Chapter 10: Halie

What??

I'm frozen to my spot against the chair, the man man was right after all?

What the hell did they just utter?

I blinked rapidly, my gaze moving back and forth between my parents, before attempting a stifled chuckle. No, no, no, no, NO! this had to be a joke, it just had to. I glance at Rider, hoping to see his facade of utter seriousness fall as he tells me this was such a prank. No such luck, the truth in his eyes is all the evidence I need.

I'm a hybrid.

I'm a hybrid.

Ragna was right, that bastard...

I remove myself abruptly from my seat glancing at my parents for their betrayal. How could they do this to me? How could they keep such an important fact from me all this time?

"Are you too serious?" I yelled.

"Halie." My mother reaches out tentatively for me but I step away.

"Don't touch me!" I snapped, pulling back my hand as if she wielded a jagged knife.

"You will be respectful to your mother." Dad chastises.

"Respectful, you aren't even respectful to me. You knew t