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.

he kept our training sessions private, why I was never allowed to talk about my health problems publicly, why he’d said those words to me last night. They’d struck me as odd, but I’d had more important things to worry about at the time. But his phrasing had been weird.

be fine.”*’ That was what he had said. ‘Biggest issue’ being my past. Because he knew that

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

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

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

might happen one day. That it was information that could likely lead

felt myself sink deeper inside, the

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

in. “She’s a descendant of

anything, Allison!” Kieran snapped angrily. “She couldn’t even shift before I brought her here. She didn’t even know what werewolves were. She was an

death was really as justified as you

trying to tell you. Raven isn’t a devil like we

quietly, my voice

it was me. I killed

“Rae!”

‘Devil’ or due to my past crimes, I’m no innocent, Kieran. Pick a title; Rogue or Devil. Because the same meaning still applies. I don’t belong here.

of pretending to be someone I wasn’t… and exhausted of now defending

I was done.

over hearing my confession, tears starting to fall down her face.

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 the process. He was a

I interjected before she

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

“What…?”

Kieran

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 into

“Rae-.”

as he looked at me, making me want to take it all back. But even if it hurt, these were the

in your face every day we were together.

away was only making this harder. Too hard to deal with… and

of frustration and sadness surfaced all at once, a cumulation of both the revelations

FIX ME,

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

believing the best still

It never

nearby, Daniel stirred as I finally raised my voice in anger. It must have made him uncomfortable, unsure probably if I

sighed. I was letting my emotions seep in again, something that was a snowball that would probably end badly. Right now, me leaving as soon as possible was the best- case

only problem now was…

too many floors up for me to safely utilise a window escape. I

her to your father,

said. “Let him decide what to

He looked… pissed. Probably rightfully so given the circumstances.

to the Goddess, Daniel…,” Kieran warned.

your mother? Our other pack members? So many died in

father? Siblings?” he argued. “Because her entire family is dead because of us. Did

…I hadn’t.

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