Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 283

Chapter 283

I was out there for over an hour before someone came out and checked on me. I had zoned out, sinking deep into the rage I had pushed away as I dug into the soft dirt. Every time I blinked, my mind flashed to Carl's last breath, me looking up to seek my friends, my people and having my eyes fall on Rowan. "So fucking stupid." I mumbled to myself.

I gave a soft sigh. "I should have figured you were out here brooding." Toya sat at the edge of my hole. I kept digging, ignoring her words. I wasn't brooding. I was digging a grave. I must have mumbled exactly that, because Toya chuckled. "Two things can be true at the same time."

I snapped my head up and I pointed at her. "Shut up." She raised her hands in surrender, and I had to close my eyes and clench my jaw. "Sorry." But I turned back to digging.

She sighed again. "Amy..."

"No." I wouldn't let her finish.

listen to me." She huffed out and I slammed

out to say and be done with it."

because he kept his wolf hidden from you." She said it as a statement, not a question, so I didn't say anything. She raised her brow and then continued. "But you and Nix did

to be Erubus. Goddess, if it was just that, I would have been happy. Estatic even. Nix had set her eyes on him, and I...” I trailed off as I felt my tears burn behind my eyes. "I wanted Rowan. I wanted him so fucking desperately, I begged him. Begged him to help me." I felt a traitorous tear fall, and I slapped it away, smearing dirt onto my face. "But he left me. They left me.

"But?"

the wolf that Nix was set on just told the entire kingdom that he is engaged." I looked up at her and I felt more tears fall. "He said I was his. I was his, but his wolf was set

down at

be mad. Okay. I know this is stupid." I grabbed the shovel. "But he was supposed to wait." There I said it. "He was supposed to follow the plan and wait. He was supposed to pretend to date these fucking women and then we were supposed to take down

at me and I felt my

told you I know it's stupid. My head is saying one thing, but my heart is saying another." I started to dig again. "That's why I walked away from him. I couldn't face him. Not that second. At that moment, I felt like he had lied to me all over again. That he walked away from me when I needed him,

wouldn't be your friend if I didn't question you." She turned. "You both have your own things going on. And you both have your

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