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 more important things to worry about at

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 other uproar I could

keep this from me? Why bring me here

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 birth family. I thought

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

this might happen one day. That it was information

felt myself sink deeper inside, the last shred of

from each other. Secrets that had dire consequences. Perhaps our relationship really

chimed in. “She’s a

“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

has you covering up her tracks, believing her fabrications,” she said. “Now I’m starting to wonder if Sterling’s death was really as justified as you claimed. She probably had you kill him as well. Swaying your mind to do

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

Sterling,” I said quietly, my voice

was me. I killed

“Rae!”

a so-called ‘Devil’ or due to my past crimes, I’m no innocent, Kieran. Pick a title; Rogue or Devil.

now defending myself against something I couldn’t

I was done.

my confession, tears starting to fall down her face.

to her, Kieran! She is literally

If she hadn’t of killed him, I would have. He overstepped a line and was trying to

interjected before she

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

“What…?”

finally, Kieran looked

to Victor Lycroft. Documents that I then discovered Sterling knew the whereabouts of. After he attacked me, I turned the tables

“Rae-.”

jaw tensed as he looked at me, making me want to

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

making

and sadness surfaced all at once, a cumulation of both

FIX ME,

something you can mend like my poisoning or shifting. Stop trying to always fix me.”

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

It never will be.’

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

aggressive stance to suggest 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, me leaving as soon as possible was the best-

now

were too many floors up for me to safely utilise a window escape. I was trapped unless I intended to fight my way out. Something that

take her to

decide what to

Kieran wasn’t having that. He looked… pissed.

her and I swear to the

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

he argued. “Because her entire family is

…I hadn’t.

was right. This