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“How did you even function after something like that?”

“I didn’t. Not for a long time.”

“I guess it helps to have someone supporting you as you did.”

“I didn’t have anyone.”

“What about Cage’s father? He must have been there for you, wasn’t he?”

“He didn’t want me to have Cage in the first place.”

“Oh no!”

“He was completely against it.”

“But he knew you were pregnant?”

“Yeah.”

“And you told him what happened at the hospital?”

“I told him. And the look he gave me afterward, told me all I needed to know.”

“What do you mean? What did his look tell you?”

“That he had something to do with why I didn’t have my baby,” she said looking into my eyes with sadness.

“That’s horrible! What do you think he did?”

“I don’t know.”

“Do you think he had Cage kidnapped?”

“I can’t be sure. All I know was that it changed me. I couldn’t get back to the person I was before and eventually, he didn’t want to have anything to do with me. That’s when I came up with a plan. I was going to get back what he took from me.”

“One day I asked to come by his place telling him, if I did, I would leave him alone forever. He agreed. When I got there, I made him his favorite drink and dropped something in it a fae had made me,” she said with a smile.

“What was it?”

She paused and then said, “It was something that would help me to get what I deserved from him but he wouldn’t remember.”

Her words hung in the air taking a moment to sink in.

“And, that’s how I was born,” Nero said putting it all together.

“That’s how I got you,” she said squeezing his forearms and staring into his eyes.

“You drugged him?”

Her tight-lipped smile dropped. She let him go and sat up.

“I did what I had to do to get back what he had taken from me,” she said looking down.

“So, I’m only here because you…”

“Nero, do you mind getting me another drink,” I said cutting him off.

He turned to me knowing what I was doing. I stared at him wide-eyed and shook my empty glass. He looked like he was about to ignore me when headlights lit the veranda. It was Cage and Quin pulling up.