SWNOVELS Chapter 415
Chapter 415
Lanie
“No!” Stella’s command rang throughout the villa like a clap of thunder.
It was enough to stop my grandfather in his tracks. He took a couple of steps
back, a hand on his chest. He looked so astounded and affronted that I couldn't
help myself. I burst into a loud round of guffaws.
“She’s stronger than you are,” I told him proudly.
Malachi’s lip curled. “She wouldn't even be a Celestial if it weren't for me.”
“The moment you reveal to the High Council that you know their game, you push
them to attack. And
you're not ready to face that,” Stella said. “Are you ready to listen to me?”
“I need a drink.” Malachi strode to his bar cart and poured himself a tall glass of
red fluid from a carafe.
He drained it quickly and poured another.
took my seat again on the couch. “Tell us everything we need to know, honey.”
Stella linked her fingers together in front of her and bowed her head for a
moment. I was learning to tell
what was going on with her. How she needed moments to process the
information in her mind.
It took only a few seconds, but I had a feeling she’d worked through an almost
infinite number of
connections and scenarios before she looked back to me
In that moment, my heart ached for the burdens my daughter faced. Yet, there
was no denying my pride
and my awe. Stella hadn't been on this earth very long, but she'd already made
such a difference.
“Yes, yes, get on with it,” Malachi said in a bored tone.
Stella didn’t seem to take offense, although I did on her behalf. My grandfather
was a really arrogant pain in the a ss sometimes, and that was saying something,
considering the Alpha males I was mated to.
“Gabriela was never on the side of the High Council, no matter what her husband
did or wanted. They all knew it, and, even though they were hell bent on keeping
the knowledge of any other supernaturals away from- their next generation, they
had connections with witch kind.” Stella crossed to the bar cart and poured
herself a drink from the jug of water.
She also got one for me, which she pressed into my hand. “Drink, Mother.”
+hadn't realized how thirsty I was until she said something, and I ¢c hugged the
water down. Stella sat next to me on the couch again. She heaved a heavy sigh,
and put my arm around her shoulders.
done.
“Take your time, honey,” I told her, even though I was desperate to discover what
the High Council had
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“After the Great Wars, the High Council knew it was possible for them to lose
control again, no matter
how hard they clung to it. No matter what atrocities they planned or put into
place. They wanted a failsafe.
Some guarantee of protection, and of course they couldn't request it from the
Moon Goddess.
Everything they did was performed outside of her light.” Stella finished her water
and put the glass on the
coffee table.
“And Orion offered them Gabriela as that protection? How?" I asked her.
“Because they knew that Gabriela would be on any side that opposed them.
They had a powerful warlock
integrate her with a third eye,” Stella said.
Malachi actually gasped. “That's-
“Don't say impossible,” I cut in. “You've been declaring that nothing she tells us is
possible when clearly,
all of itis.”
Stella smiled at me. “He has a reason to be incredulous. Integrating a third eye
into anyone, much less an
unknowing and likely unwilling subject is a task even the most powerful warlocks
and witches would struggle
with.”
“Yet, they managed,” Malachi said.
She nodded. “They killed the warlock, immediately after, and the High Council
members who found him
are also dead. So there’s nobody alive who can remove it from her.”
“What does the third eye do? I assume you're not talking about an actual eye,” I
added, thinking that surely
I'd have seen it if Gabriela had another eye on her face.
“It's internal, yes. It allows anyone who has a scrying tool connected to it to see
what the third eye sees.
“A mirror, a crystal ball, a pool of water. Even a glass of wine can be a scrying
tool,” Malachi said, sin
was obvious I didn’t know what she was talking about.
For once, he didn't sound smug or patronizing about it.
“Exactly,” Stella said.
“So, they can see whatever Gabriela is seeing by looking at this scrying tool?”
“Which gives them access to most anything here in Brightsky,” my grandfather
added. “Of course, Gabriela
hasn't been given permission to visit any of our heavier secured areas...”
“But she could see the spiders,” Stella said. “And so far, that's been enough. If
they manage to kill enough
of them, they'll be able to do whatever else they want.”
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