novelxo Chapter 426
Chapter 426
Lanie
“What do you mean, we're going to say goodbye to the twins in front of
Gabriela?” My jaw had dropped, gaping wide, and I shut it with a snap.
I clipped my tongue between my teeth and tasted blood, but that was a better
flavor than the bitterness in my words.
“We have to make sure she hears us and sees us, so it's relayed to the High
Council,” Stella said.
I spoke to her in the tone of voice I'd used on the rare occasions when she'd
thrown a temper tantrum. Calm, but firm, and clearly letting her know that I was
disappointed in her. “I understand that part, Stella. But you're asking me to leave
them behind?”
She'd quickly laid out the plan to us, but I was not convinced that it made sense.
My mates seemed to believe that leaving the enclave was a good idea, and I was
having a hard time getting behind that, too. Leaving Alaina and Isaac here
though, while we ran off...I couldn't do that.
“Gabriela will stay with them.” Stella said.
“Lanie, just hear her out,” Zane began, but I made an angry gesture to make him
go quiet.
“How can you even think I'd be okay with this?” I demanded of the three of them.
Then, I turned to my daughter. “I don't like this, Stella.
You've grown up, but your brother and sister are little more than babies-"
“They're stronger and smarter than you give them credit for, Mother.”
here!”
“Because they're hybrids!” I cried. “They're special. Like you. Which is exactly
why we can't leave them
I crossed my arms over my belly and hugged myself tight. I shook my head, not
meeting the eyes of any of my mates. I couldn't bear to look any of them in the
face. “I swore when I rescued them from that cursed testing facility that I would
never abandon them. They would never be alone like that ever again. I vowed to
protect them and love them like they were my own, and that's what they are.
They are my children as much as you are, Stella. And now,what you're asking...
It's too much. I won't do it.”
“They'll be safer here than anywhere else, Lanie. And we can't really fight with
two children in tow. It's better if they remain behind.” Mason tried to reach for me,
but I shrugged myself out of his grip.
“My mother will take care of them,love,”
Xander said.
I ducked away from Xander’s reach, too. I whirled on him. “Your mother is
compromised!
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This entire plan revolves around that fact, which you seem to have conveniently
or st upidly forgotten.
Whether she knows it or not, Gabriela is a tool for the High Council.
How can you ask me to trust her?”
“She would never hurt our children!” Xander snapped at me, sounding truly
angry, probably because I'd called him s tupid.
Oh, yeah? Well, so was I. I put my hands on my hands and stood my ground with
him. “Of course she wouldn't, if she could help it. But what if she can't help it,
Xander? What then?”
“Because I trust our daughter, something you were telling us to do not ten
minutes ago!”
Xander growled.
“Mother. I know this is hard. If there was another way, I would offer it, but I've
seen the various paths. The only ones that work are the ones in which we leave
Alaina and Isaac here.”
me?”
Tears filled my eyes. “How are they going to feel when I tell them I'm going away
and not taking them with
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Stella hesitated. “They'll be with their
beloved Grammy. You can tell them
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“It will be a lie,” 1 said.
Mason stepped closer but wasn't foolish enough to try and pull me against him.
“It's not a lie. We will be doing grownup things.”
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I eyed him with a frown. “And
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Gabriela won't want to come with us?
If we tell her the High Council is
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“We'll tell her that we're taking Stella away for her own protection. Because she's
a Celestial and more important,” Xander said.
life.”
“Compromised or not, I believe with my whole heart that my mother will protect
our children with her very
“The High Council wants our children because they're hybrids. What makes you
think they'd just give th up?” I demanded.
Hubris.
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The whisper tickled the back of my
neck at the base of my skull. I
instantly went on high alert,but
nobody in the room had spoken or
even used the mind link. Vaguely,
from far off, I heard the sound of my
name being called, but I stumbled
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On a soft carpet of pine needles.
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