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“Don’t talk about my daughter that way.”
“She isn’t your daughter! She is nothing but a devil created by magic and sin. You took what belonged to me to get it. Give it back.”
Wait, this wasn’t how she had said this played out.
“Her birth will create a new era for shifters to thrive amongst humans. We can start anew, together. She is what we have been waiting for.”
“You’re delusional.”
“And you’re a bigoted coward,” my uncle…father…shit…bellowed at her. “This shit about purity and evolution is utter bullshit, Lizzie, and you know it. I took it from you because you don’t deserve it. You’ve corrupted the gift we were given.”
“This is what you turned us in to,” she sneered. “Remember? You wanted strength and power, and you got it. We all did. And now we can rebuild our empire. Take out the humans and hybrids. That is what we can do. But not with”—she cast the crib that I slept in a disgusted look—“that. What she has belongs to me, and I want it back.”
“Her birth was preordained. Her very existence is meant to lead us to a better era,” he snarled.
“Her existence is a threat to everything I have built,” Lizzie snarled. “Bringing together faded mates? Some of which are human? It’s sickening. We can do so much better.”
He sighed, shaking his head in disappointment as he looked at her. “What happened to you, Lizzie?” he asked sadly. “What happened to the girl I fell in love with who wanted nothingmore than to save her city and refused to stoop to my level in order to do it?”
“She died that day and was born something greater.”
“I’m not letting you take her from me,” he snarled. “You’ll have to kill me first.”
I watched her move a satchel from her waist. Opening the bag, she tossed the contents toward the crib. The man screamed my name, diving in front of the shiny contents of dust and bone, trying to keep it from spreading into my crib.
“That can be arranged,” Lizzie chuckled darkly. “And you can take that abomination with you.”
Moon Goddess…please…
Pain. There was so much pain that it felt as if my body had been electrocuted and then thrown into a blender. Someone was mumbling to themselves.
Damien.
“She said I had to wait…had to wait…”
Well, he was certainly less composed than he had been when he tied me to this wall. Keeping my eyes closed so I wouldn’t alert Damien, I took stock of my body. I could feel the skin around my neck slowly stitching itself back together. The muscles, ligaments, and layers of skin were nothing but searing pain, but it was better than being dead.
My strength was returning.
In fact, it seemed as if there was more there now than there was to begin with.
I should be dead. That’s what happened when you got a knife to the throat. You died…right? Then again, if that vision was anything to go off, I’m apparently not that easy to kill.
Why?
Was I superman?
No wait…Wonder Woman?
Now that was a scenario I needed to explore.
I doubted I was that either.
No, I was something more.
Moon Goddess…please…
Hunter.
