Chapter 406


    Mason


    The five of us settled into our ces in the living room. Thest time Ste had sat in that chair, her


    legs. dangled. Now her feet reached the floor. They were bare, and it urred to me that we’d have to


    get her a


    whole new wardrobe.


    It was a stu pid thing to be worried about at a time like that, but I found it was easier to focus on the


    practical aspects of the situation to keep myself from disintegrating into a spiral of confusion. Because


    if I didn’t have something to focus on, I thought I might lose my s hit, just a little.


    Not like my brother, though. Pulses of his Alpha energy kept swirling out of him. It felt like a rain of icy


    pebbles sca t tering over all of us. Our Luna and our Beta were doing their best to counteract him with


    warmth and soothing bursts of their own energy, but I also had to put in some of my own.


    Alpha on Alpha-it was like two mas touching the wrong ends. Every time I tried to help my brother


    get


    himself under control, we sprang violently apart.


    “Daddy.” Ste’s calm voice surrounded all of us like thep of waves on a shore.


    She held out her hands, palms up. Light suffused the air around her. The ends of her hair floated, cr


    ackling, as more light built its glow until it


    when


    epassed Xander. His eyes were zing with his wolf, but


    Ste’s light reached him, he closed them.


    “Daddy,” she repeated. “I have answers for every question. Everything is going to be all right.”


    Zane and I shared a look. How was she doing this?


    Ste was the daughter of an Alpha and a strong Luna who’d been blessed with unique gifts, and all of


    us belonged to the Moon Goddess in ways we didn’t fully understand. Was it possible that Ste had


    an Alpha and a Luna’s powers, maybe even some of a Beta’s?


    That was the only way I could imagine her being able to surround all of us in this glowing nket of


    peace.


    Lanie was the only one of us who didn’t look confused by what our daughter was doing. Whatever


    she’d read in that vanishing book had given her the heads’ up. I could see her mind turning as she


    watched Ste work her magic on her agitated father.


    Magic, I thought to myself. That’s what it had to be. Some kind of magic none of us had experienced


    before.


    Xander opened his eyes, fully calm. “Apologies, Ste


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    I see now. I mean, I feel…hell, I’m not really sure what I mean. But I’m ready to listen to whatever


    to tell us.”


    you have


    Ste grinned. “Good. I’m ready to answer any of your questions. Mother has one. I can tell by the look


    on


    her face.”


    “Was the book true, Ste?” Lanie’s voice held a hint of tears but also something that sounded like


    hope.


    A little fear. Pride, too. “Do you have every ability of every supernatural to ever exist?”


    Ste nodded, her expression solemn. “Yes.”


    Xander groaned and leaped off the couch to pace.


    Zane’s head fell back against the cus hions. I just stared at our daughter and her mother as they held a


    long, solid look between them. I didn’t know what to do, say, or even feel.


    “I am a Celestial,” Ste said gently to us all. “That means I am part of everything, and everything is a


    part


    of me.”


    “From birth,” Lanie said faintly. “You’ve been able to do all of this since you were born. N?velDrama.Org holds this content.


    Again, Ste nodded. “Celestials are born aware, into the infant bodies of their parents. I can’t speak


    for any others, only myself, but…you wanted and needed me to be your baby, so that’s what I


    remained. At least as long as I could. I did what I thought was best…


    with the Celestial ‘dream’, so you would have some awareness. I never wanted to hurt or frighten you,


    Mother!”


    Lanie shook her head. “All of this must have been so hard for you. I’m only sorry you didn’t feel like you


    were able to tell us before now.”


    “There was so much you and my fathers had to face. I didn’t want to add to that struggle,” Ste said.


    “Until now? What changed?” Xander asked.


    Ste raised her hands again to bathe us all in her warmth and glowing light. I closed my eyes to bask


    in it, letting it take away my worries. I loved my daughter, but more than that, I trusted her. I had to.


    “I tried to be your child for as long as I could. I wanted to do all of this slower, for your sakes, but there


    isn’t time for that anymore.” Ste looked at each of us in turn. “Danger ising.”


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