Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 382

Chapter 382: The ghost.

Leilani.

For the first few seconds after Kael dropped the bombshell, saying it like it was nothing but a non-serious discussion about the weather, I felt nothing.

Nothing at all.

And then my numbness soon morphed into shock and then joy... before it finally settled on confusion.

I whipped my head around to face them, not missing the satisfied look on Gavin’s face— meaning either one of two things:

He already knows.

Or

He has been expecting that for a long time now.

And I swear to the goddess, I didn’t know how I felt about that. I didn’t know whether to be glad, whether to be sorry for him for being stuck with these three buffoons or if I should just—

"You guys want Gavin to be your Beta?" I hissed through my teeth, ignoring the looks they shared between each other before Zevran decided to fill me in.

He stumbled close to me— mostly because of his illness— and then took my hands in his as he drawled; "Gavin has always been the beta we chose and we would’ve made it formal a long time ago if..."

"Father didn’t die." I finished, lowering my gaze when he nodded. "I understand."

They went ahead to talk about the perks this would bring to ’our family’ but at this point, I had completely clocked out of the conversation.

Hell, I was happy for Gavin. Ecstatic even. I just... I didn’t know how to show it, especially with everything happening at the moment and especially after knowing that Maya was waiting outside.

My breath shuddered at the thought of her and the betrayal she must feel when she learns of my deceit. But shaking the feeling off my chest, I turned to the boys who were obviously having the times of their lives and asked;

"Maya is outside right?" I rasped, immediately changing the subject, and as soon as I did, everyone turned to look at me.

Gavin was the first to snap out of whatever he was lost in, and then he beamed a smile at me. "Yes. She doesn’t wish to come in because she believes she doesn’t look it."

"Doesn’t look what?" That was Caelum, the duffus.

"Look presentable!" Gavin completed, rolling his eyes at him before completely turning to face me. "She hasn’t looked presentable in about two weeks now, which is coincidentally just how long she has walked this earth believing you are dead."

Something about those words stuck out to me. It made my heart twist painfully in my chest, and made guilt— so much guilt that I feared I would choke and die from— claw its way to the base of my throat.

My eyes instantly filled with tears at the thought of what Gavin now wanted me to do— he wanted me to go to her. But for some reason, I felt less courageous.

I drawled; "No."

He didn’t seem surprised. Hell, it was as if he was completely unfazed. His eyes met mine and held in that icy manner that I haven’t been regarded with in a very long time; and in a voice so cold, it made me tremble slightly, he said;

"Then you would hurt her more than you already have."

I walked slowly as he led me to the door, but as we went, I couldn’t help but notice the way Kael and Zevran glared openly at Caelum, nor did I miss the words that Gavin mumbled under his breath next. He snorted; 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

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