A Gift from the Goddess by Dawn Rosewood

Chapter 21

 In future chapters, I will also be using single quotes’ for just things Aria says to herself internally. An author note reminder will be added to the next chapter it’s used, which hopefully assists in reading/understanding what’s happening. No…

He couldn’t be here. He wasn’t supposed to be here yet.

1*”You are nothing, Ariadne,’*’I heard his voice speak in my head, an old memory replaying from my past life. ‘*”You are only here because I let you be here.”*’

No, please, no… I’m not ready… ‘*”You have been found guilty of the charges against you.“* 

Cold, familiar green eyes stared down at me.

Piercing. Like a tiger watching its prey with curiosity. “*”Therefore, with the power held within me, I, Aleric Dumont, Alpha of the Winter Mist Pack...” 

I took two steps back slowly, unable to take my eyes off the man in front of me. ‘*”…Sentence you, Ariadne Chrysalis, former Luna of the Winter Mist Pack...”*) “Aria?” a familiar friendly voice called out beside me. However, I couldn’t register their words.

1*”…To death.”*’

I fell backwards to the floor in front of the man who had been my death.

…Who will be my death.

“*”Your sentence is to be carried out immediately.“*‘ 

No, please, make it stop.

I covered my ears feebly as the rational side of my brain tried to convince me this wasn’t real, that the voice was just a memory inside my head and nothing more. 

stop… STOP… STOP….STOP… STOP...

rock, trying to force

“Ariadne?”

his voice. It broke through my mental turmoil enough to make

I managed to whisper. However, I wasn’t sure if I was asking the

be here, right? They called me back home due t o an emergency with that girl who

to present yourself in this manner to your future Alpha,” he said, a tone o fannoyance in his voice. The way he spoke wasn’t filled with the

please get up. You’re embarrassing me in front of a future Alpha within

over… and over… and over again.... “Are you honestly just going to completely ignore what I’m saying to you?” he said, increasingly becoming angrier. I couldn’t get my body to respond. Nothing I did would let me take control. I was helpless to him, just as I had been

...So helpless.

fated to control my life no matter

of his Alpha authority trying to command m e, but even that wasn’t able to get through

patience and reached his hand out towards

hands up in defence against the slap

…Only it never came.

stretched out having stopped midway before making contact. I looked at his arm and, to my surprise, I saw how it was positioned as if he had been planning to pull me to my feet rather than slap me. I’d acted on impulse when there had been no real danger of physical

not to touch her and leave her be,” Cai said, stepping in. Cai was here. This was real. This wasn’t the trial grounds. Aleric wouldn’t be able to

the involuntary flinch that shook me once again; the sight of his quick movement towards me

say by the looks of things that she really doesn’t feel like being around you right now. Probably best to also keep in

my trembling shoulder. I wanted to look at him, to look into his kind eyes for reassurance, but I couldn’t make myself lose sight of Aleric. My body’s natural reaction was to fear the pain he could inflict at any

Aleric growled. “She doesn’t belong

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