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. 

anyone ever

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

serious, hoping he’d pick up on

that you, girl?”

at the construction site on Smith Street. Immediate assistance

what? A level

See you soon.”

I instantly hung up the phone, slumping myself back against a pile of

now, I would

wait I 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 the driver’s

the mess around me, his face

kidding about the level five. It’s been a while since you’ve left such a

retrieve what he needed. The first item being

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 alive,” he added, grabbing more equipment. “Why go to the effort of

was one.

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

questions anymore and wanted to return home. “Did you bring me some clothes?” I asked, still not addressing his last

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 a car earlier in the day. The plan had been to drive off with Miles as soon as I’d knocked him unconscious, handing him over before anyone was made aware. What a disaster that had

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