A Gift from the Goddess
Chapter 117: Book 2 - Chapter 9
"Are you ready to follow the rules now?"
...Rule number one...obedience.
Always follow the orders from the boss.
No questions asked.I'd broken that rule.I knew I was breaking it the moment I’d chosen to run that night.I knew it would land me here.And yet I still did it.I pulled my body upright from the old bed, more sluggish than I would have liked, and hated how] still felt so sore from the injuries inflicted several days earlier.
‘Days’. That was the key word.
That was how long I’d been trapped in here, alone with my thoughts as it forced me to reflect on every decision I’d made leading to this point.
Because, at its core, that was the true punishment.
It wasn’t the pain.
No, that was always over quickly.
Gavin did a great job of making sure the damage inflicted was swift yet efficient.
Always enough to get the point across and never seeming to even flinch as h e did what he did.
But it was the psychological punishment that truly made it horrific...
‘Days’.I'd been in here...for days.
Alone.
In pain.
Wondering how I’d managed to convince myself that running had been worth it.
Wondering how much longer it would take before punishment was finally over.
And now this was the first thing spoken to me after all that time.
This voice of my father on the other side of the door, asking if I was ‘ready to follow the rules’.
Yes, I was ready.Of course, I was ready.I was about ready to do anything, to say anything, if it meant finally getting out of here.I’d learnt my lesson the minute Gavin had ripped me from my bed.
There was only one authority in my life and that was my father.
It had always been my father.
..Someone I just wanted to be free of.I forced that thought away as quickly as it sprung to mind.
It was thoughts exactly like that which led me t o this moment.
Testing the patience of a man who had none.I wasn’t exempt from the rules because of our relationship.
If anything, this punishment had been necessary.I’d clearly become too complacent in its absence and needed the reminder.
Really, it was my fault.
All my fault.
"Raven?" prompted my father.
Slowly, I swung my legs out of the bed and stood up, taking a deep breath.
The first one I’d done in so long, my chest having felt too sore earlier.
..And I committed to this decision to obey.To obey *him*.
“I’m ready," I replied.
It didn’t take long before I heard it.
The sound of a key clinking for a few seconds before the satisfying click of the lock.
Within moments, I found myself face -to-face with my father after all this time.
"Good," he said, entering the room towards me.
"Because there is work to be done."
..Already? So soon? But, no, that was another incorrect thought.I should b e thinking ‘thank you’, praising how lucky I was to be given another chance.
This was a good thing for me.
A moment to redeem myself.
A moment to show that I was still loyal.
My father held out a manilla folder towards me and I took it, giving a small nod to show how grateful I was.
Forcing myself to believe that very thing.
job," he
know what to
I knew
the hour, I had packed
this being accomplished via a moveable cloth
one of the most important things when completing a mission like
sure that no one saw
they did, then ensuring that they
no one wanted to
to the location, choosing to stick
but I'd be lying
back in the fresh air and with slightly faster healing, I knew
But I persevered regardless.
mind of
that
t o enter the run-down looking apartment complex, but as I did so,
was a burning in my mind, the start of
to what I’d experienced on the night of the charity
I wished
was again, now of all times.I
with i t
just needed
so I slipped through the front
been the easy part; entering the public area without being
wouldn’t still
this
all things considered.I hadn’t been
a first name, a brief description,
to press for more details since it wasn’t something I needed to
push my luck, having
obedience.Always follow the orders from
was no need to
made my way up the stairs, choosing to avoid the elevator, until I finally came
from the eyes of anyone
hadn’t subsided, something I was doing my best to
door harder as
had to hold out for just
hear sounds coming from aT.V.and smelt the scent of someone located in
almost guaranteeing the target’s
I needed to do was sneak up
enough to complete with the new dagger I’d
for any weakness
Moving closer until—.
‘—you don’t have to..."
behind me, and I
no one was
that come from? It was almost
if it were
if they were close enough to
wasn’t just a
in my brain, a new pain pierced me and
it more difficult to focus a s I looked around,
whoever had
was definitely nothing
muffled sounds of people speaking on the T.V could now be heard,
confirmation that whoever had spoken, it wasn’t stemming
the pain and stood back up, walking to
quietly until I stood right behind the man who fit
now or
lifted my arm and aimed my dagger, going for a
cause unnecessary pain, I
do
lashed my dagger out towards the voice, hoping to silence whoever
stop the intense, sharp pain it seemed to bring
make it stop haunting
the space around me.No, there was no one there...but I thought I
thing that had been messing with my
...It was that drug.
Kieran Lycroft had given
done to me
was interfering with my work Scaring me out of doing what I
I wrong and I simply was just losing my mind finally? Had this last punishment been the straw that finally made me break? But I didn’t get a
fuck?" someone
hell are
around once more and, sure enough,
Awake.
me in his living
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