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.

I inherited the abilities of both of my parents. I was a

her that memories would fade, and so would the scars, Inez didn’t quite believe it. How could the scars of the past fade when she still remembered the berating words that her mother said to

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

She pulled her knees close to her chest and placed her hands on top of her 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 shouldn’t let others

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

I was held in reverence. Just like how Killian 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.

them all in their arse for causing you so much pain. It won’t happen tonight or tomorrow, but someday it will." Inez assured the woman and at the same time realised the burden that she was carrying on her shoulders. A burden that she wasn’t close to solving. "What you can do is prove to these bastards that you are still the same Selene Sokolov. Even if you are no longer the huntress who could kill several coyotes and foxes with one quick move, you are still the same person. The same courage still resides in your heart. If you run, then they will forget the glory that

know about that, Inez. The fact that I succumbed to the lies of a man is enough to prove that I was

you believed

"Kill?"

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