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?” 

me tonight knowing he had someone bonded to him. I was too familiar

Go home, Cai,” I said,

I felt as Cai then grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me to

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

this exact situation already once.

to grab me, my instincts

managed to quickly bring the dagger up and hold it

touch me,”

waver. In truth, we both knew he could very easily swat my hand away without any issue whatsoever, but the sentiment was

eyes flicking back and forth from my

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

my hand tightened on the

asked him, my eyes narrowing

way I would actually do it and he was trying to call that bluff. But in that moment, I sure as hell didn‘t feel like being

girl, to repeat that cycle... the very fact he could even ask that of me made me feel sick. It made me regret so many

I really was, what I was actually

where I came from. Never forget

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

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

...What are you talking

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

in the eye. “Because of me,” I said. “I was your dooth.

heavier, my heart pounding loudly in my chest as I confessed the words! never wanted him to hear. “... I did it for my

me olu! That was what your life was wortii, Cai. That is why I killed you. For

as neither of us spoke, just my words hanging in the open as

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 had wiped more territories off the

had become a lifeline for me. Cai had become a symbol in my head of

it was time to wake up and acknowledge that this wasn‘t a fantasy, that being with him was always something that was never going to end well. Because

us to let go of that delusion and prevent a cycle from repeating.

he said, gently trying to move

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

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 going to realise

two for two?” I asked darkly.

to his side, acknowledging that there was nothing he could

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

would be at least smart enough to realise that he 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 still screaming at me to take it all back, to find a way to still be with him...

quickly pulled away from him, taking a

home, Cai,” I said, my voice finally betraying my exhaustion. “Go home and be an honourable man

then I

in the ignition,

all paths ahead were likely the wrong choice. And so I just drove. Without a

Chapter Seventy–Two 

second. 

give in to the

to compartmentalise the aching inside, I tried

go home meant 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

Winter Mist, who was in contact with Iris, one person who I could trust my life and whereabouts

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