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.

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.

scars, Inez didn’t quite believe it. How could the scars of the

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

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

all about what happened between her, Laxus and his brother. She knew that he would tell Inez about it, and she wasn’t against it, nor was she unhappy about

that Killian would follow me as

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

head. She said, "I don’t know about that, Inez. The fact that I succumbed to the lies of a man is enough to prove that I was a

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 Inez. She paused and then added, "Why don’t you try to

"Kill?"

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