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Still squatted in front of me, Lu rubbed his hands together. “Here we go!” He cleared his throat. “And what did Diesel figure out?”
“That her daddy blamed her.”
“For what?”
“Who he is?”
“Which is?”
I was feeling drained, unexpectedly. “Lu...”
“Running out of time, kid.” His head bobbled. “You’re technically dying on Earth.”
“No! I can’t! Rya needs me—”
“Yes she does!” Lu seemed just as frustrated. “The lyrics! What did they say?”
“That she’s Daddy’s little girl!”
“How can that be if neither Mr. nor Mrs. Stanning have the selling trait?”
“Selling trait?” I yelled. “What does that matter? She was illegally adopted by them both!”
“No! Think! The spooky eyes men want to fu—”
“Stop.” This was Rya he was referring to!
“Nooooo! Not Rya!” Lu yelled. “To reproduce, who fucked who, Hellion? No time! Come. On!”
“Uh… Uh…” Feeling my human body fading away, I began panicking “Okay. Lyrics. ‘He is her daddy…’
My mind raced back to the night I shot him. He had said, “It’s not like she’s my blood daughter.”
No. No. No…. It was one thing for Rya to be raped by her adoptive father, but biological. It somehow made it that much worse.
Speaking in a kinder tone now, Lu asked, “Does he have the selling trait?”
Mr. Stannon’s eyes were brown. I felt ill. “No. He had sex with Rya’s biological mother.”
Lu fell back on his but, worn out. “Rhea, you said he was smart, but that was painful!”
I quickly looked around. “Is she here?”
“No time, warrior.” He looked to the sky. “Where is that star you need real bad?”
“Lu?” My earthly body was giving up on me, and I was already regretting failing my Rya.
“Yeah?” He kept searching the gray sky that wasn’t real.
“He’s dead. I shot him. What does it matter?”
Lu rested folded arms on his knees. “Well, Onus played a part in you losing two mothers. He would like to right his wrong by giving two girls their mother back.”
Rya and Demi. “They’re sisters.”
“And their mother is alive.
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