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Chapter Seventy
…. With a sudden lurch inside my chest, my eyes flew open. I was gasping heavily, trying to compensate for the suffocation that had afflicted me only moments earlier.
… Except I wasn’t mounted on the glass shard anymore....
I was in my bed.
My hands frantically grabbed at my body, inspecting for any sign of damage… but there wasn’t any.
So it wasn’t real? But I had felt it. It couldn’t be a dream. I know it wasn’t a dream.
But it ended up easier than expected to figure out exactly what had happened.
The nausea hit me first, forcing me to throw myself over the side of the bed and empty out the contents of my stomach. Then the ringing in my ears followed… then, finally, the bloody nose.
...It was a vision. Easily the longest one I’d ever had; the realest one I’d ever had. Somehow it had been strong enough to show itself even with my collar, now punishing me with the worst side effects I’d ever had to date.
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I awoke the next day sometime in the mid-afternoon. Not that it was very surprising given the events that had occurred the night before. Confusion was my initial reaction, finding myself in a strange bed, before my mind finally caught up. It still all seemed so crazy that, had it not been for the aching in my body, perhaps I would have thought the entire thing was just a nightmare. Or maybe I could have at least pretended it was. I changed into some clothes that were left for me and made my way into the living room, my movements all still incredibly stiff… only I found the quarters to be completely empty. I knew it was unreasonable to expect Aleric to be here but a part of me was still on edge from almost being kidnapped. Had he left to speak to Tytus in my stead? A knocking then came from the front door, making me jump, and I approached it warily. “Yes?” I called out. Without any warning, the door then swung open to reveal Alexander behind it
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“...What’s her name?” I found myself asking politely, though I didn’t really feel present.Truthfully, I didn’t feel much of anything. My body had gone completely numb, falling into autopilot responses as I struggled to come to terms with what Cai had just told me.He found his mate.But he was only nineteen. He shouldn’t have found her so soon.‘Caius knight dies at the age of twenty-one with no Luna, mate or child’. That was the future for Cai I had known. Yet somehow this timeline had changed enough that he had met her earlier. It was a cruel slap in the face as reality reminded me, once more, that it would refuse to ever let me be happy. Even for just the few years I thought I might have had with him.“Caitlyn,” he replied awkwardly. “She seems… nice. Sweet.”‘Nice’? Really? That was the best he could say about the woman
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A Gift from the Goddess Chapter Seventy-Four
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