All at once, I felt an onslaught of emotions. Happiness, fear. Euphoria, disbelief. Panic. Then another floodgate opened. I felt agitation, defeat, sadness, loneliness. Then I felt elation, then anger and finally, hurt so powerful it made my lungs constrict.
And they weren’t all mine.
I thought of Papa and how much I had lied to the ones I cared about, fearing this new development. And he heard them.
“Were you ever going to tell me?” I looked around, almost certain that the voice had come from a speaker somewhere in the room but it hadn’t.
Your bond will be where it is supposed to be like it was never hindered.
I should have learned to guard my thoughts at least.
“Come, Principessa. You have to eat something.” Ramirez lifted me off the bathroom floor, gathering me into his
