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.

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

biggest issue 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

alone keep this from me? Why

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

betrayal stung me unlike anything I’d felt

from me, knowing full well that this might happen one day. That it was information that could likely lead to my

felt myself sink deeper inside, the last shred of hope

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

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

I brought her here. She didn’t even know what werewolves were. She was

covering up her tracks, believing her fabrications,” she said. “Now I’m starting to wonder if Sterling’s death was really

you. Raven isn’t a devil like

killed Sterling,” I said quietly, my voice cutting through the room.

was me. I killed him.”

“Rae!”

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. I never did. There is nothing

was feeling… exhausted. Exhausted of pretending to be someone I wasn’t… and exhausted of now defending myself against something I couldn’t change. My body felt numb to everything as the truth was unravelled.

I was done.

my confession, tears starting to fall

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

her. If she hadn’t of killed him, I would

I interjected before

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 my own volition? With

“What…?”

finally, Kieran looked

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

“Rae-.”

jaw tensed as he looked at me, making me

it in your face every day

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

cumulation of both

CAN’T FIX ME, KIERAN,” I

something you can mend

genuinely good person, believing the best still exists inside me,’ I added in my head.

it’s not there. It never will be.’

in anger. It must have made him uncomfortable, unsure probably if I

fight, and 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… how.

a window escape. I was trapped unless I intended

take her to your

“Let him decide what to do with

looked… pissed. Probably rightfully so given the

I swear to the Goddess, Daniel…,” Kieran

monsters who killed your mother? Our other pack members? So many

argued. “Because her entire family is dead because of us.

…I hadn’t.

right. This