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“Please tell me your plan.”
“It’s simple: keep us both alive.”
“Who is trying to kill us?”
“If I knew that, I’d put a stop to it.”
“So we just have to run?”
“Basically.”
“You are my husband. We fulfill the most important prophecy in the history of mankind, and you are on the run from people who think they are powerful enough to derail us? No! No, Cam, no!”
He laughs. The sound is mocking, instantly filling me with a burst of shame I despise.
“Good God, Paigelynn. I cannot believe the shit they filled your brain with.”
“Shit?”
“Loads of it. Truckloads.”
“What do you mean?”
“You’ve been brainwashed. For years. Since you were twelve.”
“Brainwashed?”
“Convinced to believe lies.”
“What lies?”
“Everything. Everything you believe is a lie. It’s not your fault. It just is.”
“You keep saying that, but you do not explain it!”
As I search his face, trying to understand, we stop at a light, a large mall to the right of us. There, I see a familiar face on a large billboard.
Makiah Rooney.
One of us.
One who protects me.
Many years ago, he performed an important ritual with my protectors, hands on us, the men brought into the fold. The Mother tells me often that Makiah is a pure man, with a heart and soul made for destiny. His belief in the Prophecy is unshakeable.
I trust him with my life.
Something on the dashboard lets out ading!and Cam looks.
“Gas. Damn it.”
Meanwhile, his phone buzzes again.
“And you laugh whenever I talk about the Prophecy, as if you are mocking it. Mocking me.”
“Because it’s a lie.”
“How can it be a lie if you wear the mark? And you say you are my king?”
