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.

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

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 other uproar I could possibly

keep this from

“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.

unlike anything I’d felt before. He’d known this entire time and

this might happen one day. That

I felt myself sink deeper inside, the last shred of hope

seemed we’d both been keeping things from each other. Secrets that had dire consequences. Perhaps our relationship really

in. “She’s a descendant of the Siren.

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

really as justified

and listen to what I’m trying to tell you. Raven isn’t a devil like we were always

quietly, my voice cutting through the room.

me. I killed

“Rae!”

so-called ‘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. I never did. There is

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

I was done.

my confession, tears starting to

literally admitting that she’s

of killed him, I would have.

interjected before she could

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 my own volition? With a man like my father? My leash has only

“What…?”

finally, Kieran looked surprised.

swallowing back my emotions. “You always 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 admission. This shouldn’t be a shock. I already told

“Rae-.”

“…Rae is a lie. She 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 the

me, I know it. I saw it in your face every day we were together. I

only making this harder. Too hard to

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

ME,

past. This isn’t something you can mend

be such a kind and genuinely good person, believing the best

there. It

raised my voice in anger. It must have made him uncomfortable, unsure probably if I were

steps towards me, taking an aggressive stance to suggest a fight, and I sighed. I was letting my emotions seep in again, something that was

now was…

safely utilise a window

take her

“Let him decide what to do with

pissed. Probably rightfully

and I swear to the

of the monsters who killed your mother? Our other pack members? So many died in that war

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

…I hadn’t.

This