A Gift from the Goddess
Chapter 120: Book 2 - Chapter 14
Over the next few days, I found myself feeling anxious.
Under the constant watchful eye of both my father and Gavin, I continued to play along with my usual daily routine.
Acting as if nothing was amiss.
Doing all the training that was asked of me.
But, inside, I was thinking back to that keycard.
The one I’d hidden under my mattress.
Waiting for exactly the right moment for when I’d be able to use it.
...A moment I found finally presented itself on the night of the third day.
With my father expected to be staying overnight elsewhere for a late meeting and Gavin only working until seven o’clock, I saw an opportunity to take advantage of the soon-to-be quiet house.
And I devised a plan to leave as soon as the sky grew dark.
A few hours later, I was slowly scaling to the ground from my bedroom window.
This being something I did with ease and without being seen.
And though I never thought to use my abilities to go behind my father’s back, I certainly couldn't deny that it came in handy.
Soon, before much time had passed at all, I found myself facing the door I’d been thinking of so incessantly.
The door I’d been wondering about every day, contemplating all of the things I could possibly discover once I entered through it.
A door that might just possibly change my life forever.
And I stared at it.
...And stared.
......And stared.
And I kept staring, even while my hand reached out several times to knock, failing every time to go through with it.
..I’d been so certain in my decision and come all this way, only to—.
But then, suddenly, the door opened in front of me.
"_.Are you just going to stand out there all night?" came a voice from inside.
It was his voice.I recognised it well now.
"I ah...," I started, feeling a little awkward for being caught.
"I’m sorry.I just...I—."
"It’s okay.No need to be sorry," he said, his face then appearing from the other side of the door.
Instantly, that same effect started to hit me, a reassurance spreading throughout as his presence held me.
"I get it.If you need more time to think, I can just leave this open.I’m not pressuring you to “
"No!" I quickly blurted out.
"No, it’s okay.Everything is okay...I’m ready."
I came here with determination to get answers.I couldn’t back out now.
Whatever happened tonight, at least I could say that I tried.
My mistake would only lie in wanting to hope for a better life.
"Okay...well, come on in," he said.
I was ready to step through the door but was stopped a s he held a hand out to me.
Just as he had done so once before.
However, the last time he’d done that, I had been too overwhelmed to reciprocate.
Too many thoughts and questions holding me back, so unsure of everything that had been happening at the time.
Now, when I looked at his outstretched hand, I sawa possible beginning.
"T just need you to trust me," he had said to me that day.
Well, I couldn’t be sure if I was ready for that just yet, but I was at least willing to believe.
Believe that there was a chance of this being real...if only for a moment...And so I cautiously reached out...hesitating once or twice as I moved...before, finally, those same sparks tingled along my skin in greeting upon contact.
"I'm really glad you came back, Raven," he said, his voice low and eyes so intense.
And, instantly, I felt as my cheeks began to burn ever s o slightly.
..Clearly, I would need to be careful in more ways than one around him.I could see how easy it would be to become distracted from the mission at hand.
"This doesn’t mean I trust you," I clarified.
"And I… I'd like some sort of proof.I’m risking a lot by coming here and I feel it’s only fair that you prove you are what you say you are."
me forward through the front door and closed it behind
he towered over me, something that I became painfully aware of as I became trapped between him
can
were completely alone, the
were somehow devouring me
could have sworn appeared darker
was just
"Make yourself at home."
stepped back, releasing me, and quickly I walked around him into the
let myself
room
other day, the place was
felt larger than some people’s houses
to host an elaborate party without feeling even
exactly an ideal place to do something where people might see," he said as he
just have to make do
I turned to look at him, I had
he stood to the side as he watched me,
yelled in surprise, unable to stop myself from
way though, his lip twitching
my favorite shirt," he said, as if it
don’t want it to get
his chest as he continued unbuttoning, his actions
was revealed seemed
sight I never would have expected to be hiding
this? I swallowed and quickly
"_..Ruined?" I asked feebly.
the shift?" he said,
me to prove we were the same,
Oh.
Right.
But, wait...
to do that in here, was he? And my mind immediately
I quickly
I need to lock
laugh, much to my embarrassment.I
now, I could only make assumptions based on the knowledge
knowledge...it wasn’t
ground, becoming lost in thought over my prior
when he appeared right in
instantly, a shiver
quietly, drawing
could ever make me hurt you.I am the
a part of me wanted
could respond though, he moved past me to start pushing couches and other pieces of furniture out
was done, there was a semi-large open space i n which
you ready?"
back cautiously
..And then...something unbelievable happened.
him
and transforming effortlessly until all
me knowingly, a look embedded within those familiar hazel
like running or feel
I felt recognition from deep
As though this felt...right.
walk towards him, moving until I was crouched
down on the ground, presumably trying to make himself appear less
to? He looked at me as if he knew exactly who
decided to trust that instinct...reaching out hesitantly
mused aloud to
closed upon contact, allowing me
though I didn’t feel the same sparks as when
this really be something I can do?"I
seemed impossible to think that I could go from blackouts and bloody
apparently disagreed with
question, he raised his head and gave me a nod, confirming that this
ached with
want to learn this,"
don’t want to be
so lonely, thinking I was a
seeing Kieran like this
that he could teach me and was willing
honestly felt like the final piece of the
had were
Natural.
lies or nefarious
purely a part of being this
mean I really could trust him? Abruptly, Kieran then stood up, shaking his fur
little off guard by the sudden movement but tried not
proven already that he had no
he was back
said, walking over to
this immediately
do first.Some way to practice safely," I argued, slowly getting back
me to just jump right in and do that
than to just do it.I'll be right here to help talk you through
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