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Kaden. That name keeps playing in my head over and over again like a broken record. I don’t know what it is about it, but it sends shivers down my spine.
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I frown as I try to think about why it would affect me in that way. It wasn’t a name I knew. It was just a random name, yet it has an effect on me that I can’t understand no matter how much I try.
try shaking myself from the thoughts, but nothing. It’s like my mind is stuck on that one name. I don’t know anyone by that name, so it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
Trying to focus, I clench my fingers in an effort to keep myself grounded. To keep tethered to reality, but it doesn’t work. My heart starts racing really fast the more I think about that name. The more my
brain focuses on it.
My vision blurs as my eyes become unfocused. It’s like I am in a damn trance. A trance I can’t pull myself from no matter how much I try.
There is something about it that I just don’t get. An array of emotions assaults me all at once, and my breathing becomes deep as I struggle to fully grasp what the hell is happening to me. Fear, pain, sadness, bitterness, anger and betrayal. At the top of that list were betrayal, fear, pain and complete
heartbreak.
What the hell was happening to me? Why did I feel this way towards someone I didn’t even know?
It’s all so fucking confusing. I can’t make any sense out of it.
“Sadie, are you alright?”
I jump in my chair, startled when a hand on my shoulders gently shakes me. I look towards the person to find Alec watching me with concern. Not really knowing what to say, I avoid his questioning gaze and look around the room, only to find everyone staring at me.
My thoughts are jumbled and a mess. I also can’t help the thought that that name feels really familiar. Which, when you think about it, is weird because I am sure I wouldn’t have forgotten that kind of
name.
I swallow, “Yes, yes, I am okay.”
As much as I wanted to tell them what’s bothering me, I couldn’t. I didn’t understand it myself, so how the hell was I supposed to explain it to them? How am I supposed to when I didn’t even know what it
meant?
“Raven, you were saying…” Micah picks up the conversation.
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Her eyes were narrowed at me, but when Micah calls her name, she forces her focus back on what
matters.
“Like I was saying, I think I found out who is imprisoned here. I believe his name is Kaden,” she repeats once again.
Just like earlier, my heart misses a beat at the mention of that name. Yeah, something is seriously wrong with me.
“How did you find out?” Jason asks, his complete focus on Raven.
Raven doesn’t miss a beat as she sits down and starts explaining. “Well, it kept bothering me, especially since I didn’t find anything of use in the pack library. I got the idea of checking it out somewhere else. My mom always told me that, just like wolves, witches also have libraries, and so do vampires.”
She takes a pause before she continues. “I decided to reach out to the nearest witch coven. Like we had established, loads of power was used to cast that spell, and if so, then a witch or warlock was probably involved. The good thing is that they granted me authorization once they learned that I was
a witch. I combed their text going back hundreds of years. That’s when I came across that name.”
“Go on,” Alec urges when Raven stops talking. She sends him a glaring look but continues.
“According to the texts, Kaden is the son of the god Erebus.”
“Wait,” Piper interrupts. “Erebus as in the Greek primordial god of darkness?”
We all turn to look at her questioningly.
“What?” she asks, her eyebrows raised.
“How do you even know that?” Alec is the one that questions her while Micah and Jason stare at her
with confusion.
Piper shrugs her shoulders as if it’s not that of a big deal. “I’ve always been fascinated with deities, so
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I started researching them in high school just so I’d know the different kinds of gods and goddesses there are, but I didn’t know he had a son named Kaden.”
The three of them nod their heads in understanding before Raven continues. “According to the texts, Kaden is a demi–god. Erebus kept him hidden until he came into his power. Erebus was the first god to ever sleep with a human and get her pregnant. They didn’t even know it was possible back then. When Kaden was born, the idea of demi gods and goddesses was unheard of, so trebus kept him hidden with his mother, afraid of what would happen if the other deities found out. By the time Kaden ascended into his powers, a few other gods had gotten humans pregnant, so there was no longer a
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need to keep his son hidden. Since he was half god and the son of a primordial at that, Erebus took him from earth and brought him to live with him.”
The more Raven told the story of Kaden, the more uncomfortable I got. For some reason, uneasel rooted itself inside, and I couldn’t settle no matter how much I tried.
“The texts I read don’t really say what his powers are, but according to them, he mostly kept to himself. You have to understand that deities don’t age like we do. When Kaden turned about a hundred years old, he started changing. His powers grew, and his aura became darker, like he had been corrupted or something. He started going against his father, the fates and other deities. He simply became uncontrollable.”
My anxiety and panic started increasing the more I heard about him. I couldn’t place my fear or anxiety, I couldn’t place the reason why I felt like something heavy was weighing down on my chest. I couldn’t explain why the mention of his name was wreaking havoc inside me.
“Kaden started talking about ruling both the heavens and the earth. He wanted dominion and power. It’s like he was drunk from it and wanted more despite it driving him crazy. He rejected the very plan the fates had for him and fought against the path chosen for him. Kaden started a war and he almost won. The deities fought him. The texts said that the moon goddess had a vested interest in Kaden’s
defeat, and she played the biggest role in bringing him down. According to the text, she wasn’t able to completely destroy or defeat him given his powers and the backup he had, so she imprisoned him in
an unknown location.”
I felt as if my heart and head were going to explode. Everything was coming to me and I could barely understand what was happening or what I was feeling. My head feels like it’s about to explode with the weight of what was happening.
My breath is coming in fast and hard as I try to force myself to calm down. I feel like escaping. Like the room was suffocating me. I needed to get away from this room and the words that were coming out of
Raven’s mouth.
“Wow,” Jason mutters, looking as if he were shocked and speechless. “I don’t know what I expected,
but it wasn’t this.”
“I truly believe that it’s Kaden imprisoned here,” Raven says, completely ignoring Jason.
“It could be,” Alec mumbles thoughtfully, “You did say that whoever was imprisoned here was really powerful. If it is Kaden, it could explain the power you felt given that he’s a damn demi–god.”
Micah picks up right after Alec is done. “It could also explain why she also felt darkness and evil emanating from the imprisoned person, if Kaden’s aura really did turn dark.”
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I don’t really say anything because what’s more to say? Deep down though, I am sure that it is Kaden. I don’t know how I know or why I am sure it’s him imprisoned here, but I trust my gut, and it’s telling me that Kaden, the first ever demi–god, is imprisoned here somewhere.
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