novelxo Chapter 432
Chapter 432
Gabriela
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I warmed my hands around a mug of hot tea, but I didn’t want to take even a
single sip. Xander had explained to me, quickly, that he and his mates would be
leaving with Stella, but the twins and I would stay
behind.
“You might have asked me first,” I said in a low voice. “Rather than simply
springing this on me. No
warning.”
“We have to move on this now, Mom. Sorry, but you're our only option. We have
to get Stella out of here for
her protection. She's far more powerful than the twins and far more at risk from
the High Council.”
At those words, a pain sliced into my heart. “The High Council. When will they
ever stop causing us so
much trouble? Is it so much to ask that they simply leave us alone? Never mind.”
I waved a hand for silence,
my voice rasping. “l know the answer to that. Probably more than any of you.”
I didn’t want to feel such disappointment that my plans were being struck to the
ground before I even had
the chance to put them into action. I didn’t want this selfishness. With a heavy
sigh, I put my face in my hands.
“Where is Stella?”
Mason stepped up to answer that question. “Right now, she’s in the temple of the
Moon Goddess,
preparing herself.”
“A Celestial needs to make offerings to a Goddess?” asked.
Lanie had been talking to the twins, but now she appeared with a bag slung over
her arm. “Even a
Celestial can use as much protection as she can get.
Gabriela, I know this is hard. We wouldn't ask you to do this if we had any other
choice.”
“Where are you going?” I studied the mug. The steam wafted up, bathing my
face. My vision blurred again.
This time from tears.
Xander cleared his throat and took the seat next to mine. He pushed the mug out
of the way to press both of my hands between his. He waited until I looked into
his eyes, but although his mouth opened, he still didn’t
speak.
“You have your father's eyes. Did I ever tell you that?
Not the color, or even the shape. It's the look in them Xander. Orion looked at me
that way every time he
asked me to do something he knew I wouldn't want to do I shook my head and
pulled my hands from my son's grip. “I never thought to see my own son looking
at me the same way.”
“We're taking her to Fallen Crest,” he said.
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I couldn't hold back my gasp of shock. “That's...”
My words stuck in my throat. I pushed away from the table and got up to face all
four of them. They were talking to each other through their dam ned mind link.
I could sense it. I wrapped my arms around me against the sudden chill.
“Fallen Crest is the dead city,” I told them. “Nobody goes there. It was forbidden
by the High Council ages
ago-"
“As if we give a single tiny f uck about what the High Council wants,” Lanie said.
1 shot her a look so fierce she winced. “It was forbidden by every High Council or
Leadership Court or
Noble Senate of every single supernatural kind that has such a governing body.
Every. Single. One. It's the only
thing that everyone has ever agreed on in totality.
You can't go there.”
“We have to. It's where Stella says she will be safe,”
Lanie shot back at me with her wolf blazing in her eyes.
“By the Moon and the stars above, how? The Moon Goddess herself abandoned
Fallen Crest. It's nothing
but a wasteland, inhabited only by the dead, and if you go there...” I stabbed my
finger at each one of them. “You'll all be dead, too. You might as well simply slice
off your own heads right here and now. Save me the heartache of wondering
what has happened to you.”
“Mom. Don't be hysterical,” Xander began, but I whirled on him.
“You watch your mouth,” I snapped. “Your father used to speak to me that way,
and I didn’t put up with it, from him. I tolerated a lot, but never that.”
Zane got up from the table to take away my unused mug. He poured it into the
sink. When he turned back
around, his gaze was sympathetic but strong.
“Lanie’s had a vision from the Moon Goddess, and Stella has confirmed that
Fallen Crest is where we have to go. There's more than our lives at stake. If we
can't get Stella safe from the High Council, the entire world is in jeopardy. If you
take a minute to think about it!” he said, “I know you'll be able to see that.
Because you know them. You know what they're willing to do.”
The tension in the air between all five of us popped like a balloon stuck with a
pin. And, like a stuck balloon, I deflated. I sat back at the table with my hands
folded. The life I'd imagined only an hour ago would have to be put on hold for
the greater good.
It wasn't the first time I'd changed my life to help save the world...but by the
Goddess, I prayed it would be the last.
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