Death's Dilemma (DHAD #2)
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“That’s because I’d already taken Cendall,” my dad said to Abram.
“NO! My sister would never be with a Reaper.”
“Why else do you think she’d hide her pregnancy,” my dad rebutted.
“NO, she…” I could almost see him connecting the dots in his head. “She did say protect ‘them’. I thought she was delusional, but I took the child away as our healers began to work on her. I had no time for questions.”
“But how does that make Lacie my sister?” I asked, breaking the conversation between the two of them.
“There’s no other explanation. You’re both eighteen, and she looks identical to your mother. You have your mother’s cheekbones and eyes, but she looks like a mini Cate.” My dad sobbed at her name.
“I thought you said I looked like my mother besides my hair.”
“You do, Cendall. You have her facial structure, eyes, and wild spirit. But your hair is your own—a mix of heaven and hell.”
“But Lacie’s birthday is not the same. It’s in August.”
“I changed it when I gave her to her first set of adoptive parents. I told no one that she was my sister’s child, as that was what she wished. But I did tell them that I’d found a child who was gifted that we had to put extra protection on. I’m sorry Cendall if I knew I was your Uncle I would have never,” Abram began but I cut him off.
“But we look nothing alike” I said as I pointed to Lacie and back to me.
“Fraternal twins,” Lacie said with a smile as she grabbed my hand. “It feels right, doesn’t it?” I nodded. It was insane, but I’d always felt that instant connection with Lacie. I’d blamed it on becoming soft when, really, it was instinct.
“It also explains why she’s been such a death magnet. Even though she didn’t display any signs of being a Reaper, she is drawn to death.” I said and all the heads in the room besides dad’s nodded.
“And I just thought I was unlucky,” Lacie sobbed.
“So wait, though. Does that mean Herald knows since Jake was his son? And if so, why didn’t Herald just kill me?” I asked dad.
“I think he knows some things, as it can’t be a coincidence that she was on your first list. But what all he knows, I’m not sure. I just thought he was always hard on you because he blamed me for his son’s death. When Jake died I, had to be the one to come and tell him about what happened. I told him there was a fight and that I couldn’t save him.”
“I knew that mother fucker was extra hard on me all those years. He hates kids, and especially me because he blamed you for his son’s death. I’d bet a hundred that he put her on my list dad.”
“That would mean he’s working with...”
“Exactly.”
“He can’t know everything. If he did, why wouldn’t he just tell the Mobrolantis about me in the first place?”
“He probably doesn’t know you are sisters. If I knew Jake like I think I did, he probably started working with the Demon to try and kill your mother. If you were a Reaper trying to get into Demon status, what better way than go to the Demon with the ultimate plan. I’d put a million souls on the fact that he told that Demon it was his kid and his master plan to get the Demon into heaven. Mobrolantis is under assumption that because Lacie is half and half that she’ll have powers that no other being possess. That she would be able to port to both realms. That had to be what he meant when he said those words to me. Nothing else makes sense. But in reality his plan failed because she doesn’t have any powers and couldn’t port that Demon to heaven even if she wanted to. No human or reaper that he’d be able to possess can port to heaven.”
“But I can.” I said exposing my secret. “I can port anywhere dad, heaven hell it doesn’t matter. It’s me he wants, and now I finally know why. He thought it was Lacie who could take him up to Heaven for an invasion but it’s really me. If he were to possess me, he’d be able to go anywhere. This is what he meant when it said it was me all along…he knows,” I said with a shudder as chills ran up my arms.
“You can port to heaven?” Everyone but Trevor asked in shock.
“This is way too much to process,” I said as I grabbed Trevor’s hand and he squeezed it tightly.
“I know, if I would have been honest with you from the beginning so much of this wouldn’t have happened. Have you told anyone else about your ability to port to Heaven Cendall?” Dad asked.
“No.”
“Okay that’s good, I don’t think they’d like that. But considering Abram and I have both found you guys so easily we should get moving now.”
“To where?” I asked not wanting to leave this place before I had time to process all of this. I’d gone from losing everything I ever knew, to now finding out I had a sister and an uncle I’d never known about. What if I had gone against my instincts and really killed her, only to find this information out at a later date. I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself…thank you instincts. All this time I knew something wasn’t right about this. Finally fate had given me a clue suggesting my assumption was correct.
I looked around the room. For once it held everyone I cared about at the same time. My old and new found family surrounded me, giving me temporary relief. I’d worry about a demon wanting to possess me tomorrow. We joined hands and dad ported us to our next location.
The end…for now.
More
Book three of the Death Has A Daughter Series is coming in March of 2015
www.deathhasadaughter.com
Other novels by Candice Burnett
Caylee’s Confessions Series
Caylee’s Confessions
Revamped
Death Has a Daughter Series
Death Has A Daughter
Death’s Dilemma
DHAD 3 (title TBA in 2015)