A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 21

Chapter Twenty-One ! IMPORTANT ! (AUTHOR NOTE): Hi everyone! The GoodNovel APP version does not support formats (e.g. bold, italics etc), meaning this chapter might be a little difficult to understand at first. To make it easier, I’ve now added ‘*” to speech that is being said ONLY in Aria’s head (as a memory of her past). In future chapters, I will also be using single quotes’ for just things Aria says to herself internally. An author note reminder will be added to the next chapter it’s used, which hopefully assists in reading/understanding what’s happening. No…

He couldn’t be here. He wasn’t supposed to be here yet.

1*”You are nothing, Ariadne,’*’I heard his voice speak in my head, an old memory replaying from my past life. ‘*”You are only here because I let you be here.”*’

No, please, no… I’m not ready… ‘*”You have been found guilty of the charges against you.“* 

Cold, familiar green eyes stared down at me.

Piercing. Like a tiger watching its prey with curiosity. “*”Therefore, with the power held within me, I, Aleric Dumont, Alpha of the Winter Mist Pack...” 

I took two steps back slowly, unable to take my eyes off the man in front of me. ‘*”…Sentence you, Ariadne Chrysalis, former Luna of the Winter Mist Pack...”*) “Aria?” a familiar friendly voice called out beside me. However, I couldn’t register their words.

1*”…To death.”*’

I fell backwards to the floor in front of the man who had been my death.

…Who will be my death.

“*”Your sentence is to be carried out immediately.“*‘ 

No, please, make it stop.

my brain tried to convince me this wasn’t real, that the voice was just a memory inside my head and nothing

stop… stop… STOP… STOP….STOP… STOP...

trying to force the memories to leave

“Ariadne?”

his voice. It broke through my mental turmoil enough to make me freeze. It

are you here?” I managed to whisper. However, I wasn’t sure if

called me back home due t o an emergency with that girl who was attacked. I’ve only

Alpha,” he said, a tone o fannoyance in his voice. The way he spoke wasn’t filled with the same level of hatred that I had become accustomed to hearing,

get up. You’re embarrassing me in

what he was saying but all I could see was the swing of the broadsword before it hit my neck Over… and over… and over… and over again.... “Are you honestly just going to completely ignore what I’m saying to you?” he said, increasingly becoming angrier. I couldn’t get my body to respond.

...So helpless.

was fated to control

it! Get up right now!” I could feel the tone of his Alpha authority trying

move, he eventually lost patience and reached his hand out towards me. And at that, my body finally did

away as I held my hands up

…Only it never came.

looked at his arm and, to my surprise, I saw how it was positioned as if he had been planning to pull me to my feet rather than slap me. I’d acted on

her and leave her be,” Cai said, stepping in. Cai was here. This was real. This wasn’t the trial grounds. Aleric wouldn’t be able to kill me without a valid reason

the involuntary flinch that shook me once again; the sight of his

the looks of things that she really doesn’t feel like being around you right now. Probably best to also keep in mind she’s been in a coma for the

reassurance, but I couldn’t make myself lose sight of Aleric. My

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