from us and sent against you, the last direct descendant of the first King Zircon. If it is Inanna who is involved then she is striving to do something without the approval of our family."
I gave Ashur my best ugly snort. "Well, yeah, she attempted to kill me. It seems to me that Inanna is still running her campaign against the descendants of