A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 21

 In future chapters, I will also be using single quotes’ for just things Aria says to herself internally. An author note reminder will be added to the next chapter it’s used, which hopefully assists in reading/understanding what’s happening. No…

He couldn’t be here. He wasn’t supposed to be here yet.

1*”You are nothing, Ariadne,’*’I heard his voice speak in my head, an old memory replaying from my past life. ‘*”You are only here because I let you be here.”*’

No, please, no… I’m not ready… ‘*”You have been found guilty of the charges against you.“* 

Cold, familiar green eyes stared down at me.

Piercing. Like a tiger watching its prey with curiosity. “*”Therefore, with the power held within me, I, Aleric Dumont, Alpha of the Winter Mist Pack...” 

I took two steps back slowly, unable to take my eyes off the man in front of me. ‘*”…Sentence you, Ariadne Chrysalis, former Luna of the Winter Mist Pack...”*) “Aria?” a familiar friendly voice called out beside me. However, I couldn’t register their words.

1*”…To death.”*’

I fell backwards to the floor in front of the man who had been my death.

…Who will be my death.

“*”Your sentence is to be carried out immediately.“*‘ 

No, please, make it stop.

I covered my ears feebly as the rational side of my brain tried to convince me this wasn’t real, that the voice was just a memory inside my head and nothing more. 

STOP… STOP….STOP… STOP...

trying to force the memories to leave

“Ariadne?”

It broke through my mental turmoil enough

the same. Nothing was different. Nothing had changed. “... Why are you here?” I managed to whisper. However, I wasn’t sure

be here, right? They called me back home due t o an

to present yourself in this manner to your future Alpha,” he said, a tone o fannoyance in his voice. The way he spoke wasn’t filled with the same level of hatred that I had become accustomed to hearing,

embarrassing me in front of a

again.... “Are you honestly just going to completely ignore what I’m saying to you?” he said, increasingly becoming angrier. I couldn’t get my body to respond. Nothing I did would let me take control. I

...So helpless.

I hadn’t changed. He was fated to control

 could feel the tone of his Alpha authority trying to

eventually lost patience and reached his hand out towards me.

away as I held my hands up in defence against the slap I expected

…Only it never came.

his arm and, to my surprise, I saw how it was positioned as if he had been planning to pull me to my feet rather than slap me. I’d acted on impulse when there had been no real

touch her and leave her be,” Cai said, stepping in. Cai was here. This was real. This wasn’t the trial grounds. Aleric wouldn’t be able to kill me without a valid reason

found I was unable to stop the involuntary flinch that shook

also keep in mind she’s been in

gently touched my trembling shoulder. I wanted to look at him, to look into his kind eyes for reassurance, but I couldn’t make myself lose sight of Aleric. My body’s natural reaction was to fear the pain he could inflict at any

Aleric growled. “She doesn’t belong

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