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

Daniel, the Ashwood Beta heir.

had changed me from who I was before. A

I done in

in the last one that even Clarissa didn’t know

have diverged so much?

right?” said Noah, his tone awkward. “Nice to finally meet you without the…

I sighed.

I

that moment. Though,

is going on? For real?” he asked. “Where’d that girl

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

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

this place have anyway?”

“Well, there’s-.”

by the frustrated scream of Clarissa down

whined

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

seriousness to him despite the absurdity of Clarissa in the background.

my tongue, hesitating. How did I begin to explain? From werewolves to wars, to Gods and abilities.

to hide out for a

don’t know… this has already gone pretty far,” he said, uncertainty thick in his tone. “First Noah… now this?”

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

I

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

only one person it could be.

well enough for Zac to afford a house like

please, don’t…,”

slowly picked up the phone, holding

he

My heart sank.

some cleaning done? -At City West hotel? And what time would this

frowned at me, almost as if debating one last time if he

“Zac….”

his eyes

I’ll be there tonight.”

phone and a wave of relief instantly washed through me, knowing it was

of me, Rae,” he

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

I was safe.

the city. I hadn’t been

at the very bottom. A space where he apparently kept the majority of his cleaning supplies and… anything else he didn’t want

wanted to know the exact

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

around here were… certainly going

you to send a letter,” Clarissa said, seating herself down on the couch next to

had a pen and

two days. Before now, I had briefly

I asked.

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