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."

didn’t care about courtesy anymore and just wanted to

encounter that

up.I turned around and tried to open the

and I had to bite back my instincts

logic would suggest that there was nothing to be worried about.She was just

enough looking to be pushed over by

"Wait, amoment," she repeated.

back around

an

so low that I almost didn’t hear

story

expression was completely serious as I shuffled uncomfortably under her

me, analyzing my face for any sort of recognition that I knew

course, I

that like a

it a book you used to

immense discomfort, she only continued

really wanted

merely a foot away

I could close the gate between

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

she wasn’t right in

flying into the air somewhere, she finally

her," she simply

that." And she started walking back down

more time in stepping through the

caused by just

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

I walked through my front door, I saw a light had been left on

the house should have been asleep

everything that had just happened, I had every intention of

...

the familiar scent of someone I knew

of the staircase as I came to this realisation, so close to finally being able t o go to bed, but I knew that the light had been left on for

He was expecting me.

sigh, I stepped back...and headed towards

he greeted me, sitting

where I was standing, I could only see his arma s he held a drink

"Father," I replied.

from Zac not long ago," he said,

than expected."

old lady outside,"

talk to me

from the job.The agreed upon time should have seen you home a long time ago."

"Ah..." 

"Did everything go...smoothly?" 

No.No, it had not.

fact, I couldn’t think of many ways in

shouldn’t have, opening

a kidnapping job...then by failing to take

that consequence because I didn’t want the death on

any of

this point, I was already in far too deep to come

knew I shouldn’t be...but I couldn’t help

find out? Was it related

ah, it all

of people were drinking outside and, well, intoxicated o r not, they'd still

that so...?" he

nervous feeling was bubbling in my chest.He couldn’t know I was lying...could he? But then again...there

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