“My mother was your sister? You’re my aunt? And all this time you didn’t say anything?”
“Mira,” she started. “You need to understand—”
“I need to understand? I’m sorry! What is it exactly that I don’t understand that I need to understand? Like why an actual relative who knew where I was just abandoned me?”
Iactual“The only way to protect you from this life that killed both of your parents, that killed my sister, was to keep you away from it!” She matched my intensity. “Do you think that was easy? Do you think—” She stopped and took a breath to get hold of herself. “Whoever was responsible was in the Daruidai. It wouldn’t be the first time the Daruidai had been led astray. Ponce de Leon used the Daruidai to do terrible things. He saw anything that didn’t align with his vision of Christia
