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“Makenna,” she repeated “That’s a pretty name Different”

“She’s special,” Jonathon smiled proudly, “therefore she deserves a special name”

“That she does,”Ren to Jonathon She held her arms out to take Makenna from Amelia

I shter

Fa in the world and I’d been so stupid to force reed with her choices, but they were her choices, not mine, and I should have respected them

Eventually, everyone disappeared and I was left alone with my mom

We sat side by side on the couch, each of us waiting for the other to speak first

Finally, I reached for her hand and held it in my own

“I ive you for what you did At the ti, and I was hurt, and I was scared Here I was in a completely new place, where I didn’t know anyone, and my mom…the only person I felt that I had left, killed herself Or tried to at least,” I took a deep breath even though I didn’t need the oxygen “I was angry at you for a long tis in a different light I wasted years on being angry, and that was extreivethat time”

She s a piece of hair behindmany times when I was a child

“What’s to forgive e have forever?”

Chapter sixteen: Battle Strategy

Days later, we are all gathered in the living room, my mom and Gabriel included Myon…the prophecies, my power, and the war that was imminent

“We need a strategy,” Gabriel paced in front of us All of us were quiet, our eyes on the brooding vareat one, not so about We can’t just wing it We need nulanced at Patrick, “did you speak with the Coven like I asked?”

“I did,” Patrick nodded, “they’re in”