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“More riddles? Yes, please! ‘You’re Daddy’s little girl, to have and hold’.”
Rya…
I sat up. “What are you doing?”
He told another ‘riddle.’ “A precious gem is what you are.’ ”
Turning toward his face, I growled, “Who’s side are you on?”
Without guilt or delay, he answered, “Mine. Always mine.”
He whistled the creepy fucking tune.
Then it hit me. Onus had said, “Finally following the tune?”
I stared at Lu. “What’s the meaning of the tune?”
His wings shrugged. “There are rules he can’t break.”
Realizing I was getting closer to some truth, I got to my knees. “What do you mean? Onus?”
Lu’s face scrunched in a teasing manner, his blue eyes looking more piercing. Just as Onus had, he sang, “Someone is good at stomping on buttons.”
I thought about what had just transpired in Onus’s prison. “He pissed everyone off, on purpose.”
Condescendingly, Lu tapped my nose. “As I said, there are rules. He needed to get you here to me.”
I swatted his hand away while thinking.
Holy shit.
As if Lu felt he was a miracle worker, he sighed. “Now you know why your mother loves him. He’s a fighter, too.”
I hated Onus. Always would, but I had hoped for an ounce of redemption. And now I had it. I grabbed my hair and yanked. “So what is he trying to tell me? What are you supposed to tell me for him?”
Like a smartass, he replied, “Besides what’s been in front of your mug this whole time?”
“Lu!”
“Okay! Okay! Geesh. Back to the riddles.”
“No!”
“’You’re mommy’s bright and shining star.”
“Please, no more games!”
As if I were only a child, he thumped me on my forehead with the heel of his palm. “What is Rya’s strongest trait?”
“Easy. Her eyes.” Wait. I imagined the eagle, bright in the night, like a star.
Lu whistled then sang, “You’re the Easter ‘bunny’ to mommy and me.’ ”
I blinked in dismay. “Easter? What?”
Now he smacked his own forehead. “Oy vey! Thunder! What do bunnies do?”
My mind snapped back to the very first day I met Rya, while she prayed for her bunny who kept having— “Babies. They keep reproducing.”
