Chapter 54

I gasped. “Oh my God. Me? Are you saying I’m the baby?” I chewed on my lip as my heart raced waiting for her response.

“Araya Zoldeck, daughter of Angelique, granddaughter of Antoinette Zoldeck. From your mother’s sacrifice, you survived, thrived on your own and found your way back. You are and will be a force to be reckoned with.”

My heart was beating out of my chest. I was overloaded with information and could barely wrap my head around it all. It was unbelievable and yet I knew it was the truth. My mother gave her life for me, and my grandmother avenged her death resulting in her own. Even though I had never met them and was just seeing a picture of them for the first time, I felt like I had known them forever.

“What happened to me after Antoinette passed? How did I end up with my parents?”

Iyana sighed. “Antoinette’s resolve was unwavering. She knew once she unleashed the amount of power required to do what she needed to do she would not survive, but I did not know that at the tim