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."

at her and then

she washed

up." Wendy came over and

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

perked up. "Are we

are." I sighed. "But I want to talk to my dad

looked at me over my shoulder. "Where are

father...he used

best."

"All dads think they know best, but mostly they are just too afraid of their kids

I rolled

laugh and then I headed to the back

and back." My two friends nodded. "Tell my mom when she comes down

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

1/3

see my mother in shorts and a t-shirt with

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

I grimaced. "Mom, ew."

phone on to the table. "Baby.

she

hear me coming. Tell daddy I said hi." I shook my