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.

had changed me from who I was before. A

had I done in my past

had happened in the last one that even Clarissa didn’t

have diverged so much?

finally meet you without the… you

I sighed.

I said

that moment. Though, I knew he

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

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

I did wonder something. Particularly, something

rooms does this place have anyway?” I asked.

“Well, there’s-.”

off by the frustrated scream of Clarissa

room!” she whined in

bedroom. An assumption that was then confirmed by the sound

Really?” Zac then asked, a seriousness to him despite the absurdity

to wars, to Gods and abilities. It was a lot to

in a bit of trouble and need to hide out for a bit. Not even my father can know I’m here, okay?”

far,” he said, uncertainty thick in his tone. “First Noah… now

him, sway his mind to convince him that we could stay. It had worked once before to make him ease off

I…,” I started.

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

was only one person

enough for Zac to afford

don’t…,” I

he slowly picked up the phone, holding it to his

Reid,” he answered.

My heart sank.

-At City West hotel? And

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

“Zac….”

eyes closed.

I’ll

relief instantly washed through me, knowing it was one less thing

to be the death of

but I at least hoped it wasn’t true. However, for

I was safe.

nicely isolated from the main part of the city. I hadn’t been

downstairs a study and living space… though, most interestingly, Zac told me about a secret dungeon area at the very bottom. A space where he apparently kept the majority of his cleaning supplies and… anything

to know the

move into the study downstairs. 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

here were… certainly going

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

pen and

I had briefly been dropping food off for her but she’d been bedridden

I

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