10| LUNA.

As Blaze relinquishes his grip on my wrist, I hasten towards my mother, bending over her delicate frame to place a tender kiss on her forehead.

A rebel tear slides down my cheek and splashes across her porcelain skin.

“I’m sorry, ma, but I have to go with them. If I don’t, I’m afraid they will do something crazy, like kill you, and then me. I love you, and I wish you had been honest with me from the start because I have no idea what’s real and what’s not.” I whisper, wiping her hair out of her face as I look down at her and take a mental snap of her sleeping form. “I love you…” I sob, as I turn away from her.

“Don’t allow them into your heart, my child. The second you do, it will all be over.”

I look down at my hand as my mother holds on to it in a death grip that surprises the hell out of me, preventing me from walking away from her.

“Wh…what?” I breathe out, lifting my gaze to search her face.

“Lock your heart up and throw the key away, child. You are the descendant of a powerful Mo