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?” 

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 with another.

figure it out myself. Go home, Cai,” I said, stepping

my wrist and

was pissed. Not because he had a mate; that was always going to be a possibility and I had already accepted that. No, I was pissed because he still had the audacity to look at me and tell me that he wanted

situation already

out to grab me, my instincts got the better of

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

touch me,”

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

his eyes flicking back and

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

hand tightened on the

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

I would actually do it and he was trying to call that bluff. But in that

could even ask that of me made me feel sick. It made me regret so many of my actions and question why

it was a reminder of who I really was, what I was actually

where I came from. Never forget why I‘m

grabbed at his shirt and pulled his torso down

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

are you talking

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 one gaining the upper hand... and then you died. At the age

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

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

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

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

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

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

was time to wake up and acknowledge that this wasn‘t a fantasy, that being

time for us to let go of that delusion and prevent a cycle from

gently trying to

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 was still acting as if he cared.

at least believe I

you want to make it two for two?” I asked darkly.

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

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

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

pulled away from him, taking a few steps backwards

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

I left.

in the

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

Chapter Seventy–Two 

second. 

was no time to relax or give in to the pain just yet... because I needed

my best to compartmentalise the aching inside, I tried to focus

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 a way into the network she had spoken

person who I could trust my life and whereabouts with... and it was the

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