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.

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

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

Let alone keep this from me? Why bring me here

a powerful pack, one stronger than even Ashwood by a considerable margin. Of which, there was only one other in modern

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

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

myself sink deeper inside, the last shred of hope

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

and bewitched you, Kieran!” Allison 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 war, somehow surviving long enough to still be tortured by our pack despite her situation. Sterling was selling silver suppressors, Allison. Illegally.”

I’m starting to wonder if Sterling’s death was really as justified as you claimed.

you. Raven isn’t a devil like we were always told. She’s just a girl,

killed Sterling,” I said quietly, my voice

me. I

“Rae!”

I’m no innocent, Kieran. Pick a title; Rogue or Devil. Because the same meaning still applies. I

exhausted of now defending myself against something I couldn’t change. My body felt numb to everything as

I was done.

hearing my confession, tears starting to fall

Kieran! She is literally admitting that she’s evil.

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

interjected before she could

I finished the job. Because that’s what he was. What you

“What…?”

finally, Kieran looked

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 admission. This shouldn’t be a shock. I already told you

“Rae-.”

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

in your face every day we were together. I promised to protect you, and I still intend to do that. You’re

letting me push him away was only making this harder. Too hard to deal with… and I suddenly cracked.

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

FIX ME, KIERAN,” I snapped.

nor change my past. This isn’t something you can mend like my poisoning or shifting. Stop

and genuinely good person, believing the best still exists inside me,’ I added

not there. It never

him uncomfortable, unsure probably if I were about to perform some other devil magic. Whatever the hell that

a fight, and I sighed. I was letting my emotions seep in again, something that was a snowball that would probably end badly. Right

now

up for me to safely utilise a window escape. I was trapped unless I intended to

need to take her to your

decide what to

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

and I swear to the Goddess, Daniel…,”

monsters who killed your mother? Our other pack

Siblings?” he argued. “Because her entire family

…I hadn’t.

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