A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 120: Book Two – Chapter 12

“Rae…I do believe this guy is alive,” Zac said.

The two of us were peering into the cupboard, looking at a very tied up and very terrified looking Noah.

“Yep,” I replied.

“Right…right….And, just to make sure we’re on the same page here, you are aware that normally I don’t see this part, right? That I come in afterwards?”

“I’m aware.”

At the sound of the conversation, Noah immediately started to squirm and plead to Zac with his eyes, hoping that he would help free him.

Not that it would do him any good.

“So, what’s the hold up?” Zac asked, still confused.

“Isn’t this just another Thursday for you? I’ve seen you do worse.”

He was right.This really wasn’t that abnormal of a job for me to do.

But I gritted my teeth at his question nevertheless, hating how I had ended up in this situation.

“I…can’t,” I said, deflating in defeat.

“I can’t do it.”

“You can’t…do it…,” Zac repeated slowly.

“And why is it—.”

“Look, I just can’t, okay?” I said, cutting him off, irritated at all the questions.

“I’ve tried.I even tried again before you got over here.I can’t do it, I can’t do it, I can’t do it.End of discussion.”

“…So why am I here? Just tell your dad that —.”

“No.”

Of course, Zac would suggest that.He didn’t know about every dark secret my father was hiding, only ever seeing as far as he needed to.

“No, I can’t tell him,” I said.

“…And you can’t tell him either.”

“Rae, the boss is expecting this guy dead,” he said, taking a step back to look at me.

“I’m not really sure what’s going on, but you do realise he’ll find out sooner or later, right? You can’t just keep him locked up in a cupboard forever.”

“Okay, fine! Fine…,” I sighed in frustration, before slowly locking up to meet his eyes.

“…Then you do it.”

Immediately, his face paled.

“What?! Rae, no! No,” he blurted out.

“I don’t do that.”

“c’mon, Zac,” I whined.

“It’s not that different from cleaning up.Both have a lot of blood.I can talk you through it.Here…just grab this dagger like this…and then hold it in your hand facing—.”

“Raven, stop!”

I’d been trying to get him to wield the weapon but he immediately held his hands up and stepped away.

“Just…chill,” he said.

“I’m not going to kill someone.”

“Argh! I spun around and angrily started pacing the room, beginning to get more worried as every second passed.I didn’t understand why this had to be so difficult.It shouldn’t be this hard.Any other day, I could have done this job with my eyes closed.Why was I struggling to kill one random man? Who even was this guy? A small brown wallet then caught my attention as it sat on top of a table, and I walked over to inspect it.

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doesn’t this guy look sort of familiar?”

as I went

shop…a membership to a laundromat?

then, finally, I

sort of looks like that

Zac continued.

from a

reading the name on

Kennedy.Wasn’t he the guy from the clean-up a few days ago?” I slowly spun around to look at Zac,

this guy’s last name,” I

“Noah Kennedy.”

look at the man

Miles was an underground businessman

tried to pull a fast one over

he have acquired problematic documents relating to him? But…‘clean up’.That’s how

disappearance? …If that were true…then didn’t

walked over to Noah and pulled out the cloth

I would have agreed that talking to the future murder victim was possibly the dumbest thing I could ever do…but

please,” he immediately

anything.Just…don’t

I

face blanked for a moment

“What about Miles?”

in the mood for people not answering my questions plainly.I’d already had

to his eye level and sunk m y dagger into

pulling the knife back

repeat myself

squirmed in fear but managed to huff out a ‘yes’, his head quickly

“Howe”

m-my brother,”

pinched the bridge of my nose, already knowing I was going to hate where this

last time you heard

the bar on Saturday.I think

swear! I’ve been looking for him but it’s like he’s just disappeared….Is that why you’re here? Does this have something to do with

That caught my attention.

‘Business’.

was something that held my curiosity and yet

already

dealings, it was just to carry out his

of me

whether or not his death sentence today

asked the question I knew I

Miles involved

“Rae—.”

repeated, interrupting Zac before

know how bad of an idea this was,

also under the same orders to not pry

“Smuggling,” Noah answered.

goods from

knew I should have stopped.No, I *definitely* shouldn’t have wanted to keep going….But I couldn’t seem to stop

I asked

as if I

this city would be shady enough to

Fuck.

Fuck, fuck, fuck.

An employee.

been a goddamn

or a

…I killed an employee*.

at all? Was he trying to run away or snitch on my father? …Did he find out something he shouldn’t have? And

someone want to betray aman as powerful as my father? Someone who would know better than most in this city what going against him entailed? There were too many

to pause for a moment and stop tunnelling down a thought process that

of the why, I was now left with a very important ‘what’; As in, what the hell was I going to do about Noah? And I