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

the Ashwood Beta heir.

that had changed me from who I was before. A change that I’d thought was for the better.

I done in my past

one

have diverged

tone awkward. “Nice to finally meet you without the… you know… the whole

I sighed.

pleasure,” I said

kitchen at that moment. Though, I knew he would be wanting answers.

For real?” he asked. “Where’d that

I said, unsure if I were trying to

his fancy house, I did wonder something. Particularly, something to

this place have anyway?” I asked.

“Well, there’s-.”

the frustrated scream

room!” she whined

her bedroom. An assumption that was

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

did I begin to explain? From werewolves to wars, to Gods and abilities.

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

gone pretty far,” he said, uncertainty thick in his tone. “First

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

I…,” I started. “Look-.”

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worried about as I watched it then pale, his

one person it could be.

paying well enough for Zac

please, don’t…,”

up the phone, holding

he

My heart sank.

you need some cleaning done? -At City West hotel? And what time would this be?”

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

“Zac….”

eyes closed.

I’ll

hung up the phone and a wave of relief instantly washed through me, knowing it

going to be the death of

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.

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

three bedrooms, the downstairs a study and living space… though, most interestingly, Zac told me about a secret dungeon area at the very bottom.

wasn’t sure if I wanted to know the exact details of that one.

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 supposed to be

certainly going to be interesting.

Clarissa said, seating

a pen and paper

the first time I’d seen her so lively in two days. Before now, I had briefly been dropping food off for her but she’d been bedridden for the most

I asked.

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