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
closed my eyes, feeling my body relax. “Thank
hug, something which quickly triggered old memories of my last attendant, Sophie. But I allowed her to embrace me nevertheless, despite that pain inside. I needed to push those thoughts out if I was going to survive. I needed to learn to trust and
me to do?” she asked after pulling
any time, jumping in immediately to explain the
bank account set up under an alias in order to amass some funds independently. I also require some investment accounts… but that will come later. Oh!
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will have a few more instructions 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 of these things myself. You‘ll be acting as my representative for all of my business matters going forward until I‘m
shocked at first, hearing all of my requests. I think these were probably the last words she ever
I look like a kid, Lucy, but I really need you to trust me. Can
hesitant but eventually
and looked her dead in the eye. “If someone approaches you and offers something in exchange
a little. “How do
“I‘ll be coming into some wealth within the next few
nodded her head again before, suddenly, my mother walked into the kitchen, oblivious to the serious conversation that had just been
about?” she asked with playful curiosity,
looked up towards her, breaking the tense air that had just
boys and stuff…,” I said slyly and turned to smile up at
me a reluctant
Having a girl talk about Aleric, are we?” my mother said with a
cringe and, instead, forced my smile in place to remain
“…Something like that!”
topics came up. By the time I was safely back in my room, I was immensely relieved to be alone with my thoughts again.
that things had gone so well last night and was eager to move on to the next part, but unfortunately, I
driver stop by Main Street where I collected the unopened letter from the abandoned lot. I was pleased to see that the seal still was
I did see Myra in passing who gave me a small smile and wave. I returned the sentiment which made
over where I could possibly know 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 more important things to
I found myself looking out the window during Modern History, in my own world. I
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suddenly called
looked up and saw Mrs Newman staring at me expectantly. Had she wanted
the class quickly all turned their
missed that last part. What was the question?” I asked
class quietly snickered at my unpreparedness which I
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