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?” 

face flashed with pain but I didn‘t feel bad. He should have never touched me tonight knowing he had someone bonded to him.

said, stepping past him to continue

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

to be a possibility and I had already accepted that. No, I was pissed because

this exact situation already

out to grab me,

managed to quickly bring the dagger up and hold it up t

me,” I

hand away without any issue whatsoever, but the sentiment was now there. The intention was clear. This was my message

flicking back and forth from my

words had meant to come off as appealing to the side of me that still cared for

hand tightened on the blade.

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

truth, I knew he was right. There was no 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

torture upon another young 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

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

I came from. Never forget why I‘m here.‘

in confusion but I didn‘t wait. With my spare hand, I grabbed at his shirt and pulled his torso down so

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

you talking about?”

you in the past, Caius Knight, Alpha of the Silver Lake. Our packs were at war for

just enough so I could look him in the eye. “Because of me,” I

chest as I confessed the words! never wanted him to hear. “... I

brutally deprived me olu! That was what your life was wortii, Cai. That is why I

still as neither of us spoke, just my words hanging in the open as he slowly took it

Not some young, tormented girl he met in high school...

have done this a long time ago. But had been too weak to go through with it; to sever that tie 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 of a perfect future with someone

this wasn‘t a fantasy, that being with him was always something that was never going

time for us to let go of that delusion

to move the dagger away.

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

to, needed him to at least believe I would, to take me seriously, and it seemed this was the only way he was

want to make it two

his hand fall back to his side, acknowledging that there was

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

involved with him anymore; even though a part of my mind was still

quickly pulled away from him, taking a few steps backwards to create some distance.

betraying my exhaustion. “Go

I left.

key in the ignition, and I

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

Chapter Seventy–Two 

second. 

to the pain just yet... because I needed to think.

compartmentalise the aching inside,

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 had spoken about.

one person who I could trust my life and whereabouts with... and it was the same person I had just

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