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.” 

Lilapler Seventy Two 

“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?” 

should have never touched me tonight knowing he had

I said, stepping past him to continue walking to the

of stupidity or desperation, I felt as Cai then grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me to face him

mate; that was always going to be a possibility and I had already accepted that. No, I was pissed because he still had the audacity to look at me and tell me that

this exact situation already

when he reached out to grab me, my

I still managed to quickly bring the dagger up

touch me,” I growled.

swat my hand away

wouldn‘t,” he said, his eyes flicking back and forth from my face to the

appealing to the side of me that still cared for

tightened

it?” I asked him, my eyes narrowing with the threat.

and he was trying to call

repeat that cycle... the very fact he could even ask that of me made me feel sick. It made me regret so many of my actions and question why I had let things even get

reminder of who I really was, what I was actually capable of,

came from.

didn‘t wait. With my spare hand, I grabbed at his shirt and pulled his torso down so I could speak directly into his

it before,” I whispered. “You shouldn‘t test someone who

...What are you

truth? The real truth? You see, I knew you in the past, Caius Knight, Alpha of the Silver Lake. Our packs were at war for months, neither one gaining the upper hand... and then you died. At the age of

could look him in the eye. “Because of me,” I said. “I was

I confessed the words! never wanted him to hear. “... I did it for my family‘s honour... I did it to make up for my own failures as a

the attention he had so brutally deprived me olu! That was what your life was wortii,

my words hanging in the open as he slowly took

to hear this. To realise 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 in high school... but a killer. Someone who

for me. Cai

fantasy, that being with him was always something that was

go of that delusion and prevent a

he said, gently trying to move the dagger away.

not just force it out of my hand 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, Somehow after everything I said, he was

my point. Because, even though I didn‘t want to, needed him to at least believe I would, to take me seriously, and it

want to make it two for two?” I asked darkly.

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

couldn‘t help but wonder how incredibly naive it was of him to still look at m e with those

take this as my confirmation that I didn‘t want to be involved with him anymore; even though a part of my mind was still screaming at me to take it all back, to find a way to still be with him... t o not let go of

him, taking a few steps backwards to

finally betraying my exhaustion. “Go

I

the key in

yet I realised that all paths ahead were likely the wrong choice. And so I just drove. Without a destination, into the dark,

Chapter Seventy–Two 

second. 

no time to relax or give in to the pain just yet... because I needed to

my best to compartmentalise the aching inside, I tried to focus

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 the network she

that I knew of only one person, outside of the Winter Mist, who was in contact with Iris, one person who I could trust my life and whereabouts with... and it was the same

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