do it?”
“Tonight.”
My mom cried again and my dad hugged her with me in her arms.
“Two weeks, I only got two weeks.”
“She’ll live, Katie. That’s the most important thing.” my father said quietly.
My mom nodded. “What about Jako?” She looked at Tanya again.
“He won’t give his consent. I’ll have to do it without his knowledge.”
“Tanya…”
“He’ll understand one day.”
That night I met Cara. She was relatively big but still young. I wished I could touch her, tell her how much I appreciated this. So many people had died to keep me alive. Was it really worth it?
We saw how Tanya prepared both the potions. My father played with Cara for a long time. He had a sad look in his eyes.
Around nine Tanya took Cara outside the cabin and they left for a short while.
“We can’t let her do this,” my mom said.
“Do you have a better plan, Katie?”
She shook her head.
“Then it’s our only chance.”
When Tanya and Cara came back, I watched how Tanya fed one part of the potion to Cara and my mom the other one to me through a bottle.
She struggled as I was already so weak. She kissed me for a final time. Her lips lingered for a long time on my head. “Be strong and know I loved you more than anything in this world,” she whispered. My father was next and Tanya took both me and Cara into another room. My mother collapsed in tears and my father knelt down beside her and wrapped his big arms around her tiny body. Both cried as they just held one another.
A strange feeling started to emerge in my stomach and I looked at Lucian.
“It’s time to go,” he said and a strong force pulled us out of that time warp. We landed on the top of a mountain.
We were surrounded by trees and the night was gorgeous with a million stars in the sky. Lucian went to sit near a tree and I took the spot in front of him. He wrapped his arms around me tight. “She loved you, Elena, both of them did. They never wanted to give you away.”
“I know. It’s just so unfair, so many people had to die, Lucian. You, Jako, Brian, Cara….my mom.”
“I’d die a thousand deaths for you. A part of me always knew who you were.” Our hands entwined with one another. “When you told me that day that you heard poems, I knew immediately. I just couldn’t put two and two together. How you’d escaped the Wall. I guess I didn’t want it to be true. Then my father told me right before I left why they’d changed their mind and who you reminded them of. That’s why he stared at you that night, because you are your father’s child, Elena. You have his eyes, his hair, except the rainbow thing.”
I laughed.
“My mother told me you carry her as well. The way you are reminded her of Catherine.” He sighed. “When I finally got to speak to Tanya, it didn’t take long for me to guess. I just had to say your name. She was devastated by the death of Jako and that you didn’t know. I immediately knew that Paul was a danger and he wanted to hurt you, but I panicked, that was why the interference was so bad. I knew Paul was lying and I knew the darkness in Blake was too strong, otherwise he would’ve said something a long time ago.”
“He knew?” I said.
“Elena, you would’ve died if you’d tried to claim him with Cara inside of you. Nothing happens without a reason.”
I shook my head. “He lied to all of us, Lucian. People died because he lied.”
“Can you blame him? He didn’t want to be tamed, and that was not Blake. It was the Rubicon.”
“I don’t care, he’s both.”
“Elena, he will change.”
“I don’t care! He hates my guts.”
“I don’t believe that.”
“Well I do. I felt it.”
“There is another foretelling, it was the first one Irene ever saw. She predicted it when she was alone. It’s about a love so strong that it could conquer anything it wanted, change barriers and make history. The words to the entire foretelling are beautiful. Many tried to live up to it, but none could ever hold it. I thought she was talking about us, but it wasn’t us. It’s you and Blake. He would love you like no other, Elena.”
“I don’t trust him.”
“It doesn’t matter. The Blake I know will spend a lifetime earning it when he’s