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?” 

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

Cai,” I said, stepping past him to continue walking to

Cai then grabbed my wrist and tried

I was pissed because he still had the audacity to look at me and tell me that

exact situation already once.

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

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

me,” I growled.

my hand away without any issue whatsoever, but

he said, his eyes flicking back and forth from my face to

still cared for him, but now they only came

tightened on the blade.

I wouldn‘t do it?” I asked him, my eyes narrowing with the threat. “You‘re so sure, Cai?”

he was trying to call that bluff. But in that moment, I sure as hell didn‘t feel like

serve that torture upon another young girl, to repeat that cycle... the very fact he could even ask that of me made me feel sick.

really was, what I was actually capable of,

I came from. Never forget

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

it before,” I whispered. “You shouldn‘t test someone who has killed more people than

you talking about?”

see, I knew you in the past, Caius Knight, Alpha of the Silver Lake. Our packs were at war for months, neither one

my lace away just enough so I could look him in the eye. “Because of me,” I said. “I was your dooth. I killed you. I

to hear. “... I did it for my family‘s honour... I did it to make up

the attention he had so brutally deprived me olu! That was what your life was wortii, Cai. That is why I killed you. For me.”

spoke, just my words hanging in the open as he slowly took

for me, just a version of me I‘d let him see. Not some young, tormented girl he met

that had become a lifeline for me. Cai had become a symbol in my head of what I had always hoped my life would become. The dream

and acknowledge that this wasn‘t a fantasy, that being with him was always something that was never going to end well. Because now look

go of that delusion and prevent a cycle from repeating.

trying to

seconds without any effort on his part... but he was trying not to

to at least

make it two for two?”

side, acknowledging that there was nothing he could do to change the situation.

at m e with those eyes. As if I hadn‘t just confessed to murdering him. As if a part of him actually still

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

taking a few steps

“Go

then I

key in the

likely the wrong choice. And so I just drove. Without a destination, into the dark, and with

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second. 

no time to relax or give in to the pain

best to compartmentalise the aching inside, I

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

issue was 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 person I had just threatened with

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