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I took another look around and my eye lingered on one photo in particular on the fireplace mantle with a familiar face on it. The glass frame was shattered as if someone had thrown it and tried to superglue the pieces back together.
“Is this your family?”
Catalina nodded as she made her way to the fireplace,
“We don’t talk anymore and honestly for everyone except my mother, I miss them sometimes.”
She stared at the broken photo and then glanced back at me,
“Do you miss your family?”
Yes.
“Sometimes I do but I understand why they stay away,” I said as I gently placed the broken picture back on the mantle.
“Gabriel comes around though.”
I don’t know why.
Gabriel had been “visiting” me on and off for years. I never understood why he even bothered. We weren’t super close growing up. He had always been plastered to Micheal’s side as younglings but as he got older we grew somewhat close.
“I’ve never seen Gabriel act the way he did the other day.”
Neither have I.
“What’s going on between you two?”
I can’t tell her.
Catalina reached over, taking both of my hands in hers.
“Please.” Her voice was so soft and delicate as she looked up at me with those big beautiful green eyes of hers.
Anything. Anything for her.
“I had a feeling that your gift of fire wasn’t just an ordinary gift. Your flame felt different. So Gabriel and I wanted to know more-”
“My gift is from Hecate. Gabriel said a lot of her followers have gifts like mine.”
Fuck this is going to hurt her.
“Your gift is not from Hecate.”
Her face slowly began to pale,
“Gabriel and I reached out to the Fates and they showed us what your gift is and how you got it.”
She squeezed my hand a bit tighter,
“And?”
“They showed us that when your mother was pregnant with you she had a bad feeling, so she went to see a psychic and was shown something that frightened her. She met with a man-”
“My dad?”
Fucking Hell. I can’t tell her this.
“The man who raised you is not your biological father.”
