A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 158

Book Two – Ch.# 49

“Clarissa!” I screamed, pushing past Zac to run inside.

He was still too confused to move, struggling to understand the situation. Only,

I did know the situation. I knew that something had to be so very wrong.

“Clarissa!” I yelled again, scanning through the rooms.

And, finally, her voice called back.

“Rae!” she cried.

The kitchen.

I bolted to her location and found Clarissa on the ground, shaking as she stared up at a man holding a knife.

…A man I knew as Noah Kennedy.

“Who is that!” she screamed. “How did he get in here? H-he shouldn’t be here. He could have killed me!”

Noah simply appeared stunned by the whole situation and slowly looked down at the

knife in his hand. A kitchen knife that he was using to cut an apple.

“This is wrong,” she whispered to herself.” No one is ever at Zac’s house. How is there someone here? It’s supposed to be completely private.”

“Woah, calm down,” I said. “Nothing is going on. You’re fine. This is Noah.”

The way she had moved around in Zac’s house, it really was as if she were walking into her own home. I suppose it would give her a fright to suddenly see someone after six prior lifetimes of the same empty house.

“Who?” she asked, still confused. “Who the hell is Noah?”

“Uhm…,” I started. “Well… he’s the younger brother of Miles Kennedy….”

“The smuggler? Why the hell is the dead smuggler’s brother here? You’ve never even mentioned he had a brother.”

“I don’t know? I didn’t know where else to

put him after I didn’t kill him. Thought he’d be safer here at Zac’s house rather than somewhere my father would find him.”

And she immediately looked at me as if I had two heads, her eyes wide in confusion.

“…What the hell is up with you?” she whispered. “This timeline… it’s all wrong.

“Um… hi,” Noah then said next to us, quietly watching all of this unfold. “How’s it going?”

It was enough to break the intense staring contest Clarissa and I were currently having. Though, she still refused to acknowledge him.

“I’m going to my room,” she finally said after another few moments passed, and slowly picked herself back up. “I-I need to rest.”

I didn’t try to stop her and she rejected my attempt of trying to help her up. Clearly, she needed some time to figure out what was going on, and even I felt too exhausted to deal with this right now.

‹*“ — You don’t have to do this… You don’t need to be Raven. “*”

Kieran’s words. The voice in my head that had stopped me on multiple occasions. Like a buzzing in my brain that had been incessant, stilling my hand from killing both

and Daniel, the

me from who I was before. A change that I’d thought was for

done in

something had happened in the last one that even Clarissa didn’t know about.

could things have diverged so much?

finally meet you without the… you know… the whole trying

I sighed.

I said

at that moment. Though, I knew he would

going on? For real?” he asked. “Where’d that girl go? Is she okay?”

is fine,” I said, unsure if I were trying to reassure

looked around his fancy house, I did wonder something.

many rooms does this place have

“Well, there’s-.”

voice was then cut off by the frustrated scream of Clarissa

room!” she whined in the

normally would be her bedroom. An assumption that was

are you doing here? Really?” Zac then asked, a seriousness to him despite the absurdity of

werewolves to wars, to Gods and abilities. It

a bit of trouble and need to hide out for a bit. Not even my father can know I’m here, okay?”

he said, uncertainty

we could stay. It had worked once before to make him ease off with his questioning. Only… only it somehow felt wrong to

I

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it was his expression that I was most worried about as I watched it then pale,

one person it could

been paying well enough for Zac to afford a

don’t…,” I

the phone, holding it to

he answered.

My heart sank.

City West hotel? And what time

towards the end where Zac paused and frowned at me, almost as if debating one last time if he should do it. Come clean and remove the risk of

“Zac….”

eyes closed.

sir. I’ll be there tonight.”

hung up the phone and a wave of relief instantly washed through me, knowing it was one less thing I’d need to worry

to be the death of me, Rae,” he sighed. “Literally.”

I wasn’t sure if Clarissa could confirm that, but I at least hoped it wasn’t

I was safe.

of the city. I hadn’t been expecting that, but it turned out to be pretty

living space… though, most interestingly, Zac told me about a secret dungeon area at the

sure if I wanted to know the exact details of that

forced Noah to move into the study downstairs. He seemed a little annoyed until he looked over at me, probably remembering the night I had found him. After all, as Clarissa had said, he wasn’t even

were… certainly

said, seating herself down on the couch

pen and paper

I had briefly been dropping food off for her but she’d been

I asked.

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