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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look sort of familiar?” I heard Zac say

him as I went digging through

reward one…a rental shop…a membership to a laundromat?

finally, I

of looks

Zac continued.

from a few

reading the

clean-up a few days ago?” I slowly spun around to look at Zac, my mind now racing with

guy’s

“Noah Kennedy.”

to look at

him? I’d thought that Miles was an underground businessman or some

who’d tried to pull a

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

because he was digging into his disappearance? …If that were true…then didn’t

out the cloth I’d stuffed into his

to the future murder victim was possibly the dumbest thing I could ever do…but I felt

go, please,” he immediately started

do anything.Just…don’t

related to Miles?” I

for a moment before

“What about Miles?”

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

eye level and sunk m y dagger into the wall directly next to his head, causing him to jump

pulling the knife

myself for the

to huff out a ‘yes’,

“Howe”

brother,”

nose, already

was the last

never showed up at the bar on Saturday.I

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

That caught my attention.

‘Business’.

my curiosity and yet I knew I shouldn’t

had already

investigate my father’s dealings, it was just

part of

or not his death sentence

so I asked the question

was Miles

“Rae—.”

interrupting Zac before

an idea this was, just as I

also under the same orders

“Smuggling,” Noah answered.

and rare goods

should have stopped.No, I *definitely* shouldn’t have wanted to

I asked

he looked at me as if

city would

Fuck.

Fuck, fuck, fuck.

An employee.

been a goddamn

criminal or a rivaling businessman.He was on

…I killed an employee*.

to run away or snitch on my father? …Did he find out something he shouldn’t have?

what was in them? If they were harmful, then what could make 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

pause for a moment and stop tunnelling down a thought process that had no end

a very important ‘what’; As in, what the hell was I going to do about Noah?