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?” 

he had someone bonded

said, stepping

my wrist

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

situation already

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

days, I still managed to quickly bring the dagger up and hold it up t o his throat.

me,” I

wide in surprise but I didn‘t waver. In truth, we both knew he could very easily swat my hand away without any issue whatsoever, but

his eyes flicking back and forth from my face

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

instantly, my hand tightened on the

I asked him, my eyes narrowing with the threat.

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

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

who I really was, what I was actually capable of, something he was apparently still

I came from. Never

grabbed at his shirt and pulled his torso down so I could speak

test someone who has

...What are you talking

confessed. “I lied so I didn‘t scare you away. But do you want to know the truth? The real truth? You see, I knew you in the past, Caius Knight, Alpha of the

so I could look him in the eye. “Because of me,” I said. “I was your dooth. I killed you. I did it for my

breathing then became heavier, my 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

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

spoke, just my words hanging in the open as he slowly took

needed him to 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

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

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

go of that delusion and prevent a cycle

said, gently trying to move the

He could have overpowered me within seconds without any

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

make it two for two?” I

to his side, acknowledging that there was nothing he

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

I knew that. He 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... t o not let go

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

voice finally betraying my exhaustion. “Go home and

then I left.

car, the key in the

likely the wrong choice. And so I just drove. Without a destination, into the dark,

Chapter Seventy–Two 

second. 

or give in to the pain just yet... because I needed

compartmentalise the aching inside, I tried

of the world... and Tytus. There was no safety for me. Not

Iris, one person who I

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