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?” 

touched me tonight knowing he had someone bonded to him. I was too familiar with the anguish

said, stepping past

felt as Cai then grabbed my wrist and tried to pull

accepted that. No, I was pissed because he still

exact situation

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

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

touch me,” I growled.

In truth, we both knew he could very easily swat my hand away without any issue

and forth from my face to the

of me that still cared for him, but

hand tightened on the

I asked him, my eyes narrowing with the threat. “You‘re so sure,

actually do it and he was trying to

to 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. It made me regret so many of my actions

I was

I came from. Never

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

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

are you talking

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 twenty-one, you died alone.

the eye. “Because of me,” I

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 make

had so brutally deprived me olu! That was what your life was wortii, Cai.

hanging in the open as he

Not some young, tormented girl he met in high school... but a killer. Someone who had wiped more territories off the map just from within her own quarters, than he had ever visited from his entire time

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

wake up and acknowledge that this wasn‘t a fantasy, that being with him was always something that was never going to

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

I pressed the knife in further, trying to prove my 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

make it two for two?” I asked

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

was of him to still look at m e with those eyes. As

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... t o not

from him, taking a few steps backwards to create some

said, my voice finally betraying my exhaustion. “Go home and be an honourable man to your mate.” 4

I

the car, the key in the

I just drove. Without a destination, into the dark, and with my eyes threatening to

Chapter Seventy–Two 

second. 

in to the pain

inside, I tried to focus on what to do

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 the network

Iris, one person who I could trust my life and whereabouts with... and it

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