A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 73

Chapter Seventy–Three 

“... What the fuck are you doing back here?” Aleric asked. 

He stood in my doorway, arms crossed, staring at me like I was insane. 

But I didn‘t care. My mind was made up. There was no way I was going to have this conversation tonight. 

“No,” I answered flatly. 

“No‘?” 

“No, I‘m not doing this now,” I clarified. “I‘m too tired. We can talk later.” 

I rolled onto my side, facing away from him, and pulled the blanket up over my shoulder. Maybe if I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep, he would just leave on his own accord. 

“Aria, you need to tell me what‘s going on,” he pressed. “Joseph told me you came back over the border and I thought he was joking until I caught your scent by the stairs. Did something happen? Were you caught?” 

“No,” I mumbled, repeating myself once more. 

“Stop that. Regardless of how tired you are, this is more important. I need to know if something went wrong.” 

I groaned out in frustration but reluctantly sat up, my head immediately pulsing with a migraine.* 

“Nothing went wrong, Aleric. Just let it go.” 

“Obviously something went wrong or you wouldn‘t be here.” 

He was getting angry at me and it was only making me more irritated that we were actually having this conversation. 

“Fine then,” I snapped back, turning to look at him. “You want to know what went wrong? The entire thing. The whole plan. How stupid do you think Tytus is that he wouldn‘t find out that you were planning to hide me in the Silver Lake?” 

His eyes widened a little in surprise. “You’re joking, right? Cai didn‘t organise to move you somewhere else?” 

‘More like didn‘t want to move me somewhere else,‘ I thought, recalling our earlier exchange. And that was only after finding out about Caitlyn. 

“Evidently not,” I answered, not wanting to elaborate further on the other reasons I‘d returned. 

“So... what? You‘re just going to come back here and pretend everything is normal? That you didn‘t almost get killed here? After risking everything to get you out?” 

“I don‘t know, Aleric!” I yelled back. “I don‘t know, okay? I don‘t know what to do about me, or Tytus, or Cai ... and I *especially don‘t know what to do about you.” 

He paused, frowning. “...About me?” 

Ah, fuck. I’d said too much. 

“Wait, are you angry at me because of what I told you in the car?” he asked, piecing together my silence. 

I rubbed my eyes, hoping that this was just a bad dream.“...No.” 

But I didn‘t sound very convincing. 

Chapler Seventy–Three 

“Seriously? How is that fair on me? You were the one who was angry at me for originally not telling you.” 

That did

that final piece inside me that still

In fact, it was the cruellest thing anyone has ever said to me throughout my lives. I would have preferred it if you had just told me you were trying to get

say

so goddamn unpredictable that I feel as though everything I learnt the first time around is

s that fair?” 

what the fuck are you talking about?”

always looked at you as if you were a monster. Because i n my eyes you were, Aleric. You were my

“Aria–.” 

now filling with tears. “Everything. Anything that was within m y power to give, I gave it to you. You wanted the world to kneel before you? I gave you the path to do it. You wanted my heart, my soul and complete servitude? I gave it to you.

this room with nothing but an attendant who in the end threw me to the

you. I did it so that maybe you would love

JOU 

And so that‘s what I did. I worked hard to stop the same future from happening, to stop myself from

the hell is this? You‘re saying I apparently rejected you? Hurt you? ...None of this is making any sense.”

escaped my lips, realising I‘d forgotten the

my face. “You see, to be reborn, you don‘t just get plucked out of thin air by Selene and sent back.

I was going with this, his face quickly starting to pale, and

it came crashing down, slicing through my neck at the trial grounds. You killed me, Aleric. You killed me once I was no

Chapter Seventy Theo 

you put me through?”

words came out. Instead, he just looked at me, his eyes full of confusion, and, slowly,

hands which were now balled into fists, tightened around the

to dictate what‘s unfair this time...,” I choked out slowly. “And you don‘t get to say that you love me. It‘s nine years too late for that.”

kneeled down to eye level, I still refused to raise m

at me,”

I shook my head, wiping at my face.

at me,” he repeated.

escaped me but I just

“Aria, look.” 

raised my head up to finally meet his gaze, to

say that will make what happened to you okay,” he said, his expression serious. “Because the reality is... it‘s not okay. And I can apologise for those things if you want, to say that I‘m sorry but, at the end of the day, even if I did, it wouldn‘t mean anything. Yes, I‘m sorry that those things happened to you, but I can‘t look you in the eye and genuinely apologise for something I never did, and I guarantee you that it wouldn‘t

did.” 

I whispered. “You have time to change, time to become that

chin out of his grasp and looked back down

you, Aria? When have I ever given you a reason to not trust me? It‘s true that there i s nothing I

knew he was right.

was never going to get my sincere apology. And the things that I went through were never going to be okay. Because the person I needed to hear the apology from was dead in

me time and time again that I could. And yet I still refused to let myself

be the person you want me to be,” || said, moving away from him. “I can‘t become a Luna again, always living

nupied scrantyce 

passively i in the shadows as a Luna anyway. I just want you

that much different. It still sounded basically the same as what I

the rest of your life if you want, but I would rather we work together than end up divided in a civil war for power, something that benefits neither us nor the pack. I‘m not so naive as to assume you haven‘t at least considered taking over once you‘re of

it would have on Aleric. At the time, I couldn‘t risk tarnishing our current relationship for fear it would lead to

it was clear

was offering was true then this was the best way

that was the last thing I ever expected to hear from his mouth This would mean no Alpha commanding servitude from a Luna

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