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PROLOGUE
Dear Iris,
I’m notgreat with words. I act. That’s what I’m doing now.
You see, my sweet baby girl, I have a sister. Her name’s Christy and she’s in trouble.
Real bad trouble.
Some men have taken her, stolen her away and locked her up in their castle.
They’re bad, bad men and they’ll hurt her.
I have to rescue her. I have to bring her home.
That’s what I do. I protect my own. Family means everything to me. Everything.
Which means I have to do the one thing I hoped never to do and that’s leave you behind. I can’t put you in danger.
I won’t.
Instead, I’m trusting my friend Pen and her men, Xeno, Dax, Zayn and York to take care of you whilst I’m gone. They’re good people, the best. They will love you and care for you whilst your dad and I go slay the monsters.
You’re too young to understand how dangerous this is. We might never come back. It hurts my heart to admit that I may be making a choice where you are left an orphan with no parents.
It hurts me beyond repair, and I will live with the wound forever, whether I live or die.
But I have to go. We have to go, your dad and me.
I have entrusted you to my friends who will love you until we return, and if we don’t… will love you always.
If this is the end of your dad’s and my story, then so be it.
Either way, I’ve left you a gift.
It’s my story.
Actually, it’s our love story.
Your dad’s and mine.
His words, and mine. His memories and my memories, all scrawled down on the pages of these notebooks.
You see, Iris, a long time ago a coin was thrown.
A coin that would decide my fate.
Tales you win.
Heads you lose.
I won, and my dad, your grandfather, lost.
Though admittedly it didn’t feel that way at the time.
What I do know is that everything happens for a reason. Your dad and I were always supposed to be together, it just took a while to get there.
This might not be the perfect fairy tale, but it is our fairy tale, and now it’s yours.
Ma x
