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Chapter 414
Lanie
didat physically st agger back, but everythme made me tweeted and turned white Lity
howled Red consumed my vision as my vampire and wolf selvs fought for control, and
there was more inside me too parts of me I never felt before Didn’t know how to
New elements of myself were trvale to rise and take ves
Stella raised a hand toward me. She didn’t say anything, but instantly, I felt the relief of
being settled back inside myself. Me, Lanie, Luna and mate to Xander, Mason, and Zane
Mother to Stella, Alaina, and baac
Granddaughter to Malachi S ervant to the Moon Goddess,
“Thank you,” I said to my daughter
She nodded. ‘It’s shocking news, I know”
“Gabriela,” Malachi said with a snarl. She will have to be killed of course”
“No,” Stella replied in her same calm voice. She has h o idea that she is the one providing
the High
Council with their information.”
I couldn’t stay sitting. I had to move. I paced the floor at half double speed and for my
muscles
responding with a groan. Not at the effort of moving that much faster than normal, but
with the restraint of
stopping myself from buzzing around the room like an angry wasp.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“If she’s a spy, how can she not know that about herself?” Lasked, spinning to a stop on
one heel to face
Stella.
“She’s not a spy, exactly. But they are using her.”
Stella touched her fingertips to her temple again, this time only for a second or so.
“She hasn’t been around as much. She’s been suspicious of me. Things have been
different with bec
said to Malachi. “I should have known something like this!”
Stella shook her head. “How could you have? All you’ve been told since we got here was
boW SONID Brightsky is.”
Malachi’s expression twisted. “And it is. Or at least, it has been at least until you all
arrived. Stingiga
spy, no less!”
“I told you, she’s not a spy. She’s a victim of the High Council’s intrigues as much as
anyone they le eve used for their own gain. Perhaps more, because, unlike her husband,
Gabriela did not choose “Stolia looked at Malachi, then at me. No Fiora joy came out of her
this time. Only a calm and steady tooling of truth. ‘Gabriela has found friends and a life
here in the enclave. That’s a good thing for her. Something she
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and frankly, deserved.”
I paused before answering. “How much do you know about your grandfather, Orion, and
what he did?”
Stella smiled gently. “I know everything I need to know about everything, Mother.”
“So you’ve pointed out,” Malachi said. “But what your mother wants to know is, exactly
what do you know,
so she doesn’t have to find a way to be nice about telling you that your father’s father was
a villain.”
“I know of his betrayal,” Stella told me. “I also know what you have not yet learned, and
that’s about his
deal with the High Council.”
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“I know about him and his plans for the hybrids,” I began, but Stella shook her head.
“Orion Constantine worked toward his own interests for a long time before any of what you
know about
him came to pass. He offered what did not belong to him in his pursuit of power,” she
said. “He gave them his
wife.”
I paced again, more slowly this time. I wracked my brain trying to recall anything Xander’s
mother had
ever told me about the High Council, its plans, Orion’s part in them, and also her own. It
all felt as though it
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmhad happened to me so long ago. I was having a hard time recalling even how long we’d
been at Brightsky.
Weeks? Months? Surely, we could not even have been here for a year yet.
“Time passes differently here,” my daughter said aloud, although she had to be reacting
to the onslaught
of my increasingly louder thoughts.
Malachi whipped his head to stare at her. “What are you telling her that for?”
“Because she deserves to understand everything, and I’m doing my best to put it all
together,” Stella
retorted in a harsh tone unlike her previous cool calm.
To me, she said, “I don’t mean it’s like time travel or anything like that. It’s just that here
in the enclave,
separated from the outside world, it’s easy to drift along without a solid knowledge of the
passing of time. You shouldn’t feel badly about it, Mother. It’s the same for everyone here,
but for us in particular.”
“No bills to pay, no real responsibilities, every need of desire catered to,” I said with a look
at my grandfather. “The privilege of being the king’s granddaughter, right? Keep us
content but stu pid?”
“That’s ridiculous,” Malachi said. “If anything, all I’ve done since you got here was try to
help you become better. And how am I repaid? You brought a snake into my henhouse!
What choice have you given me, Lanie, but to throw you all out at once?”
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