Chapter 39
Since I was a little girl, I’ve always been afraid of my father’s fury. It would give me nightmares. Alexxi was always there. Reading me bedtime stories and reminding me that Dad’s anger over the little mistakes I made would fade.
Now, he’s nowhere to be seen, and I’m all alone, faced with this problem.
“My life is falling apart. I have a sorcerer who’s after me, and now my family has gone mad. Dad please, you can stop all this.’’
“Elena,” my father barked as he entered the mansion, his eyes blazing with fury. “I taught you better than moping around and pitying yourself. So what if your life isn’t going as planned. You’re mother and I have lived four hundred years, not once did we fall and stay down. Stop this nonsense and step away from him. Now.”
Declan tightened his g
