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 found out the truth. Saw wiat I truly was.

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

he’d pick up on the less than

that you,

construction site

A level fi—,”

See you soon.”

a pile of building materials, too

I would

finally pulled up on the scene,

one look at the mess around me, his face instantly

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

to retrieve what he needed. The first item being gloves which he promptly equipped. Zac was a professional,

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

it was one.

teeth silently. “And do you have to do it while naked?” he continued, still not reading

and began walking towards him. I didn’t have the patience for his questions anymore and wanted to

at my unwillingness to talk and turned back to the van to retrieve what I needed. “Yeah, yeah, here. Lighten up, I’m just joking with you.” I quickly grabbed the clothes and started pulling them 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 a car earlier in the day. The plan had been to drive off

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