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.

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

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 possibly

know? Let alone keep this from me? Why bring me here at

my suspicions after I found out about the silver 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 by a considerable margin. Of which, there was only one other in

stung me unlike anything I’d felt

well that this might happen one day. That it was information

felt myself sink deeper inside,

Secrets that had dire consequences.

you, Kieran!” Allison chimed in. “She’s a descendant of the Siren. Manipulation

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.

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.

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

I said quietly, my voice cutting

it was me. I killed him.”

“Rae!”

crimes, I’m no innocent, Kieran. Pick a title; Rogue or Devil. Because the same meaning still applies. I don’t belong here. I

be someone I wasn’t… and exhausted of now defending myself against something I couldn’t change. My body

I was done.

tears starting

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

killed him, I would have. He overstepped a line and was trying to abandon Ashwood, breaking our rules in

interjected before

what he was. What you

“What…?”

finally, Kieran looked

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,

“Rae-.”

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

in your face every day we were together. I promised

complete denial at letting me push him away was only making

frustration and sadness surfaced all at once, a cumulation of both the revelations today and the confliction from last night.

CAN’T FIX ME, KIERAN,” I

you can mend like

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

there. It never

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

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

only problem now was… how.

too many floors up for me to safely utilise a window escape. I

to take her to your father,

him decide what to do

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

swear to the Goddess, Daniel…,”

your mother? Our other pack members? So

entire family is dead because of

…I hadn’t.

This went both