A Gift from the Goddess

Book Two-Ch.# 37

“NO!” Kieran roared.

And right as the dagger pierced the surface of my shoulder, Daniel was promptly pushed off me.

“I said *don’t touch her*,” he growled.

The weight of his words fell over everyone in the room, and once again I experienced the tangible sway of his order.

“Kieran,” Daniel huffed out, unable to get back up to his feet. “She-.”

“No, enough! You’re hereby forbidden from moving until further notice,” Kieran said. ” That goes for you too Allison. Sit down. Now. And I don’t want to hear another word from either of you.”

Allison gritted her teeth but did as she was told.

“What… What is that?” I asked. “What did you do to them?”

Kieran looked defeated as he straightened back up, unable to meet my eyes. He simply stared at two people he held dear as they were trapped on the floor.

“An Alpha heir order,” he said. “It’ll only hold them long enough until a full ranked member arrives though.”

“Kieran-.”

“Leave… Rae,” he said quietly. “I can’t do anything else for you now.”

The pain in his voice was clear, an echo in it that stung me. I didn’t want to upset him further, and so, with one hand covering the shallow new wound to my shoulder, I hobbled back to my feet to grab the book and dagger.

“There’s a cupboard to your left which has an emergency hidden staircase inside it. Use that and follow it all the way down. It’ll take you to the car park outside safely without being seen.”

Just as he’d said, upon inspecting the cupboard, there was indeed a staircase inside. But as I stared into the dark passage ahead, I hesitated once more.

…This was the last time I might see him. Did I really want to leave things like this? With lies intended to push him away and a head full of questions?

“Kieran… I…,” I said, my voice trailing off.

So many things I wanted to say, to explain, to ask about. All of which would take too long to get through. And so, in the end, I settled for one thing.

Just one line.

“…I’m sorry,” I whispered.

And I slipped through the doorway without another word, beginning the descent down.

“This isn’t over, Rae,” he called out behind me. “I’ll find you. I promise.”

But I just wiped at the stray tear that had escaped my eye and kept walking.

There were a lot of promises that were made lately. Too many.

“Do yourself a favour for both our sakes, Kieran,” I said quietly. “…Forget about me. My survival might just rely on that very thing.”

I knew what awaited me now. The only remaining path left.

A path that would lead me to the one place I ever truly belonged.

Back into the shadow of my father.

But first… first I had a job to do.

had been long. Perhaps too long for an impatient man such

had happened, simply just trying to get through the day without breaking down. To keep moving without remembering his face or

Kieran anymore. He didn’t exist as of

it was only me

to hide my presence, an entire species probably soon intending to hunt me down. Because if a war could span over fifty years because of one pack, then I was sure that

of hatred on Allison’s face still haunted me every

are…,” I said to myself in the confines

very thing that had

was ruined because of you. Perhaps if you’d never existed, I could have lived my life in ignorance until death came for me. That sounds better than this… than now living

a girl doing her job. And I pushed

took a couple of minutes to crack into the lock, Miles clearly not investing enough in security, but soon enough I caught my first glimpse of the coveted

documents my father had been after.

could see

father’s business to dust. Yes… Miles was a smuggler, but at some point he must have switched sides. Probably working for someone who had it in their best interest to see my

to risk it all to get back… even if

together, I did catch one thing. Something that wasn’t quite like everything else. It looked almost like a

the passage pertained to an associate

of that fact every day by my fortune; with my business and my Raven. It is through

both in business and in personal life. Never even so much as bringing a casual one-night stand over to the house, let alone ever speaking about a woman with such adoration; not like

like the man I knew of. Not the cold-hearted, business focused father who

Not Eric Reid.

I instantly snapped the folder of documents closed,

such a thing would get me in trouble. But I’d figured since I’d

reasons. The new information merely added more questions to my already confused head.

And I sighed.

into the reality of my world, the more dark truths I discovered. Truths that would only lead me into situations I was

evil… a mistake. Undeserving.

My father could have them back and

down that the

it fell next to the

up out of curiosity at the time but then somehow hung onto

new path of opportunity for me to take, one that could possibly lead to

as they laid side by

a book with a title topic I was

Silver Mist’ the front cover read. ‘A history of The Winter Mist and

Silver Lake’.

I would find inside upon reading. Though some information was better than nothing. Better than… being spat. at for

down another search into who I was?

the millionth time. It felt as though I’d had a part of myself torn away when I’d

My other half.

My… mate.

person I lo-.

No.

going down this

Rheyna…

time for me to go home.

is exactly what I did.

as I entered the house, the place quiet now within the late hour of the night. This was my longest time being away and it

A needed one.

brightly through, emanating from down the hallway.

father was

angry? Had he somehow discovered what I’d been up