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.

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

what he had said. ‘Biggest issue’ being my past. Because he

from me? Why

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

felt before. He’d known this

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

I felt myself sink deeper inside,

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

in. “She’s a descendant of the

were. She was an orphan of war, somehow surviving long enough to still be tortured by our pack despite

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

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

Sterling,” I said quietly, my voice cutting through the

me. I

“Rae!”

or Devil.

up and 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

I was done.

out over hearing my confession, tears starting to fall down

to her, Kieran! She is literally admitting that

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

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

“What…?”

finally, Kieran looked surprised.

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

“Rae-.”

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

said. “You wanted to stay here with me, I know it. I saw it in your face every day we were together. I promised to protect you, and I

push him away was only making this harder. Too hard

bubble of frustration and sadness surfaced all at once, a cumulation

CAN’T FIX ME,

This isn’t something you can mend like my poisoning or shifting. Stop trying to

genuinely good person, believing the

there. It never

finally raised my voice in anger. It must have made him uncomfortable, unsure

seep in again, something that

now

me to safely utilise a window escape. I was trapped unless I intended to fight my way out. Something that I wanted to avoid where possible.

take her to your father,

Daniel said. “Let him decide what to do

having that. He looked… pissed. Probably rightfully so

swear to the Goddess, Daniel…,” Kieran

to defend her? A child of the monsters who killed your mother? Our other

argued. “Because her entire

…I hadn’t.

was right. This went both

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