A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 120: Book Two - Chapter 13

I left Noah in Zac’s capable hands and got his word that he’d call my father to say the job was completed per normal.He was risking a lot for my sake, I knew that.

A lot of risk for what seemed like absolutely no reason.

The level of danger associated with this insane plan wasn’t lost on me.

After all, the last thing 1 wanted was for Zac’s name to end up in my next manilla folder.I headed home as soon as I could, leaving enough time to arrive well before daylight, and walked towards my front door.

But it was as I was entering through the front gate to our property that something caught my eye.

It was an old lady, huddled up in a shawl, standing just on the street outside.

She had grey hair and eyes to match, clearly at an age that would suggest a retirement home or carer was required.

And yet she stood randomly outside my house at three o’clock in the morning, staring directly at me.

I paused for a moment and looked around, trying to see if she was with someone.

But when the empty street was completely silent and devoid of all other life, I started to wonder if maybe she’d gotten lost.

...Did I really have the energy to deal with this right now though? I was already so exhausted and just wanted to go inside to sleep in my own bed, something that would be a first after many days.

I could already perfectly visualise how soft my pillow would be...

just begging to be laid on and—.

"I can save her," the old lady suddenly said.

"I can save the girl." …

What? I took my hand off the gate handle and turned back around to fully face her, part of me still wondering if she was even talking to me.

"..Pardon?" I called back.

Wasn't it common for older people to lose their minds at a certain age? What if she was a dementia patient who wandered off? I should probably just look up where the closest hospital or retirement home was and tell them where to find—.

"The girl.Clarissa," she said.

As if that was of any real help.

I blankly stared back at her.

"I’m not Clarissa," I clarified.

"I think you’ve—."

"I know that," she snapped sharply, making me flinch a bit in surprise.

"Oh...kay.Well, is that...your daughter?" I asked, still trying to be polite.

"Or your carer? Do you want m e to call someone for you—?" 

But then she started to walk towards me, her stride more steady than I would have expected given her appearance.

There was something oddly strange about her too.

A weird atmosphere around her.

Or maybe I was just slightly unnerved by the whole creepiness of the situation.

"Do you not know who I am?" she asked once she stood within a few feet of me.

"Ma’am, truthfully, I’m not even sure if you know who you are.No offence," I said, starting to get more uncomfortable the longer this drew out.

"If you just wait here a moment though, I’ll head inside and wake up one of the maids.They can maybe help you out or something."

about courtesy anymore and just wanted to leave as

this entire encounter that just

up.I turned around and tried to open the gate, but she quickly moved forward to stop

had to bite back

was nothing to be worried about.She was

to be pushed over by the wind

"Wait, amoment," she repeated.

turned back around to meet her

seemed to hold an intelligence there

spoke in a tone so

story of the Winter Mist?" she

completely serious as

face for any sort of recognition that I

course,

a fairy

used to read to your grandkids or

immense discomfort, she only continued to

I really wanted

so close to home, merely a foot

step forward and I could close the gate between

she was so close to me that I wasn’t sure what she would do if

wasn’t right in the

sound of bird wings loudly flying into the air somewhere, she finally turned away, pulling the hood of

her,"

she started walking back down the street

time in stepping through the gate and locking it behind me, my

fear caused by just

if I had to say one thing that was far more terrifying than the old crone, I would have to answer that it was the man

a light had been left on in the living

in the house should

had just happened, I had every intention of just

...

familiar scent of someone I knew only

this realisation, so close to finally being able

He was expecting me.

sigh, I stepped back...and headed towards the living

me, sitting in

I could only see his arma s he held a drink in his hand, the chair facing

"Father," I replied.

received the call from Zac not long ago," he said, taking a sip from the

than expected."

was this old lady

think she was lost.Kept trying to talk to

the job.The agreed upon time should have

"Ah..." 

"Did everything go...smoothly?" 

No.No, it had not.

fact, I couldn’t think of many ways in which it

dug into things I definitely shouldn’t have, opening

by failing to take care of the

because I didn’t

I couldn't mention any of this to

point, I was already in far too deep to

I shouldn’t be...but I couldn’t help but feel a

to find

it all went smoothly,"

people were drinking outside and, well, intoxicated o r not, they'd still be witnesses.I decided to play

that so...?" he

my chest.He couldn’t know I was lying...could he? But

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