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Chapter 0736

Nina

My mother pushed open the large double doors, revealing the library. With the walls lined with seemingly impossibly high bookshelves, a glass ceiling and tall stained glass windows, it almost felt as if I was walking into something out of a fairytale.

"What did you want to bring me in here for?" I asked as my mother and I stepped into the room.

My mother smiled and took my hand, leading me through the winding bookshelves. It felt almost like a maze in here, and as I looked up at the dizzyingly high shelves, I couldn't help but wonder just how many books were in here.

"Now let's see..." my mother muttered to herself as she began perusing the shelves. "Hmm..."

"Mom," I said, running my finger along one of the pristine books; not a speck of dust was to be found, even though the title was something about ancient burial rites, which I doubted was read very often. "How many titles are in here?"

"Oh, hell if I know," my mom said with a chuckle. "But I'm sure, whatever book you want or need, it's here."

I let out a small laugh. "God, I wish I knew this was here when I was spending a fortune on textbooks for my classes."

My mother smirked, then let out a small "Aha!" and pulled a particularly worn-looking tome off of the shelf. She held it out to me, and I took it. The cover was plain and unadorned, with only one word on the spine.

"Ancestry?" I asked, glancing up at my mother.

She nodded. "I was perusing the books myself and stumbled across it," she said. "Take a look. I think you'll find it quite interesting."

nearby bench and opened the large tome on my lap. I was met with pages upon pages of dense writing, with the occasional hand-drawn portrait scattered throughout. Dozens of men, women, and children were depicted in these

up at my mom, who was

nodded once again. "This is

mom was right; each and every one of the people depicted in this book were related to me somehow. The entire history of my family

looked back up at my mother with a mixture of shock

said. "But what does this have to do with what we were

and sat on the bench beside me. She leaned close

the yellowed page with her index finger.

a narrow nose with a prominent ridge, and

But then my mother stopped me, and pointed to another portion of

suffered from a disease that rendered her legs mostly useless, was a master apothecary and herbalist. She could

family," I murmured. My eyes widened as I continued down the page. "Oh my god. She found the assassin

lineage," my

but no words would

she was a genius. She saved an entire line of people thanks to

was a princess,"

friends and I all sat around, lounging on the plush furniture after dinner. I was curled up in the crook of Enzo's arm, flipping through that ancestry book while the

at this," I said, pointing to a portrait of my great-great uncle Henry. "I didn't know that any members of my family

tired and weary from a long day of training. "Maybe you'll wind up in that book one day,"

see Matt standing over us. He softly cleared his

I said, standing. Enzo stood along with me