A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 114: Book 2 – Chapter 6 

With a thud, the dagger hit its mark perfectly Only… it wasn’t a threat like I was expecting. No lurking assailant, 

No, it was a tree. 

Shit 

Truthfully, as I went to retrieve my weapon, I couldn’t help but feel somewhat relieved. This wasn’t the streets, nor was this a mission requiring deadly force. I was at a goddamn party, What the hell had gotten into me tonight? 

It was if rational thoughts and behaviours were absent. What if the sound I’d heard was simply an animal who wandered in from the forest nearby? 

But… that feeling of something being wrong. It was rare for my gut to be incorrect. And right now, my instincts were still screaming at me that something was happening, that something was approaching… that someone was…. 

Here. 

Another sound of movement behind me instantly made me react, only now it was significantly closer. In fact, it was right behind me. I knew if it were only a patron from the event, they would have called out to me or made their presence known before approaching. But this? This was something else. This was as if someone was intentionally sneaking up on me. 

I pulled the dagger from the tree and wielded it immediately, spinning around to defend myself against whoever was there. Against whatever was going to attack. 

…And, instantly, it grabbed my wrist. 

Moving faster than I expected, they managed to pull my hand backwards, disarming my dagger in one swift movement. A technique that would need significant speed and skill to accomplish. After all, my own ability was unnatural. 

But there was no mistaking the situation now… He had me trapped. Disarmed, alone and basically pinned against the tree behind me. My only chance was that I could kick him in the stomach, create some space, assess the situation and 

And… 

And then the world seemed to just… stop. 

Piercing through the panic in my mind, the feeling of sparks erupting along my arm soon became impossible to ignore. Like pleasurable tingles dancing along my skin… stemming from where the man still held my wrist. In confuston, my eyes slowly trailed upwards, starting from where his hand still held me, up until, finally, I looked upon his face. Until I met his eyes. His dark eyes, staring into mine. Invoking an overwhelming sense of longing and familiarity inside me. As if I knew him… as if I always had… and as if he were…. 

As if he were…. Mine.’ 

The word was whispered inside my head. But it didn’t feel like it came from me. 

Mine… mine… mine….’ 

itself past my lips. To speak aloud, for whatever reason. But I

moment I

melting away my pain, melting away the burning that had been there just moments before. Now there was only

‘Mine.’ 

my attention… Watching them with a newfound curiosity. Would they

‘Mine.’ 

brown hair…what would it feel like to touch?

pull knives out on strangers?” he asked jokingly, his lips turning in a smile.

…That smile. 

was the most perfect smile I’d ever seen. If that was the last thing I ever

looked back up to his eyes, finding their colour now different. No longer the dark orbs I’d first witnessed… but

ask, having not taken in anything he’d just said

you often pull

I immediately pulled myself out of my

snatched my arm away from his grip

current situation. One where I had stupidly

said, gently holding his hands up. The sentiment was

to scare you.”

up on vulnerable women without announcing yourself?” I asked, turning the

laughed a little at that, a sound that made my body react accordingly. It was almost silky, coercing

he queried.

the one pulling a dagger. You were.

*Party.* Oh, fuck. 

suit he was wearing, one that was fitted perfectly to his body shape. Molded along every curve to show off every one of his muscle

just long enough to piece together what this meant. …That I’d just tried to kill

event that I, myself, was meant to be leaving good impressions and working towards

several cautious steps away, never taking my eyes off him as I tested to see if he planned to follow. But when he simply looked back at me confused, I knew it was

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