After Sina left to travel with the guys to her father’s estate, her real father didn’t return to Sina’s bedroom, where I lay until almost midnight. He walked in with a large glass bowl, herbs, and some blood in a container.
father’s I eyed it, then scanned him, wondering what he’d been up to.
“Why’d you really stay behind?” I asked. “With the power that you possess, you could’ve stopped this war for good. That man who calls himself her father is only human. He might be smart, but he doesn’t have your strength.”
“Sina must face her demons alone,” her real father said to me with his back turned. He placed the bowl on Sina’s dresser and began pouring in ingredients. “She will get nowhere in life without pushing herself to become a better and stronger Paragon every single day. She must do t
