A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 72

Chapter Seventy–Two 

“...What‘s her name?” I found myself asking politely, though I didn‘t really feel present. 

Truthfully, I didn‘t feel much of anything. My body had gone completely numb, falling into autopilot responses as I struggled to come to terms with what Cai had just told me. 

He found his mate. 

But he was only nineteen. He shouldn‘t have found her so soon. 

‘Caius knight dies at the age of twenty–one with no Luna, mate or child‘. That was the future for Cail had known. Yet somehow this timeline had changed enough that he had met her earlier. It was a cruel slap in the face as reality reminded me, once more, that it would refuse to ever let me be happy. Even for just the few years I thought I might have had with him. 

“Caitlyn,” he replied awkwardly. “She seems... nice. Sweet.” 

‘Nice? Really? That was the best he could say about the woman who was supposedly his other half? His soul mate? 

I wanted to ask him how they met but a part of me couldn‘t bear to hear any more details. Knowing her name would be enough. 

“Aria,” he said, tilting my chin up to look at him, to meet his golden eyes. “It doesn‘t change anything for m e... I still want to be with you.” 

Instantly, my body tensed, the gears in my head finally starting to kick back into reality. His words managed to trigger a pain inside me that I was all too familiar with, something I had tried so hard to push t o the furthest part of my mind. It was almost exactly like it was in the past. 

...Except I wasn‘t the girl being abandoned by her mate anymore. 

No, now I was being set up to become Thea. 1 

“No,” I said flatly, grabbing the keys and dagger by my side to leave. “No, I‘m not doing this.” 

“Aria, wait. Talk to me.” 

I stood up and started to walk towards the car but Cai quickly rushed to stand in my way. 

“Aria, please. Can we just talk about this for a second?” 

“No, this was dumb from the beginning,” I said. “And I‘m not just referring to us. I mean this whole plan for my escape too. It‘s rushed and clumsy.” 

“We‘ve got everything sorted. We‘ll get you back to the Silver Lake and take care of you.” 

There it was again. No insinuation of moving me, no mention of Iris or the rebellion. As if he thought everyone wasn‘t going to just assume that the Silver Lake was the first place I‘d go. 

“Tell me, Cai, what exactly was the plan? Do you even have one?” I asked, folding my arms over my chest. “I was under the impression you were working with Iris for this but I‘m quickly realising that maybe that‘s not the case.” 

He frowned. “Why would I be in contact with Iris for this? I haven‘t seen her since last year.” 

A cynical laugh escaped my lips. “This is actually ridiculous. The first place Tytus is going to look is the Silver Lake, especially once Aleric is forced to confess that info. Then we‘re back to square one; avoiding a war between two territories because of me.” 

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“Then we‘ll move you,” he argued. “We can go somewhere else until it‘s safe.” 

“Just the three of us, yeah?” I snapped back snarkily. “You, me, and Caitlyn?” 

face flashed with pain but I didn‘t feel bad. He should have never touched me tonight knowing he had someone bonded to him. I was too familiar with the anguish of seeing

said, stepping past him to continue

my wrist and tried to pull me

accepted that. No, I was pissed because he still had the audacity to look at me and tell me that he wanted me, knowing someone was

situation

reached out to grab me, my instincts got the better of me.

my Beta heir days, I still managed to quickly bring the dagger up and hold

me,” I

my hand away without any issue whatsoever, but the sentiment was

and forth from

come off as appealing to the side of me that still cared for him, but now they

tightened on the blade.

my eyes narrowing with

actually do it and he was trying to call that bluff. But

me made me feel sick.

reminder of who I really was, what I was actually capable of, something he was apparently

from. Never forget why I‘m here.‘

confusion but I didn‘t wait. With my spare hand, I grabbed at his shirt and

I whispered. “You shouldn‘t test someone who has killed more people

you

to you, Cai,” I confessed. “I lied so I didn‘t scare you away. But do you want to know the truth? The real truth? You see, I knew you in the past, Caius Knight, Alpha of the Silver Lake. Our packs were

eye. “Because of me,” I said. “I was your dooth. I killed you. I did it for

heart pounding loudly in my chest as I confessed the words! never wanted him to hear. “... I did it for my family‘s honour... I did it to

so brutally deprived me olu! That was

neither of us spoke, just my words hanging in

the full gravity of who I really was. I needed him to understand that he didn‘t really have feelings for me, just a version of me I‘d let him see. Not some young, tormented girl he met

too weak to go through with it; to sever that tie that had become a lifeline for me. Cai had

acknowledge that this wasn‘t a fantasy, that being with

to let go of that

trying to move the

and push me away already. He could have overpowered me within seconds without any effort on his part... but he was trying not to hurt me,

point. Because, even though I didn‘t want to, needed him to at least believe I would, to take me seriously, and it seemed this was the only way he was

you want to make it two for two?”

fall back to his side, acknowledging that there was nothing he could do

incredibly naive it was of him to still look at m e with those eyes. As if I hadn‘t just confessed to murdering him. As if a

should let m e go. Or at least take this as my confirmation that I didn‘t want to be involved with him anymore; even though a part of my mind was

him, taking a few steps backwards to create some distance.

I said, my voice finally betraying my exhaustion. “Go home and be

I left.

in the ignition, and

to go, yet I realised that all paths ahead were likely the wrong choice. And so I

Chapter Seventy–Two 

second. 

in to the pain

doing my best to compartmentalise the aching inside, I tried to focus on what to do now.

risking my life once more to the mercy of assassins and Tytus, yet to run away meant risking my life to the mercy of the world... and Tytus. There was no safety for me. Not really. Maybe if I could get in contact with Iris I could try and find a way into

only one person, outside of the Winter Mist, who was in contact with Iris, one person who I could trust

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