A strange kind of strength settled inside Aaliyah after her death sentence was announced. She started to murmur reassuring words to the baby inside her womb, as her mind blanked from reality. She knew why Caspian and Clegane were so scared. It wasn’t because of Aaliyah having her powers back.
She’d played in their hands enough in the past for them to no longer be that terrified of her. Clegane had manipulated her with emotional blackmail, and she’d been too weak with emotions to resist. She’d been so foolish into believing that her father might change that she’d sacrificed her child for him. Her sweet innocent Skylar.
All for nothing.
But karma was a b***h. In killing her innocent child, they’d never envisaged that the one who’d survived would become the greatest threat to their existe
