A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 111 Book 2 Chapter 3

Book Two – Ch.#3

Darkness… Darkness, a damp surface and an overwhelming metallic taste greeted me. 

I knew what it was before I even opened my eyes, my last memories immediately reminding me to what had happened. Or, at least, what had happened before I’d lost consciousness. Shaking, I pulled my exhausted body upright to see the damage for myself. … To see the massacre 

And it was a sight that made me want to throw up. 

Bodies laid everywhere around me. Throats torn, claw and bite marks riddling their skin. 

No one had survived. 

No one had survived *me*. 

I’d let it happen again, too weak to stop it. If i’d just regained control sooner, I could have gotten back up to my feet and finished them off, completing the mission per my instructions. But… no, I was a failure. A disappointment. 

A monster. 

The first time something like this had occurred was about four years ago, after my eighteenth birthday. I’d been in a training session with my former tutor, practising during an intense fighting session, when I suddenly felt the sickening change within. ‘Former’ tutor being the key word. They hadn’t survived. 

Ever since then, it had felt like a constant battle inside myself. Pushing down the creature lurking below the surface, hoping more than anything that I didn’t lose control again. Because whilst I was used to death in my line of work, the sheer destructive energy of the wolf beast was so unhinged that it was too unpredictable to be of any benefit. It was something I had no power over. 

I was worried about what would happen if anyone

couldn’t bring Miles back to bir and I knew that I would need to face the punishment of that failure – face *his* punishment. But for now… for now I needed to clean up. And there was only one person to call for that. Crawling along the ground, I began searching for the burner phone I’d concealed on my person earlier. I knew it would most likely be wherever my clothes had been torn to shreds but prayed it hadn’t been broken during the lapse. Thankfully, I managed to find it after some unpleasant digging *Hello?” sung an overly positive volce on the other side, picking up after only two rings. I wisud at trvlr greeting, finding it so out of place

voice was completely serious, hoping he’d pick up on

Is that you, girl?” Sigh.

at the construction site on Smith

A level fi—,”

you

the phone, slumping myself back against a pile

would need to wait.

did for the next thirty minutes before a van finally pulled up on the scene, a lanky young man with blonde hair getting out from

taking only one look at the mess around me, his face

he started. “You weren’t kidding about the level five. It’s been a while since you’ve left such a gory scene behind and

to retrieve what he needed. The first item

with our own company, treating us with a customer priority regardless of the time of day or how bad the mess was – no questions asked, of course. My boss took a shine to him and he was eventually brought in full time as one of our own employees. Though somehow, in those years of us seeing each other, Zac had wrongly begun to assume we were much closer than we were. That this was more than a working relationship and, in fact, a friendship. “…Hey, I thought this one was meant to be brought in

was

didn’t reply, the subject still too touchy right now. Instead, I merely gritted my teeth silently. “And do you have to do it while naked?” he continued, still not reading my mood. “Girl, if this is some kind of weird kink then I feel bad for anyone you sleep with.”

with the conversation, I stood up and began walking towards him. I didn’t have the patience for his questions anymore and wanted to return home. “Did

on, hating how they clung to me uncomfortably. All I could think about was how badly I wanted a shower, hoping to wash away at least some of my frustration along with the blood. “Still so cold with me,” he sighed dramatically in feint offence, a hand over his heart. But I just muttered a ‘thanks’ and left towards where I’d parked

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