The Blood Moon Twins – Chapter 90

REMY

Cain looked at me and tilted his head. He took a step towards me, and my first instinct was to step back, but I resisted. As he got closer to me, I could feel something inside of me pulling towards him. My stomach felt fluttery, and I didn’t like the way it felt.

“What are you doing?” my dad demanded, starting to move towards us.

magic is calling out to me, though.”

Blade squeezed my hand, and I could tell he was feeling nervous about the situation. So was I, so I was grateful that

Cain asked.

ook my head. “I’m still getting familiar with my magic. I can control it when it comes to

You’re only eighteen.”

and dad, unsure of how to explain this. I

anging the subject.

hings he was keeping secret from us as well. “As I said, time is a tricky thing. Magic that can control and affect time is just as tricky, if not trickier. Com

nd the rest followed along.

with information. There was a desk that was littered with papers centered against the back wall, and a white board hung behind that. Cain took his sleeve and wiped the board clean. He grabbed a dry erase marker and drew on the now blank board. He drew a simple line and labeled the beginning “past,” the center “now,” and the end “future.”

g that is currently happening, and the future is the possibility of everything that could happen.” He drew a big circle around the “now.”

n’t go into that detail right now.”

ht before the word “now.” “Everything behind th

the white board with intense focus.

he most skillful sorcerer doesn’t know,” Cain explained.

o look. Sometimes a sorcerer can get a small glimpse, while other times they can see more.”

going to happen in the future, can’t you change it?” I asked. I understood how the past couldn’t be changed, but Cain acted like the prophecy was a guarantee. I had a hard time believing that was actually the case.

prophecy from coming true,” Cain said. He set the marker and turned to us.

st, but if you make the wrong decision, it could cause a lot of harm.”

ere was still a fear in me telling me I was just being selfish. I was worried that I wanted the prophecy to be a good thing because I desperately wanted a future with Blade.

If you agree to stay here one more day, I can show Remy how to look into the past wi

inking each other, likely discussing what the best option was. While getting this information was important, I was sure they were worried about the pack. If Draven attacked and someone was hurt or worse while we were gone, I was sure my dad would never forgive himself.

words. He had become more strict with pack members and increased the patrols. He had even gone out on patrol himself more than he used to. He was trying to overcompensate for Darian’s death.

h at stake for that.”

waste.”

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LUNA ADIRA

ld be together. It gave me a piece of mind that the children would be near us if anything went wrong here.

dea of being around Cain twisted my stomach into knots, but I had pushed through it for Remy’s sake. It wasn’t as bad as I had imagined it would be, but now that I was her

ars since I had seen him, and he felt like a complete stranger, but I never really knew him in the first place. He had been in my life for a flash and was gone just as fast, yet he left a scar on my life bigger than almost everyone else I had ever come across. I hated that someone who had been in my life for such a sh

he moon cycle often affected my strength and mood.

I had a feeling I

e I was friends with would have.

hat I would have been fine never seeing you again.”

king up at the moon with me.

y. It was the truth. If it weren’t for Remy, there was no way I would have looked for Cain, but I wanted to see her

hrough my daughter, but it didn’t make a difference to me.

asked.

on of Caulder. “The Council of Magic took him from me. They wanted to use him

heir thumb anymore. I thought giving up my magic and running away with your mother would be enough, but it wasn’t. Not when I discovered the horrors other sorcerers had faced because of them.”

, stopping myself from asking about Freya. I hadn’t heard anything about her since coming here, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted

not, but I didn’t think the answer would make me feel any better either wa

asked. I could feel his eyes on me, and I was sure he had sensed my shift in mood.

ge right now. I was already struggling with keeping it together as it was.