A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 151

Book Two – Ch.# 42

“You know me?” I asked, surprised.

She’d somehow known my name and implied we’d met already once before. Had we been childhood friends maybe? But that would have been back when I was five years old, her maybe even younger than me. That would be such a long time ago to recall.

Despite this though… I had a nagging in my head as if I’d heard her name recently. Somewhere I couldn’t quite place… At Ashwood perhaps? No… that didn’t seem right.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to think on it for long though.

At my question, Clarissa instantly looked even less enthused, her eyes narrowing slightly.

“…What kind of dumb question is that?” she replied curtly.

“Clarissa!” Myra snapped. “Where are your manners? Apologise. Right now.”

“But, Myra…,” she whined. “It’s not-.”

However, Clarissa wasn’t able to finish her sentence, another coughing fit wracking through her chest.

“…Stupid girl,” Myra sighed, walking over to her bedside.

She wrapped the tiny girl back in her blanket and forced her to lie down once more.

“Rest… you can talk later when you’re feeling stronger,” Myra said. “You won’t do yourself any favours by pushing yourself.”

“But I’m not feeling that b-.”

Assumedly, the new fit of coughing contradicted whatever she was about to say.

“Rest,” Myra ordered.

And all I could hear was mumbling complaints from the bedsheets as I was ushered back outside the room.

“Sorry about her. She can be a bit… blunt sometimes. Thinks she always knows better than everyone else.”

“It’s fine. No offence taken,” I said, waving off the apology. “I am curious though… would it be okay to tell me what’s wrong with her?”

Myra’s face then grew serious, her eyes casting down.

“I wish I knew…,” she said slowly. “She’s been prone to sickness ever since I found her. Over the years it got progressively worse, though it was still manageable. But then, one day, it was as if she suddenly couldn’t get out of bed at all anymore. Like a switch overnight. She was still mostly okay one day… and then the next she became what you see now. The poor thing….”

Since Myra found her…? So, that meant…..

“You couldn’t keep looking for me all those years ago… because you had to take care of Clarissa,” I stated, putting the pieces together.

Myra became quiet and, after a moment had passed, reluctantly nodded her head.

“…You had to choose between us.”

“I couldn’t drag a four year old around, especially whilst we were being hunted,” she explained. “And Clarissa isn’t like you… her appearance wouldn’t pass as normal as I knew yours would be able to. Then adding into the mix that she was sick as well….? It meant I would be endangering her life for the small chance that I would be able to find you. A chance that felt slimmer than finding a needle in a haystack.”

“…Clarissa needed you more.”

of understanding, more so

else from her family has died,” she said quietly. “I might not be related to her by blood but… every time I look at her… it’s

had as well, my only blood family remaining. Didn’t that count for something?

suffer growing up because Clarissa was made a priority. Did I resent her for that? I wasn’t sure. If I did, then I knew it was incredibly selfish of me to think so. It wasn’t anyone’s fault, least of

now that I made the right choice,” she continued, looking back towards me.

that she chose her over

“What…?”

moved closer and touched under my chin, lifting my

surrounding you, something that tells me you were more than capable of

at the tears threatening to fall, holding my

to in order to survive. Every single day was another trial, another test… another assignment.

that, but being poisoned… to have no control over my wolf. To not understand my ability, nor myself. To be unworthy

a mess. A danger to anyone who got too

was incredibly challenging, one where I had to do terrible things… a basis for many of the issues I’m

about to cry herself. “But I can perhaps help you with what I can. Like for example, your ability… It’s important that you learn how to keep that in check. Firing it off without realising can be dangerous, especially when you’re quite

one problem of

But I knew this would be a

said, she couldn’t fix the things already done. There was

42 wrong in

so, I just sighed, forcing myself to relax.

appreciate that,” I

… yet what felt like a million others still waiting

tired I

an understatement,”

in understanding. “I’ll prepare you a room. Tomorrow, I can help you

was the last thing

long, I found myself in a strange room, staring up at the ceiling as I waited for sleep to take me.

and discoveries. that I couldn’t

now…? Did I stay here with Myra and Clarissa, hiding myself away in

note saying I would be home soon. There was no doubt in my mind

I couldn’t predict the future. For now, I was here. That was

of the same thing I always did these days. The very thing that always made me long

of

into the

house felt quiet, the window showing me just how dark it was outside. And, all the while I laid in bed, desperately trying to fall back to

know,” I groaned in

at home. Normally, I could have had a glass of something to soothe me, but here…? Well, I doubted they had much luxury when it came to

too much. Between the dull pain from a headache and

air would be better?

there was something about being here that seemed so eerie. Like an unnatural silence about it. Though I suppose

made it back to the living room, my

sound of quiet snores coming from the sofa.

the noise and found Myra had fallen asleep there. With a book in hand, her body was curled up comfortably, looking

looked… so

peacefulness about her that erased the signs of pain she carried whilst awake. Just what did someone over a hundred years old even dream

the sofa, I seemed to get my answer.

she whispered.

even after all this time. I could only hope

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