Terrene (Immortal Coven Book 5) by Amara Rae

Author:Amara Rae [Rae, Amara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Cassandra

Raziel took me three weeks ago, and he still hadn’t taken his payment in full. He never brought it up in the intervening days, and he’d only hinted at it when we discussed demonic matings.

It loomed in the background, but it wasn’t a malevolent shadow over me. It had become a… possibility.

Despite his horrifying confession about the rift, I… trusted him.

I wish Greer was here to tell me how illogical that was. I also wished Colette was here to urge me to follow my heart.

I felt torn between what I wanted to believe and what pessimism and experience dictated.

Was it because of the mate bond? Did it muddle the mind so much that I would trust a demon who told me he wanted to destroy my realm by uniting it with his?

But… I was raised to believe the Goddess didn’t make mistakes.

Even when I thought she did with Greer’s mating, when Aleks rashly and idiotically rejected her out of a misguided need to protect her from his demonic shadow, it turned out the male, while dense, was perfect for her. That he gave her something she couldn’t find with anyone else.

The same thing happened with all of my coven sisters. Their mates, including Makhi, a warlock, someone who should be our immortal enemy considering the centuries of animosity between our kinds, were perfect for them.

Makhi protected Letty, and she gave him peace and kindness.

Naiya tempered Fin’s erratic nature, and he helped shoulder her burdens.

Toric didn’t make Willow hide behind him, and she trusted herself as a warrior when she was with him.

And Aleks admired Greer, loved her for who she was, but also lent her his strength, so she never faltered. She made him a better male by challenging him.

So how could I look at Raziel and think the Goddess made a mistake with me?

Even when I lived through the dark days of my time in my father’s pack, I trusted the Goddess.

She didn’t do harm to me or anyone else.

Immortals and mortals alike had to make choices. We had evil and good within us. We had self-interest and selflessness within us. Disdain and empathy.

My father made his choice. The Goddess gave us powers, greeted us upon our deaths, and selected the mates meant for us—the other halves of the souls only she could see. She didn’t make our choices for us. A mate could harm a mate because of those choices. A parent could reject a child. The witch Elders could betray their own kind for their selfish gain. The Goddess had nothing to do with it.

So now, even knowing Raziel’s intentions, part of my trust in him came from my trust in the Goddess… and that part was unshakable.

But the bulk of it came from his treatment of me.

With every molecule of my being, I knew he would never harm me.

I made a deal with him. I owed him payment for that deal. He never said he would renege on his side of the bargain. In fact,

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