Scarlett I was still waiting for my mom to reply and answer me why she thought it was a good idea to hide the fact that I was apparently a hybrid from me.But I wasn’t angry…At least not in the way I thought I would be. I was more hurt than anything. Deeply, quietly hurt in a way that felt almost worse than anger.Mom stared at me, tears still streaming down her face. “Because I was terrified.”“Terrified of what?” I asked, my voice trembling. “I know you might have been trying to protect me, but didn’t you for once stop to think that I deserved to know who I was at least?”She wanted to lean closer to me but I instinctively leaned back, so she stopped, hurt evident in her eyes.“That wasn’t it.”“Then what was it?” I asked and she took a shaky breath.“When your father died, I was left with you. You were barely a child, Scarlett. I had just lost the man I loved, and suddenly I was responsible for protecting his daughter from an entire world I wanted nothing to do with anymore.”She
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