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 Ashwood Beta heir.

that had changed me from who I

just what had I done in my

had happened in the last one that

have diverged so much?

awkward. “Nice to finally meet you without the…

I sighed.

I

the kitchen at that moment. Though, I knew he

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

fine… everything is fine,” I said, unsure if I were

fancy house, I did wonder something. Particularly, something to do with

how many rooms does this place have

“Well, there’s-.”

by the frustrated scream of Clarissa down the

room!” she whined in the

that was then confirmed by the sound of what must have been

then asked, a seriousness to him despite

wars, to Gods and abilities.

trouble and need to hide out for

don’t know… this has already gone pretty far,” he

him that we could stay. It had worked once before to make him ease off with

I…,” I started. “Look-.”

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expression that I was most worried about as I watched it then pale, his eyes deliberately shifting back up to meet

one person it could be.

paying well enough for Zac to

don’t…,” I

slowly picked up the phone, holding

Reid,” he

My heart sank.

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paused and frowned at me, almost as if debating one last time if he should do it. Come clean and remove the

“Zac….”

his eyes closed.

I’ll be there tonight.”

a wave of relief instantly washed through me, knowing

death of me, Rae,”

I wasn’t sure if Clarissa could confirm that, but I at least hoped it wasn’t true. However, for now at least, I could rest.

I was safe.

isolated from the main part of the city. I hadn’t been expecting that, but it turned out to

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

know the

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 supposed

around here were… certainly going

letter,” Clarissa said, seating herself down

and paper in

so lively in two days. Before now, I had briefly been

who?” I

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