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 simply
what to
I knew only too
packed my things
recognise me; this being accomplished via a moveable cloth
of the most important things when completing a mission like
sure that no one
at least, if they did, then ensuring that they wouldn’t remember my
to be recognised at a murder
to
but I'd be lying if I said
slightly faster healing, I knew
But I persevered regardless.
intent in mind of proving myself to
myself that nothing
on time, intending t o enter the run-down looking apartment complex, but as I did so, I felt something that wasn’t just the ache of my
in my mind, the start of a
to what I’d experienced on the night
wished would
here it was again, now of all times.I gritted my
deal with i
I just needed to focus
I slipped through the front door silently, making
entering the
late enough that people wouldn’t still be
when this side of town was as
straightforward job, all things considered.I hadn’t
a brief description,
hadn’t wanted to press for more details since it
my
the orders from
need to
my way up the stairs, choosing to avoid the elevator,
around the corner and somewhat away from the eyes of anyone arriving via
burning in my head hadn’t subsided, something I was doing my
it made lockpicking the front door harder as concentrating became increasingly
a little bit longer though.I had to hold out for
smelt the
the target’s
do was sneak up
complete with the new dagger I’d acquired from the
floor for any weakness
Moving closer until—.
‘—you don’t have to..."
behind me, and I instantly crouched to the
no one
from? It was almost like a whisper and
if it were
they were
it wasn’t just
new pain pierced me and caused me
focus a s I looked around, frantically trying to spot
whoever
was definitely nothing
on the T.V could now be heard, along with some light snores
spoken, it wasn’t stemming from the man I was here to
name of Noah.I persisted through the pain and stood
until I stood right behind the man who fit the description
now
aimed my dagger, going for a spot that would make
to cause unnecessary pain, I just
have to do this...You
and lashed my dagger out towards the voice, hoping to silence
stop the intense, sharp pain it seemed
it stop haunting
space around me.No, there was no
been messing
...It was that drug.
drug that Kieran Lycroft had
of whatever he’d done to me must have still been
interfering with my work Scaring me out of doing what I needed to
made me break? But I didn’t get a chance to think on it
the fuck?"
the hell
turned around once more and, sure enough, there
Awake.
in his
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