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

influence that had changed me from who I

I done in my past timelines?

had happened in the last one that even

have diverged so

said Noah, his tone awkward. “Nice to finally meet you without the… you know… the whole trying to kill me

I sighed.

I said

Zac found his way into the kitchen at that moment. Though, I knew he would be

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

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

did wonder something. Particularly, something to do with

rooms does this place

“Well, there’s-.”

the frustrated scream of Clarissa down the hall.

room!” she whined in

Noah had moved into what normally would be her bedroom. An assumption that was then confirmed by the sound of what must have been Noah’s

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

From werewolves to wars, to Gods and abilities. It was a lot to casually explain to someone in one sitting. Hell, even I

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

know… this has already gone pretty far,” he said, uncertainty thick in his tone. “First Noah… now

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

I…,” I started.

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

person it could be.

had been paying well enough for Zac

don’t…,”

up the phone, holding it to

he answered.

My heart sank.

some cleaning done? -At City West hotel?

it happened. A moment right towards the end where Zac paused and frowned at me, almost as if debating one last time

“Zac….”

his eyes closed.

sorry, sir. I’ll be there

and a wave of relief instantly washed through me, knowing it was one less thing I’d need

of me, Rae,” he sighed.

Clarissa could confirm that, but I at least hoped it

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 be pretty beneficial for us.

dungeon area at the very bottom. A space where he apparently kept

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

move into the study downstairs. He seemed a little annoyed until he looked over at me, probably remembering

certainly going to be interesting.

Clarissa said, seating herself down on the couch next to

and paper in hand.

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

who?” I

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