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“What about shifters, enchanters, fairies?” asked Joseph

Gabriel conteet any help frole in our politics We les would be helpful”

“Well,” Patrick clapped his hands together “We better get to work”

Chapter Fifteen: Reunion

The vaan to bustle about I wanted to help but I didn’t kno They all dispersed, leaving Jonathon and me with the babies He looked atthe others

“Go ahead,” I waved him away “I know you want to help”

“You know ,” he added, kissing each of the babies on their head

He was gone in an instant and I was alone for the first time with my babies I was aly stroked both of their pink cheeks Sorounded me I was scared that if I left theht now, I still felt hu I didn’t want to be overcome with my thirst…

I stopped that train of thought in its tracks and the burning in my throat relaxed I held my breath for several minutes until I was sure I was in control of myself Once I was sure of s

I sled their noses in their sleep I knew there had never been two more beautiful children They were so flawless, so perfect, they didn’t see I had desired a child of Jonathon’s that having the How could I have such perfect little babies? I had begun to believe that I was destined to have only bad in ht spot,I had Byren and Makenna now too My life was no longer dully lit, now it shone with a light akin to the sun

Makenna sneezed in her sleep and her green eyes peeked at ain The noise however, startled Ren, and his lower lip began to tre I picked him up and rubbed his back

He sniffeda piece in his tiny little fist, a look of serenity passed over his face and he drifted back to sleep I rubbed his tiny neck and inhaled his new baby smell He was tiny, much smaller than Makenna, as the size of a normal newborn

I sang softly to Ren and gazed between hihter I couldn’t believe th

at I had carried her for nine months and hadn’t even known it Her presence was so potent now They both were potent It was as if they gave off some kind of aura that just sucked everyone in

I knew looking atfor them I would be the best mom I could be and if it came to a battle then I would die for them I would do whatever it took to make them safe They were my life now Not only mine, but Jonathon’s as well I knew he felt the saood in the two of us, the best of us They deserved a chance at life