The Alpha's Sunshine

sunshine: thirteen point one

Something had changed within Alison.

It was as if the dormant bitter resentment that had accumulated over the years, had suddenly been awakened by this stranger's confession.

The confession that he had murdered them just to get to her.

Was she supposed to blame herself? Was she supposed to believe that she deserved whatever happened to her next? Or was she supposed to keep fighting like her parents had done to protect her?

She hated that she always had to choose. Back then, she had chosen to look at what happened as ill fate, and had chosen to live her life to the fullest and happiest because it had taught her that life was finite. Alison had chosen to look on the bright side, but it was slowly starting to feel like she was running out of positivity and light.

Maybe this one time, she could choose to be negative and bitter about everything that had gone wrong in her life. Starting from her parents' death, to Nick choosing her cousin as Luna instead of his destined mate.

Minutes had gone by after Cadius' confession and his claim that she was some kind of Goddess. It could've been hours even, but nothing could tell time in that small, dark cabin.

"Are you even going to try and deny it?" Cadius asked, curiously.

His sudden question after the silence snapped her out of the trance she had fallen into. Alison could hardly process the fact that her parents' killer was standing right in front of her, and that the reason he killed them was her. She hardly heard him when he said that she was a Goddess.

"Deny that I am some kind of Goddess?" Alison sighed.

"Not just some kind. The Goddess of Love and Light!" Cadius exclaimed, enthusiastically. He thought that everything was going according to plan and it was helping so much that Alison wasn't putting up a fight.

How wrong he was.

"I don't think there's a need for denial since it's not even true."

"What do you mean it's not true? Of course it is, it's just like the prophecy had said."

"And how do you know if the prophecy is even real?"

"Because I found you."

"How are you so sure that I am the right person?" Alison countered.

"Because of the prophecy. How many times do I have to repeat myself?" Cadius rolled his eyes.

"Look, it's obvious that you've got the wrong person. I've been human all my life, there's no way I could be anything else, much less a Goddess," Alison explained, impatiently.

Cadius stayed silent for a while and Alison could see the gears in his head turning. Maybe he'd realize that Alison wasn't who he was looking for and let her go.

But where would she go from there? Everything she had thought about her life and the choices she had made had changed in a matter of minutes. There was nothing else she could go back to.

"I see what you're doing. It took me a while, but I see you," Cadius laughed.

"What am I doing? Apart from sitting here tied up in this chair and being forced to listen to your nonsense," Alison asked snidely.

Ignoring her snarky remark, Cadius explained, "You're trying to protect your identity and deny your Goddess-ness after all! You had me going in circles to confuse me, telling me that I got the wrong person and that the prophecy might not be real. Smart, I have to admit, but not smart enough."

"That is not what is happening! You have the wrong person," she exclaimed out of frustration.

"Don't worry, Alison. Your secret is safe with me," he winked.