A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 145

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.

never allowed to talk about my health problems publicly, why he’d said those words to me

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

this from me?

pack, one stronger than even Ashwood by a considerable margin. Of which, there was only one other in modern history. But… I thought you

unlike anything I’d felt before.

well that this might happen one day. That

felt myself sink deeper inside, the

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

in. “She’s a descendant of the Siren.

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 orphan of war, somehow surviving long enough to still be tortured by our pack despite her

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 her bidding.”

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

quietly, my voice

was me. I killed him.”

“Rae!”

Rogue or Devil. Because the same meaning still applies. I don’t belong here. I never did. There is nothing I can do

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

I was done.

cried out over hearing my confession, tears starting to fall down

is literally admitting

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

I interjected before

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

“What…?”

finally, Kieran

believed to be handed over to Victor Lycroft. Documents that I then discovered Sterling knew the whereabouts of. After

“Rae-.”

lie. She doesn’t exist.” His jaw tensed as he looked at me, making

I saw it in your face every

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

a cumulation of both the

ME, KIERAN,”

isn’t something you can mend like my poisoning or

genuinely good person, believing the best still exists inside

it’s not there. It never will

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

a fight, and I sighed. I was letting my emotions seep in again, something that

problem now was… how.

were still guarding the stairs, yet we were too many floors up for me to safely utilise a window escape. I was trapped unless I intended to fight my

to take her

“Let him decide what to do with her.”

pissed. Probably rightfully

I swear to

really want to defend her? A child of the monsters who killed your mother? Our other pack members? So many died in that war because

Siblings?” he argued. “Because her entire family

…I hadn’t.

This went both

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