Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 435

Chapter 435

childhood.

Her words caught me by surprise. Not because they were true, but because she felt they were. "Oh, baby." I cupped her face. "Just because you are a shaman, and you see more than you should, doesn't mean I have to add any more on to ruin You are a kid, and I want you to stay that way until you are older."

She pouted. "But why?"

your

I crouched down so I could be level with her. "Being old isn't what it's cracked up to be. We have bills and responsibilities. But most of all, we worry. We worry about what going to happen, what our actions will do, and what we can't help. That's not fun." I tugged on her pigtails. "I want you to be a kid. When all of this is over, you are going to be going to school with the other kids. You will get to play, and just grow up at your own pace. Don't rush it, okay?"

She watched me for a minute and then nodded. "Okay."

I smiled and kissed her head. "Good." I stood up and walked out of the room. Carly caught up to me and slipped her tiny hand into mine, and we ended up walking down the stairs with each other. "Okay, I'll be back in a little while and then we will get started on

the box of paperwork."

"Are you looking for something?" Her voice was soft, but eager.

"I don't honestly know. Maybe?" I chuckled as she looked at me with her tiny pinched brows. “I guess we will find out together."

her and then stopped with Toya

as she washed the

us up." Wendy came over and rubbed my back. "It's

I shook my head. "But I have bigger things to focus on." I leaned in to Wendy. "Today when I come back, I have to work on paperwork, and Carly is going to help. But when she goes to bed, I want to talk about the

Toya perked up. "Are we moving

nodded. "We are." I sighed. "But I want to talk

"Makes sense." She turned away, but then looked

apartment building." I walked to the door. "My father...he

best."

but mostly they

I rolled

out another laugh and

"Tell my mom when she comes down to where

outside right now, texting your father.” Toya wiggled her eyes brows, and I wanted

1/3

to see my mother in shorts and a t-shirt with her phone in her

any normal twenty something year old woman, and not the fifty something

I grimaced. "Mom, ew."

she blushed as she slid her phone on to the table. "Baby. I

as she looked

who didn't hear me coming.