A Gift from the Goddess

Book Two – Ch.# 36

“Rae… What’s happened?” he asked.

I opened my mouth to reply but the words wouldn’t come out. My body was running on pure adrenaline for survival now and I was doing my best to push through the overwhelming urge to cave into my emotions.

“I… I’m…,” I fumbled.

My eyes were trying to water but I gritted my teeth against it.

I didn’t want to fight Kieran… I didn’t know if I could live myself if I were to see the look of hatred in his eyes. Anything but that.

“Rae?”

“I… Kieran, someth-.”

But before I could finish speaking, I was suddenly cut off.

“RAVEN!” Allison’s voice shrilly screamed.

And I cursed. She was here. Probably at the staircase looking for me.

This was game over.

Kieran frowned but turned around to

investigate, walking towards my only available exit. One now manned by his insane little sister.

“Kieran! W-wait… don’t….”

However, as I futilely trailed behind him, I was further stressed by seeing that Allison had recruited help. Help in the form of Daniel, the Beta heir.

“Hand yourself over, Raven,” Daniel said, stepping cautiously forward. “Let’s not drag this out any longer than we have to.”

“What the hell is going on?” Kieran demanded.

“I’m sorry, man, but she’s been lying to you,” he said. “Allison said that she admitted to being one of them. Called herself by a name that belonged to The Council of the Silver Mist. She’s a Knight. Rheyna Knight.”

But as Daniel enlightened him to the

situation, it was Kieran’s reaction that was the most unsettling.

Or, lack of, to be precise.

Because there was no shock or surprise that crossed his features at all. Just… remaining completely silent as he held Daniel’s gaze.

Almost as if…

Almost as if he knew.

“…Kieran?” I whispered. “Why aren’t you….”

And his face then confirmed it, closing his eyes in guilt for a moment.

my health problems publicly, why he’d said those words to me last night. They’d struck me as odd,

we ever have to face publicly is just crimes your father forced you to do, then I think we’ll be fine.”*’ That was what he had said. ‘Biggest issue’ being my past. Because he knew that my birth family would cause a reaction like this, far greater than any

you know? Let alone keep this from me? Why bring

my suspicions after I found out about the silver suppressors,” he said. “You kept up with me during a fight whilst taking them, Rae. It meant you had to be from a powerful pack, one stronger than even Ashwood by a considerable margin. Of which, there was only one other in modern history. But… I thought you didn’t remember anything about your

stung me unlike anything I’d felt before. He’d known

full well that this might happen one day. That it was information that could likely lead to

sink deeper inside, the last

both been keeping things from each other. Secrets that had dire consequences. Perhaps our relationship really was irreparable

chimed in. “She’s a descendant of the Siren. Manipulation is in her

Kieran snapped angrily. “She couldn’t even shift before I brought her here. She didn’t even know what werewolves were. She was an orphan of

she said. “Now I’m starting to wonder if Sterling’s death was really

what I’m trying to tell you. Raven isn’t a devil like we were always told. She’s just

voice

was me. I

“Rae!”

innocent, Kieran. Pick a title; Rogue or Devil. Because the same meaning still applies. I don’t belong here. I never did. There is nothing I can do

and exhausted of now defending myself against something I couldn’t change. My body felt

I was done.

over hearing my confession, tears starting to fall down her

to her, Kieran! She is literally admitting that she’s evil. She-.”

to her room and tried to force his mark on her. If she hadn’t of killed him, I would have. He overstepped a line and was trying to abandon Ashwood, breaking our rules in

I interjected before

but if you check the coroner report, you’ll find that his finger joints were repeatedly broken prior to his death,” I added. “I tortured him before I finished the job. Because that’s what he was. What you were too. A job, Kieran. You really think I was allowed to come here of

“What…?”

finally, Kieran looked

were, even from the very beginning when we first met. I was sent to retrieve documents once in possession of a smuggler I’d killed, believed to be handed over to Victor Lycroft. Documents that I then discovered Sterling knew the whereabouts of. After he attacked me, I turned the tables on him and tortured him

“Rae-.”

doesn’t exist.” His jaw tensed as he looked at me, making me want to take it all back. But even if it hurt, these were

with me, I know it. I saw it in your face every day we were together. I promised to protect you, and I still intend

away was only making this harder. Too hard to deal

sadness surfaced all at once, a cumulation of both the revelations today and the confliction from

FIX ME,

change my past. This isn’t something you can mend like my poisoning or shifting.

such a kind and genuinely good person, believing the best

It never will be.’

him uncomfortable, unsure probably if I

sighed. I was letting my emotions seep in again, something that was a

only problem now was… how.

for me to safely utilise a window

her to your

decide what to do with

having that. He looked… pissed. Probably rightfully so given the

to the Goddess, Daniel…,”

You really want to defend her? A child of the monsters who killed your mother? Our other pack members?

father? Siblings?” he argued. “Because her entire family is

…I hadn’t.

This went both