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“Yes”

“What choice did you make?” I asked

“I’ll let you knohen I make it”

That was the s he hadn’t toldhis bloodline

“If Ariadna grows up and agrees to help you save your people, ill change for you? What will you lose?” I asked

He said nothing

“Well, if itfrom me, I hope it all works out for you”

“It won’t”

“How do you know that?” I asked

“Because the Seers are right Everything coreat”

Did he believe this path would lead to his death? Sure the hell sounded like it

I conteed my mind Did I really want to watch him die? No I didn’t And clearly, he knew the price of his decision If it was his fate, there wasn’t much I could do

I looked out the car , thinking about that story Circe told of the girl in the ravine If all I wanted was for this baby to be free, ould be the price? Or was her fate sealed, and I simply had to accept it?

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Ansin

Over eight long reed to live with me in the house I purchased, but ironically, I discovered I required distance anyway I’d had to move into an RV outside in the driveway

It was ian to grow The Seer she carried was unlike anything I’d ever come across Powerful was an understate paled in coave off

I knew King had been sensing the sa his distance, and not because we’d uardian in exchange for his execution “When I ao,” he said A in for all, inrehter incarnate

As long as I didn’t see the fucker