Chapter 0522

For a moment, I felt detached from my own body. The shock of what my father had told me sent my body spiraling, leaving me feeling drained and empty.

"So the visions," I finally managed, swallowing, "did she..."

"No," my father said quietly. "She didn't see a shadow entity, or whatever you called it. But she had her own demons, Nina. Perhaps the 'entity' you see now is a machination of your own pain, just as her visions were machinations of hers."

"What sort of pain did she have?" I asked quietly.

My father's face blanched slightly, and he sighed, staring down at his desk.

"Your mother suffered a great deal during her upbringing," he said softly. "Her parents died due to disease, and she bounced from home to home. There were things that happened to her as a young woman that I won't dare to repeat. Forgive me, but I can't."

slowly, choosing to empathize with my father's feelings.

sickness, or however you'd like to call it, could be

of me. "So you think I'm doomed? That I'm going to lose my child like my

face seemed to age a decade. "That's precisely what I'm worried about, Nina. Your mother was never alone during her pregnancy with you and Selena. We made sure of it.

what about the sleepwalking? The visions? What did you do for her then?" I pushed, feeling the urgency escalating in my

from

it?" I interrupted, maybe a little more harshly than I

them entirely," my father admitted. "You and Selena were both healthy, unlike the

to someone who specializes in these kinds of

he was on the same page.

but not entirely dismissive. "We can consider it, but with caution. Not everyone has the best intentions,

father's words, I felt a heavy pallor take over the room. My father was right; plenty of people had proven to be snakes with ill intentions. How could we

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