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Dad nodded "They’re sorcerers"

I snapped s and rats"

"So, you listened to ht I did I needed answers and you weren’t here to give the an apple fro a bite "I take it Mom is also demon spawn?"

Dad leaned back in the wooden kitchen chair "Your mother and her family are human"

"I’ll bet her fa you as a son-in-law"

"No more than my family wanted me toit a thousand-h everyone else refers to us as spawn Had I not left home I would have been forced to mate with my sisters, my mother, and other female relatives I would have been little "

I spat apple chunks all over the place "Mate with your sisters and mom? Holy crap, Dad! What kind of fa doesn’t affect spawn like it does humans" His eyes left the pen and settled onto do with it"

"Good lord Don’t I have any nor I wasn’t even human, I supposed my life wasn’t meant to be full of your typical nuclear family activities "If Mom is human, does that mean I’usting and repugnant"

"As if sex with your relatives isn’t the worst ever!"

A chuckle lit his face for a moment "True We hadn’t seen the result of a spawn-hu children are born true--either entirely human, or spawn"

"But don’t spawn have sex with hu?"

"Oh yes But never "

"Have I told you how mental your family is?" Talk about double standards "So I can’t be half-and-half?"

"I don’t think so You appear to have inherited the skillset from my side of the family As such, that would mean you are pure spawn Like me, you are soulless"

Another wave of panic hitI took a deep breath to banish an anxiety attack "I don’t have a soul? Oh, God this sucks"

"Our dee for souls, or so I’ve been told "

I fought back the dread until another thought burst into my mind How can I have a soulmate if I don’t have a soul? Was true love even possible for ht about me from the start? This was horrible news

I found my voice "This ed "I believe they forfeit their human souls for immortality, but I’m no specialist Your mother and I escaped the supernatural life and tried toa normal life if I don’t teach you to use your powers responsibly"

"Better late than never, I guess" My dread er How could I have been so blind all this ti But if I’d turned out hu

Dad’s voice broke through my stony silence "Justin, listen to erous than you know When you feed on psychic energy, your activity burns bright like a beacon Any nearby leech can feel it That includes felycans and vampires Werewolves can s While they probably won’t interfere, va of a rare treat Not only is our blood like a fine wine to them, but soine being reduced to a living wine cask for vae "Point taken"

"Also, there are ways to feed without exposing yourself You’ve been going about it a bit too enthusiastically"

"I did feed on those laughing guys in the bathrooood focal point of positive energy Passive feeding takes longer and is less satisfying but it will keep your nature hidden That, I think, will be the first lesson I teach you"

I furrowedme that all the tier?"

"She orth the sacrifice Our kind are not the sort who fall in love, but your mother won rabbed the pen from the table It crunched as his fist clenched around it

A knot formed in my throat The pain in his eyes probably echoed my own I found it hard to speak for a moment but I had to know "Is Elyssa a va about her

"It’s best you forget her," he said

"But I love her"

"Love is powerful Very powerful But it can’t overcoh with the mysterious nonsense Is she really a vaoes to school She doesn’t burst into fire in the sun"