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.

that had changed me from who I was

just what had I done in

the last one

things have

meet you without the… you know…

I sighed.

pleasure,” I said dryly.

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

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

I said, unsure if I were trying to reassure him or myself.

his fancy house, I did

many rooms does this

“Well, there’s-.”

the frustrated scream of Clarissa

room!” she whined in the distance.

be her bedroom. An assumption that was then confirmed by the

asked, a seriousness to him despite

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?”

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

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

I…,” I

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most worried

was only one person it could

paying well enough for Zac to afford a house like

don’t…,”

up the phone, holding

Reid,” he

My heart sank.

-At City West hotel? And what

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

“Zac….”

his eyes closed.

I’ll

wave of relief instantly washed through me, knowing it was one less

of me, Rae,” he

if Clarissa could confirm that, but I at least hoped

I was safe.

isolated from the main part of the city. I hadn’t been expecting that,

a secret dungeon area at the very bottom. A space where he apparently kept the majority of his cleaning

to know the

annoyed until he looked over at me, probably remembering

here were… certainly going to be interesting.

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

and paper in hand.

had briefly been dropping food off

who?” I asked.

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