And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

It took everything in me to leave that thought out of my mind in front of Kara. I had known the answer to that statement, and that was because of Castor. It was because of her I woke up. The being inside her brought me back, and if Kara knew, it may have changed her She may have forced them to leave now.

mind.

"Please," I whispered, with tears in my eyes. "You can't do this, Kara. They can't go through what I went through."

Low, heavy footsteps on the hardwood floor behind me caught my attention, and as I turned, I saw Damian stepping forth from the shadows of the hallway, his arms crossed over his chest as he looked between Kara and I before letting out a heavy sigh.

"This wasn't how I wanted you to find out. I was planning actually to have this conversation with you tomorrow," he said. "I need you to understand that this is for the best. It will help them."

"How could you?" I snapped at him, not understanding why he would ever agree to give her children away. "They are mine too, and you didn't even speak to me about this. You didn't even ask my opinion."

"How were we supposed to have asked your opinion, Ivy? You were unconscious for a year. What we did, we agreed upon in unison. We grew up not knowing how to control what we were, and it took over us until we were old enough to understand what was going on-" What Damien was saying made sense. He didn't even need to finish that sentence for me to know exactly where he was going with it, and tears continued streaming down my face as I nodded my head.

It wasn't Kara's fault. She was simply doing as Odin, my so-called father, told her to do.

"Okay," I hissed. "Eighteen."

for now. I will be back in a few years to check on them. If you need me, you know how to call for

but I wasn't about to tell

to Damian, who looked

fucking kidding

stammered

know that you guys were just trying to prolong it. I'm not angry at you... it wasn't like you had a choice in the matter. However, if they

head. "We have till their eighteenth birthday to find a way out of this. To find a way

to my children, when in reality, they were not. I may not have been an immortal anymore, but I was still the creature I had been

could feel her beneath my skin. Not

they thought they were going to ruin my family

find a way

The End.

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Authors Note

TWO more books in this series coming out. However, they will follow the line of Pollux