Moonborn: The Devouring

Chapter 10: Secrets Revealed

My mother's confront was a veil of calm, but I seem sense the pressure underneath the surface. "What are you talking around, Elijah?" she inquired, her voice dribbling with sweetness.

Elijah's grin was charming, but I seem sense the steel underneath. "I'm talking approximately the truth, Mrs. Wynter," he said. "The truth almost Aurora's past, almost her destiny."

I felt a shudder run down my spine as I realized what Elijah was saying. He knew something around me, something that my mother had been keeping from me.

My mother's eyes flashed with outrage, but Elijah fair inclined forward, his eyes bolted on mine. "Aurora, you merit to know the truth," he said. "You merit to know who you are, and what you're competent of."

I felt like I was holding my breath, holding up for Elijah to uncover the insider facts that my mother had been keeping from me. And at that point, fair as I thought I was going to detonate from expectation, Elijah spoke.

"Aurora, you're not fair a Wynter," he said. "You're a Moonborn, a coordinate relative of the old lunar witches."

I felt like I'd been punched in the intestine, like all the discuss had been sucked out of my lungs. A Moonborn? What did that indeed mean?

My mother's confront was a cover of wrath, but Elijah fair grinned. "It's genuine, Aurora," he said. "You have the control of the moon interior you, holding up to be unleashed."

I didn't know what to say, didn't know how to prepare the disclosure that Elijah had fair dropped on me. But as I looked into his eyes, I knew one thing for beyond any doubt: my life was never going to be the same once more.