Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 364

They all stared back at me with different looks on their faces.

Alannah leaned closer to Ternen. "Will the vow hurt?"

I shook my head. "No, it's just a vow to the goddess to keep whatever we say here secret, even under threat of command or death." Alannah paled. I reached through the middle and held out my hand. “Don't be scared. It doesn't mean you will face death. It just means the goddess recognizes your sincerity for secrecy and she makes it so that we can keep our secrets." I smiled back at her.

Ternen nodded. "I'm ready, but I don't know what to say."

I pulled my hand away and I turned in my seat, so that my back was pressed

against the door. “I, Amy Maclean, vow to keep your words from everyone excerpt the goddess. I swear that nothing you say that could be used against you to cause harm will leave my mouth. Only the goddess will know our secrets and I beg her to keep them for us." I felt the acceptance of my words settle in my chest. I nodded to Ternen, and he repeated my words.

"Holy goddess, I felt this warmth hit my chest. What was it?" He looked at me.

I grinned. "That was the goddess accepting your vow and agreeing to keep our secrets."

Ternen rubbed his chest, awe still on my face. "That was...amazing." He turned to Alannah. "It felt like total acceptance."

she took her own vow. She ended up rubbing her chest too,

against the seat so I could meet her eyes. "Maybe it's

Rick. "I don't know." He seemed

"Why?"

a man full of need. But he closed his eyes and pulled away. “Because

this works." I looked out the window. "Say we go have lunch. We talk about all our secrets. But in between we have small talk, or the server asks us questions. If you are commanded to talk about the lunch, your vow will automatically select the innocuous random questions we discussed. Like the wether, or family issues. Say we talked about my family, in detail. If you were asked, you would just say we talked about my dad. That you remembered old stories about him. I looked back at Rick. "Innocent facts the goddess selects so that nothing can be inferred

"Seriously?" I nodded.

takes to

oath. Once he was finished, his hand shot to the middle of his chest. "Holy hell." He

I stepped out of the truck and

tell us anything."

with me.

long story. And it might make you look at me differently, and that's' okay, But I swear, I would never hurt you or any of your families."

Chapter 364

before

hostess smiled and grabbed the menus. "Yeah." I nodded and looked back. "If it is at all possible, can we have a table away from everyone else?