A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 119

Book Two – Ch.# 11 

“You were never meant to grow up in a city like this. Our kind stays together for a reason.” I could hear what Kieran was saying, but I was struggling to fully grasp it.

‘Not human.’

‘Our kind’.

‘Werewolf’.

The words kept swimming around in my head. An explanation that seemed too impossible to believe. And yet, at the same time, what he was saying somehow made sense.

He was right. I wasn’t human. A part of me had always known that, dating back to when I was a child. I was never like the other kids at the house. Turning eighteen had just manifested that part of me in the form of a beast.

So… was this what had been missing then?

I was a werewolf? Like in those scary stories?

Like… in those *monster* movies…?

“…How do I make it go away?” I asked after a few moments, my voice barely louder than a whisper. “How do I stop being… a werewolf? To be normal?”

“Raven… it’s a part of who you are. There isn’t any way to remove it.”

“But I don’t want to live with this burden of losing control at any moment,” I argued. “I can’t afford to have slips when things go wrong, or have this constantly interfering with every little thing I do. I’m living in a nightmare every time I lapse.”

He took another few cautious steps towards me but I didn’t back away this time. With every word he spoke, my resolve to push him away faded a little bit more. It was as though his presence had a soothing effect on me and I couldn’t deny that I needed that right now.

“…It doesn’t have to be a curse,” he said slowly. “I can help you manage it. You didn’t grow up learning about the things you needed to… but I can teach you. It’s not too late.”

He held out a hand to me, as if inviting me to take it. Offering me something that no one else had ever before; A chance to live my life without fear.

…But what would it cost me?

“I just need you to trust me, Raven,” he said, making my gaze shift from his hand to his eyes

Familiar. There was familiarity when I looked at him, the same feeling I’d experienced when I first met him. As if I’d always known him. Whatever this reaction to him was, it was strong enough to sway every behaviour in my life.

If I believed him and accepted that this influence wasn’t due to foul intervention, then did that mean that my body had been telling me to trust him this whole time? That it was recognising

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in him the same condition I was born with? Was that just a normal connection between what we were?

getting close to someone was dangerous. Especially someone who I was meant to

as upset if I continued to fail because of what

routines and punishments had been the only ‘solutions’ given to me

with false promises if I kept conforming to the rules. He was offering me a

slow step towards him. “And the sickness? Will I stop wanting

yourself too much. The more you try to stop the shift from happening, the more painful and uncontrollable the whole process is. I can walk you through it and help you so that it won’t happen.” He sounded so genuine that I wanted to believe him. In fact, it was increasingly becoming harder to deny those feelings inside, the ones urging

this… thing… between us. These feelings…,” I vaguely said, my cheeks starting to burn a little. I was used to faking romantic interest in people, but this was different. It was an uncomfortable new situation for me.“… The stuff you spoke about at the charity

“The sparks?” he clarified.

if you really didn’t drug me, then is this a

turn to shuffle a

of a complicated

that had been bothering me since the day we met. I needed to know if there was a way to manage this too so I could

Oh.

the wrong question to ask His eyes immediately snapped back to my own, a look on his face that I was struggling to decipher. It was serious… but there was something else there too. “…Did you want it to stop?”

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ache pulsed in my chest, the question bringing with

same thing I was? I couldn’t be the only one who found this frustrating But then another question came to mind, taking me by surprise. …Did I even want the feelings to go away? Truly?

“…Raven?”

to get over it, but ended up wincing involuntarily

wasn’t able to focus. “You’re probably overwhelming yourself too

basement. My body was worn out and still recovering. “Hey,”

 

of the way so he could lift my face up to

was so unbelievably soothing. Within seconds, I felt as the burning

much stress, confusion and confliction. I must have been pushing myself too hard. Wait…

Oh shit.

completely forgotten about Noah

alright,” I said, though failing to hide the slight falter in my tone. “But I need to leave. I have

ah… I need to know how to shut out the voices,” I said. “I can’t seem to go through

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of surprise, I saw the number flash across the screen and recognised it immediately. “Sorry… I have to take this…,” I said turning around, and proceeded to hit the answer’ button. “Hello? Rae?” the voice on the other end asked. Clearing my

strange. He was meant to be cleaning up a dead body by now. A body that was still

…Fuck.

postpone,” I lied, conscious of the fact that Kieran could hear me. “The client wasn’t home so I said I’d come back later.

“What? Rae, I thought—.”

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