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11 "I can’t wait to spend eternity with you"

I couldn’t get her to leave my bedroom She refused to walk around the castle or explore Vilokan with an stayed huddled away in er welcoood i the one dinner she had attended Agreeing to let her speak with Wyatt had been the only thing I could think of tothe door, Wyatt walked past ement He hated me He hated who I was and what I represented Once, he’d been hout my life I’d watched him and wished I had a life siued me the ht Pagan food that she recognized Theshe would accept easily His appetites were very odd in all things Setting the tray down on the table beside the bed, I aze

"He isn’t fond of me," I said as I handed her a plate

"No, he isn’t But then who can blame him? You took away his eternity He is now stuck here, forever"

The hate laced in her words was ined "I didn’t take his soul Pagan,to Ghede answers to no one within our reales in anything pleasurable and corrupts enjoyable pursuits,into depraved behaviors Nothing I can say will stop him I was a child when he asked me to choose a soul I had no idea what the implications were I chose you I didn’t know then what that meant You can hate an was quiet aa plate of food "Who is your mother?"

My mother wasn’t soan I would share everything Even the painful things "My mother is Erzulie, she is the reason my skin is pale and s Love being one vengeance being another She takes s my father does I see her on occasion but for the most part I live with my father She has never had any desire for a child but then I’m not her only one She has several,huan took shed in relief She needed to eat I didn’t like the idea of her starving Father would make her immortal soon But for now, she needed nourishment

"You don’t talk like your father either He has a bit of a Cajun accent"

Finally, she was curious aboutyou I adopted your accent so I would fit in with your life I didn’t want to appear to you as an outsider"

"So all those dreas really happened Are there otten?"

Those were only sether There was so much I wanted her to remember, "Maybe a few more" I replied

"A fewelse from her I’d hid soto tell her this, I needed to be able to pace It helpedher perched onelse Myback to the time on her couch, before Dankmar had consumed her heart I’d never been that close to anyone

"I’ve been with you many times in your life When you were lonely or sad, I was there When you were in danger, I was there It hat I did Father said you were mine and I should protect you So I did I’ I did on purpose It’s just that I a when I’m not near you"