A Gift from the Goddess
Chapter 13
Chapter Thirteen
“Is there something wrong?” I asked, narrowing my eyes at her.
She wasn‘t touching the drink and instead was staring at the teacup a little strangely. My heart sank. Had she only been pretending to not know what I‘d just done?
But her eyes then began to water, a timid smile twitching at her lips.
“No, it‘s just… this is really nice of you, Miss. Thank you for being so considerate,” she said, softly. “I know I‘m just an attendant, but you‘ve really made me feel like a part of the family by doing this.”
I watched as she took a sip and instantly my heart leapt. She‘d drunk the tea and hadn‘t hesitated when asked to serve it to my parents.
A bright smile instantly broke out on my face and I ran to her, grabbing her hands in mine excitedly.
“Thank you…,” I said sincerely.
“Miss?” she asked, confused. “What‘s wrong? Why are you thanking me?”
“Because the letter I gave you yesterday was to say that I would poison my parent‘s tea tonight, and you happily served it to them and even willingly drank it too. This means you didn‘t read the letter,” I said,
calmly explaining.
She jolted away from me and frantically turned to the tea she had just drunk in disbelief.
“It‘s okay! Relax! It was just some lemon and green tea leaves. I‘m terrible at herbology anyway.”
“Miss, why would you play such a nasty prank on me like that?” she asked furiously, raising her voice.
I hadn‘t intended to make her angry, but I suppose I did just admit to trying to poison her.
“Please lower your voice. It wasn‘t a prank. I did it to make sure I could trust you,” I explained. “There is someone after me, Lucy. They‘re going to kill me. I can‘t give you all the details and you absolutely cannot tell my parents. If you do, then I won‘t be able to protect myself. I can‘t do this without your help.”
She looked at me warily like I was insane, unable to find any words to respond.
“I‘m not crazy, Lucy,” I said adamantly. “If you help me, I‘ll even pay you double your yearly salary for your time and discretion. So please… help me.”
It took a few moments but, finally, her eyes softened and she nodded her head in agreement.
I think she could feel now that this wasn‘t a prank but actually a very real threat that I was begging her to help me with. Not just a child‘s silly fear, but something far more substantial.
shoulder as I was finally able to tell someone about my very real problems. Or, at least, some of them…
feeling my body relax.
her to embrace me nevertheless, despite that pain inside. I needed to push those thoughts out if I was going to survive.
to do?” she asked after pulling
time, jumping in
I need a separate bank account set up under an alias in order to amass some funds independently. I also require some investment accounts… but
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but if you can help me with these things to start off with, it would really help me so much. Being fourteen I, unfortunately, can‘t do any
hearing all of my requests. I think these were probably the last
like a kid, Lucy, but I really need you to trust
but eventually nodded her
looked her dead in the eye. “If someone approaches you and offers something in exchange for
eyes widened a little. “How do
worry about that yet,” I said. “I‘ll be coming into some wealth within the
again before, suddenly, my mother walked into the kitchen,
she asked with playful curiosity, putting her teacup in the
looked up towards her, breaking the tense air that had just been between Lucy and
boys and stuff…,” I said slyly and turned to
me a reluctant
Having a girl talk about Aleric, are we?” my mother
the urge to cringe and, instead, forced my
“…Something like that!”
conversation had died down, I quickly excused myself by saying I needed to finish schoolwork, and left before any more awkward topics came up. By the time I was safely back in my room, I was immensely relieved to be alone with my thoughts again. Because whilst stage one of
things had gone so well last night and was eager to move on to the
I was pleased to see that the seal still was intact and the driver didn‘t question the odd detour; both of which I was
gave me a small smile and wave. I returned
her from. I felt like there was something important I really needed to remember. Like some sort of… major event? I had to shake it off though. Whatever it was would come back to me eventually and I had
found myself looking out the window during
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voice then suddenly called from
staring at me expectantly. Had she wanted
I only replied with silence, the class quickly all turned their eyes
part. What was the question?” I
snickered at my unpreparedness which
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