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 touch. You will

in my throat. "Even have him at important points, like your

without me, but now it was an option. One he never had. "Please, swear it to be true. That I

swear it." I rubbed my hand against his cheek. "I will make sure you are there for

every day." Carly's voice was a whisper as she laid back down next to him and he hugged her to

other hand on her head, and I looked up at my grandma. "I'm not

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

and then she was gone. I looked at Erubus, and I watched as he decided. He

closer to me.

His words were filled with hurt, but he was

again. I turned back to the two in my lap.

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