Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 278

Chapter 278

Carl looked up at her. "Leeway? How?"

"What's leeway?" Carly sat up against Carl, still clinging to him, but grasping on to the tiny thread of hope she was being handed.

"Leeway, my girl, means the goddess looks away when I nip down here to see my girl here." She leaned over and I felt the ghost of her lips on my forehead. "When something like this happens, Carl. The goddess looks the other way when, say, someone calls for you.'

"How is this possible?" Hanna looked at me, and then back at my grandmother.

She smiled up at my friends. "You know of her magic." The girls nodded, but Erubus stayed still. I saw the tiny smile that sprang to her lips as her eyes landed on him. "Well, Amy sacrifices a tiny amount of magic to call for me, and another to help me come to this plane." She waved her hands at me. "When she needs me, I come. Do you know what that means, little one?" Carly shook her head as my grand mother dropped to her knees beside me. She raised her hands to hold Carly's face. "It means that when you are really sad, and you need to see your daddy. Amy can call him here for you and the Moon Goddess, in her understanding, will allow him to come to you. So even if he is gone, even hundreds of years from now, if you need him...Amy will bring him here for you."

Carly closed her eyes and tilted her head. "I can't feel you.

baby, you can't. I'm not physically here. But that's just one aspect of love, right? Physical

him at important points, like your

something he could never experience without me, but now it was an option. One he

it." I rubbed my hand against his cheek. "I will make sure you are there for everything." He shuddered and his

him with me every day." Carly's voice was a whisper as she laid back down

answer wavered as my vision blurred. I laid my other hand on her head,

Get ready, my love." She kissed me again. Then she turned to Erubus. "And you...get your head out of your ass. And think for yourself. You are a grown ass man. Grow some balls. You father would be ashamed of you." He flinched at her words, and she softened. "You're a good boy." She looked at me and she leaned into me. "Listen to him when the time comes. You're allowed to be mad. You're allowed to be throw down,

was gone. I looked at Erubus, and I watched

closer to me.

were filled with hurt, but he was right, so I just nodded. He

about?" But before Erubus answered, Carl started to cough again. I turned back to the two in my lap. Carly pulled away and started to

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