Page 33 of Lies That Blemish
‘They are a ten-minute flight from here, in a small park. Do you want to see him?’
Tetra was looking at me like I’d grown two heads, probably because I’d just stopped talking and was now wide-eyed.
‘Yes.’I wanted to cleave his head from his shoulders!
“I gotta go. Sleep at the house with the girls?” I asked her.
She nodded, frowning. “You okay?”
I looked over at the people still lingering, talking about entering the emergency Lottery, and nodded. “Tell you later.”
When I walked over to Liana and slid my leg over her, she took to the skies.
‘Your powers don’t work on Kohen,’she reminded me.
He was impervious to fire and now could apparently block my thrall powers.
‘Do you think he will try to hurt me?’
‘No,’came her immediate answer.
‘He killed me the last time I saw him,’I reminded her.
‘I don’t think he will ever do that again, and he only did it because he saw you surviving in a vision.’
I hated that she was on his side.
‘I’m on your side, young one. But I can tell you, when I look at Kohen and you together and I see his energy… he loves you. Truly.’
That tore a hole right into my bandaged heart. ‘He thinks he does. Killing my father isn’t love.’
Unless itwasto save my life, but even then, it was messed up.
‘He thinks he does,’she agreed.
‘Do you forgive Onyx for what he did?’When I was attacked in the Wilds, Onyx attacked Liana and killed her.
‘A mother always forgives her children, even if they are misguided and make mistakes.’
Well, Kohen wasn’t my child, and there was no forgiveness in me for him yet. Not without proof of his outrageous claims.
‘Why is he here? I told him not to come.’
‘Onyx said he had a new vision.’
‘I don’t care,’I snapped at Liana, though I wasn’t mad at her.‘I can’t believe anything he says.’
‘Maybe just hear him out?’ Liana offered.
‘He can tell me through Onyx.’
‘He is saying he wants to tell you in person.’
Of course he did. So he could manipulate me—and I was falling right into that trap, flying to see him with no backup. He could kill me again, and this time, maybe I wouldn’t come back.
‘Your power won’t work on him, but I can still rip his throat out,’she assured me, causing me to smile.
We lowered ourselves into the thick vein of forest that ran along one of the more rural neighborhoods. I pulled my blade, feeling the anger I’d been carrying for Kohen rising in my chest.
