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    “How do tad heetant!? How can | prepare her? My voice was strangled.


    “You don’t. Shess recocious but stilt too young to understand. You''ll only frianten named Matachis voice ipped low in wanting


    Tears weiled 10, bomma but | didn’t try to dash them away. if that made me frag so cene i Matachi itted and handed mesa


    nandkerchief from his breast pocket. It was of crisp, trones cotton andhrameters faintly f cigar smoke and soninian di incense.


    | pressed it to my face dresond before wiping my tears. | crumpled the fabric in my hand add stuated noting no signs


    opbloooconwitch was good. | wasn’t squeamish about blood, generally, but after sesestng is red tears. | didn’t want to owner own


    with the same goth.


    “| know this scent: 1 told himml teemember it from my childhood. My mother would be sad sometimes, and he’d always just tell


    us it was seemedag eer cycle. But it was you, wasn’t it? Somehow, rted to you


    “The lies we tell our childrennacmotthens are sometimes the ones that wound us the most, Mchithi aid gravely. “Keep the


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    | wound the cloth around my fingers siriand outcing them with it. “I never want to lie to my children.


    “But you will,” he said. “All parents slod


    | frowned, feeling stubborn. “I’ve beentieadamy entire life. hhad to lose my entire memory and identity


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    My voice broke and cracked as my near tezed at the thought of my precious little one bein


    anger: Mchi squeezed my shoulder gently erretzing is seat again. He watched me strugg


    ffered no words


    Finally, | managed to get my voice back. Shes pist patitueqir Mch. No matter what blood flow


    prough her, shes still just a baby”


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    “And she has you as her mother. Your daughters special, Loupandocare you. A luns with three mate!


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    quantwith a scowl.


    ger, and so quick to anger. It’s your duality | suspect. Living with that beast inside you, always trying to get the surface and take


    control. So many ups and downs. It must be so tiresome.”


    hard rather have my ups and downs than be some cold-hearted, emotionless-"I bit off the end of my ntence, not entirely sure


    what insult | was trying to hurl his way. “I’ve seen you give in to your fury, so don’t t like you don’t. You broke the Treaty.”


    “It was time for that Treaty to be broken,” Mchi said.


    “Interesting timing, isn’t it? You break the treaty, which directly leads to Mason gaining his Alpha powers, ating two Alphas where


    there should''ve only been one. | have three mates, and our daughter is a Celestial.” red him. “You had no idea?”


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    toThe world turns, granddaughter, and the best we all can do is spin ourselves along with it. There are ces in ce so much


    grander than any one of us. | cannot pretend to understand everything.” Mchi iked at me. “But I can tell you that it’s easy


    enough to know that no Luna in recent history has had three Tes. You all might''ve been secluded from the rest of the


    supernatural world, but that does not mean that we haven''t been watching you all very closely.”


    “| hate that!”


    putes you should. What your councils jointly decided was perhaps on the surface meant as protection, but hehera et only


    harmed you.”


    itslive parents lying to a child,” | said through gritted teeth. Look how well that’s turned out. Besides, Ste eady knows what she


    is. The Moon Goddess told her. She might not understand what that means, but ! dos. Either do we


    cacay Ask is that you allow yourselves to settle in here. We''ll find a way to navigate all of this. | saldlachi said.


    her safeep her safe?”


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