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?” 

flashed 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 anguish of seeing your mate

said, stepping

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

I was pissed because he still had the audacity to

exact situation already

reached out to grab me,

than my Beta heir days, I still managed to quickly bring the dagger up

touch me,” I

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

back and forth from my face to the

side of me that still cared for him, but now they only came off as though

hand tightened on the

wouldn‘t do it?” I asked him, my eyes narrowing

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 like

me feel sick. It made me regret so many of my actions and question why I had let things even

was, what I was

came from. Never forget why

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

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

...What are you

you want to know the 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

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

to hear. “... I did

a fraction of the attention he had so brutally deprived me olu!

us spoke, just my words hanging in

me I‘d let him see. Not some young, tormented girl he

weak to go through with it; to sever that tie that had become a lifeline for me.

illusion. And 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

let go of that delusion and prevent a cycle from

said, gently trying to move the

typical of him to 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

point. Because, even though I didn‘t want to, needed him to at least believe I would, to

make it two

back to his side, acknowledging that

couldn‘t help but wonder how incredibly naive it was of him to still look at m e with those eyes. As if I hadn‘t just confessed to murdering him. As if a part of him actually still wanted t o

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

away from him, taking a few

I said, my voice finally betraying my exhaustion. “Go

then I left.

in the ignition, and I left.

paths ahead were likely the wrong choice. And so I just drove. Without a destination, into the dark, and with my eyes threatening to overflow

Chapter Seventy–Two 

second. 

relax or give in to

my best to compartmentalise the aching inside, I

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

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

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