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So what did this mean for me?

If Ten Club was never created, Victor Escorcia probably would have gone to jail long before he crossed paths with Moht still be here today Dad would be a completely different man with a different life A happy one

Who wouldn’t want that? Except… My eyes teared up again, realizing if the Seers went through with this plan, I would never o He’d be nothing more to me than a footnote in one of the hundreds of history books I’d read

I circledmeant no baby Not this one, anyway

I sloalked to the living room and sank back down on the couch I felt like I’d been hit in the heart with a three-thousand-year-old sledgehammer

Everyone had been lying to , the Seers, Ariadna Everyone except Ansin How ironic since he was a Ten Club member, and the Seers had warned me to steer clear of him

They probably just didn’t want hi in the way of their plans Ten Club members were notorious collectors of people and objects with power Ensuring King killed the three re one of them, would help keep Ariadna safe until she was ready to carry out her task

In fact, now that I thought about it, King would never have stayed for hter? Of course he’d stay It would be what Mia would want because King was powerful and ruthless He would be the protective father Ariadna needed until her destiny ca

That’s what this “penance” crap is all about The Seers wanted King to do some cleanup and then protect Ariadna The rest of their story, about hi his footsteps,” was bullshit Sort of They really did want that to happen, but King had no idea his role would be guarding the only person capable ofit happen A new reality

That new reality would include King taking his place as the Seer lord three thousand years ago, as he was meant to do

I whooshed out a breath and threw my head back on the sofa I can’t believe this The pieces fit so neatly together that if it weren’t formyself crazy But I had no reason to doubt the visions I’d seen and what I felt

The question was, now that I knew the truth, ould I do?

Once again, I was the girl with all the questions and none of the answers

CHAPTER ELEVEN

After hitting a dead end, I decided it was tio ho on, but he was the only person I trusted now

Would he believehis daughter had lost her shit? I prayed for the former, because I had to make a choice An important one

Letting things play out as the Seers intendedher and protecting her, while knowing she would eventually leave et her the moment a new reality took hold Or worse, maybe I would remember her, like a drea things play outwould have to stick around to protect Ariadna, but he’d remain madly in love with Mia I would have to endure years and years of those looks—the ones he gave when he ishing she were here instead ofAnsin to kill King—because why take away Ariadna’s protector, right? Which meant Ansin would be the one to die if the tent head-to-head, and I’d never knohy I looked so happy in rowing up with Mom alive—one more reason I wanted to talk to Dad What would he say when I told hi back the love of his life?

The other option was to stop the Seers’ plan fro The most obvious choice was to raise the baby to see that her future wasn’t fixed My daughter could say no to the Seers and live her life Not the Seers’ Not ’s, but hers

As for King, I could hide the truth and say nothing about Ariadna He’d have no reason to stay In fact, if I told hi would probably respond with, “Yes, please! I’d love to die” Provided that Ansin could actually end a et what he wanted, my heart would be broken, and the world would ree done by Ten Club would be a perry world