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

had been his influence that had changed me from who I was before.

I done

something had happened in the last one that even

else could things have

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

I sighed.

pleasure,” I said dryly.

his way into the kitchen at that moment. Though, I

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

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

looked around his fancy house, I did wonder something. Particularly, something to do with

this

“Well, there’s-.”

cut off by the frustrated scream of Clarissa down the

room!” she whined in

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

you doing here? Really?” Zac then asked, a seriousness

and abilities. It was a lot to casually explain to someone in one sitting. Hell, even I barely understood.

need to hide out for a bit.

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

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

I…,” I

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me off. But it was his expression that I was most worried about as I watched it

was only one person it

well enough for Zac to afford a house like this.

no… please, don’t…,” I

picked up the phone, holding

Reid,” he

My heart sank.

West

if debating one last time if he should do it. Come clean and remove the risk of being caught in a lie.

“Zac….”

eyes closed.

sorry, sir. I’ll be there

instantly washed through me, knowing it was one less thing I’d need to worry

the death of me, Rae,” he

Clarissa could confirm that, but I at least hoped it

I was safe.

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

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

I wanted to know the exact details of that

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

were… certainly going to be interesting.

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

pen and paper in hand.

two days. Before now, I had briefly been

who?” I asked.

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