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Chapter 82: "You knew."
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Caelum nods when I say that and it takes some time, it takes me some time for me to fully process it all, but I find myself chuckling, and when I look up at Caelum again, I find I can't say anything else than what I've said twice now.“You knew.”Caelum nods again and I feel something shift in my mind as I stare at the ceiling once more. The height of it makes the house feel all the more real to me to an extent and I don't know why but I let it ground me.I let the slight look of uncertainty I had seen in Caelum’s eyes bring my mind back to the right track, and with all this knowledge, I look at the situation with new eyes, and I repeat it over and over in my mind again, that he knew.I had always wondered at why Volta was so loose.Why they were so freehanded. Why they would literally not report us to the authorities whenever Ulric tried to sneak contraband into our products and get them shipped overseas?It’s because he knew.Caelum owns Volta. He’s known from the start that Ulri
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Caelum doesn’t let us speak about Volta, and in the spirit of that, I let myself relax in his arms for the rest of the day. I realize it’s nice to sit in Caelum’s highrises’s arms. He doesn’t like it when I call him Highrise, and I realize I don't like it too much.Mostly because the name Highrise reminds me too much of the family connected to it, yet at the end of the day, my daughter bears that name. I bear that name.I want to stop bearing it because of the man who’s made the name a noose around my neck. Ulroic made the highrise name a rope by which he could tug me this way and that, and I let him. I let him do that out of the obligation I felt to be responsible for that name.Ulric made me hate the Highrise name, but Ravenna and Caelum make me feel like some good can come out of it.Like there’s hope, for me and for all of us who bear the name Highrise by association, and not by inheritance.“What are you thinking about?”I hear Caelum’s words strike chords in my heart and another
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Caelum’s face is scrunched in a light frown when he watches the video, but I notice there’s nothing foul about the frown.He looks conflicted, like he’s trying to decide on something and he can’t, so he’s keeping quiet about it. Mulling over it again and again in his thoughts.I feel a surge of worry and concern go through me and I speak without thinking about it any longer, “If you’re worried about the weapons and your identity, I'm sure we can find a way to get the video pulled down.I can.I can find a way to help with that. This video is only up because you came to save me, and I don't want that to affect you.” I realize how sappy I sound and some rebellious spirit in me lets out a barf sound, nope, it’s Alora. I shoot her a glare, and she looks away as she chuckles, but I feel Caelum’s gaze accurately on me. I feel the intensity of it, the moment it alights on me, and I feel the emotion that courses through it, his gaze bathes me in a subtle heat, like sunlight.And through it,
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I do not ask Caelum for permission to go out anymore.My mind has already brought up another way of getting what I need to do, done, and though it wouldn’t be the most conventional way, I still accept it as a way because it is… and asking for permission to go out, would mean I’d have to go out if he agrees, and i don’t want to because that would entail me leaving his side,And I don't want to.I realized it as soon as Caelum started speaking to me and I started seeing him smile from some of the responses I gave him. His voice is filled with light wonder as he peers down at me from where he’s seated and asks,“You’re really the daughter of an Alpha?”I nod, not feeling offended at the fact that he’s making that statement, or that he seems to find the need to ask that question. Not many people know I am the daughter of an Alpha, but it seems like an important thing for my mate to know, and he did say he wanted to understand me.To understand me, he has to understand my background, and h
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Caelum chuckles, and it’s a laughing kind of chuckle because I enjoy it. I hear his laughter, I hear the sound of it and I enjoy its raspy timbre. I enjoy how he sounds like he just can’t believe his ears. And I enjoy how his eyes seem to gleam a bit, whether with remorse or happiness - I don't know - as he asks, “How is my reason for killing more noble than yours?”Caelum asks a simple question, but it strikes me as hard because I would have to be honest with him on this, and I don't think I have been honest with anyone about this in a long time now.I don’t think anyone really cared to know, so I've never told them. Not Violet, or Ulric, or any of the people I considered family.I feel comfortable when I tell Caelum, “My reason for killing him was anger.”Something primal gleams behind Caelum’s eyes and I suddenly feel so small when he places his gaze on me.Like he could swallow me up with the intensity of that gaze, and I'd let him. Light goosebumps trail up my skin as I clear my
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