Chapter 222: The Worst They Can Do?

And there she was. The aether that had been twirling and swivelling around her rippled and faded in golden glitter as Inez opened her eyes. Unlike the other sirens, she didn’t have better control over her magical abilities yet. The second she lost control, it would disappear, but at least it got the work done.

"What are you doing here?" Inez questioned, taking Selene by surprise. The woman was sitting by the small pond that was hidden deep in the forest. "Don’t tell me you came this far to see the stars?"

She noticed that Selene’s hands were tightly clenched in her lap. From her tense shoulders to the hard gritting of her teeth, Inez could see that something had happened when she and Laxus left her. Something that stepped on Selene’s pride, and yet the woman couldn’t counter because of her pitiful condition.

Inez sat down on the floor and started speaking, "You know, when I was a kid, my mother never took me to any parties. I even missed that big quinceañera—she told me that I didn’t deserve it for being a monster."

"Monster?" Selene turned to look down at Inez, who nodded with a smile on her face.

in the sky and sighed. "Usually, shifters only take the properties of one of their parents, but I was an exception. Somehow, I inherited the abilities of both of my parents. I was a shifter and you know..." she trailed off. "My mom couldn’t accept it; she couldn’t believe that she gave birth to a freak. She wanted normal, or as normal as

that memories would fade, and so would the scars, Inez didn’t quite believe it. How could

on her face. "It was not your fault that such a thing happened. You couldn’t choose what you are—if anything, it’s your mother’s fault for getting entangled with someone she had no idea about." There was very little known about sirens. Thus, it wasn’t anyone’s fault but Mrs Sinclair’s for getting involved with someone she knew

knees. "Just like none of this is your fault. It’s not your fault that you were poisoned, nor is it your fault that you are in a wheelchair. You

have told Inez all about what happened between her, Laxus and his brother. She knew that he

is at the moment. Everyone thought that I would be the first female alpha of my pack and that Killian would follow me as my beta. But then all of a sudden..." She dropped her gaze to her legs, which were as useful as a cotton ball in a blazing forest fire. "I know it’s not anyone’s fault, but it’s still a bit of a change for me to accept the

she wasn’t close to solving. "What you can do is prove to these bastards that you are still the same

head. She said, "I don’t know about that, Inez. The fact that I succumbed to the

Only the dead will remain unmoved in the face of promises and affection. And it’s not like you believed the words that he said to you," said

"Kill?"

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