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.

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

have him at important points,

mine. "Swear it." I could see the pleading in his eyes. This was something he could never experience without me, but now it was an option. One he never had. "Please, swear it to be true. That I can come back

his cheek. "I will make sure you

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

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

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

then she was gone. I looked at Erubus,

closer to me.

filled with hurt, but he was right, so I just nodded. He closed his eyes. "Remember your

started to cough again. I turned back

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