doesn’t get through to our world.”
“I agree, so maybe I should become part of this group of yours—”
“Sierra,” he interrupted. “The Alliance has put an order on your life.”
“What?” I pushed the chair back and stood.
“That’s not all,” he said. “There’s one on Willow too.”
Was he serious? Her great-grandmother was the head of the Alliance! It hit me like a ton of bricks, hard enough to make me fall back onto the chair. “She wants to kill her own great-granddaughter.”
“Sierra, remember why I’m telling you this. You wanted to know, and we both know you can handle and deal with this.”
I swallowed the lump in my throat, barely. “So this Alliance wants me as dead as the Obscurus ? And they’ve thrown my sister under the bus too? She’s just a kid!”
“The order doesn’t kick into effect until the end of October.”
“Then what, you have to kill me? Or Lavie, maybe Sally has to do it?” My heart was drumming so hard I could hear every beat inside my ears. Something else made total sense now. “That’s why Sally saw my death in the tea leaves and got so freaked out, isn’t it? Here I thought she was talking about the other freaks.”
“Sierra, goddamn it, just listen to me.” He grabbed my arm, forcing me to look at him. “We didn’t know about the order until after she’d read the tea leaves.”
“That’s comforting.”
“No one is going to kill you. The prediction is not going to come true.”
Tears were blurring my vision. As hard as it was to realize an organization formed to end supernatural threats had made me a target, it was even harder to accept they’d bundled my innocent sister with me. “If even the good guys want me dead, why won’t it come true?”
Oren leaned closer. “Listen to me. It’s not going to happen because I will never let anyone kill you or Willow. As long as I’m alive, no one will ever harm my granddaughters.”
“What can you do when the order is enforced?”
He sighed and looked away. “It’s not going to get to that. When you get your full powers and eliminate the Obscurus , the order will die with it.”
I looked into his hopeful face and realized something. He knew as well as I did that no matter whether I inherited my rightful power or not, the Alliance would still want to remove the supposed threat I posed. The good guys didn’t want one person to have as much power as my grandma had organized for me to inherit. “You know that’s not true, so don’t lie to me.”
“Sierra,” he whispered. “None of us will ever execute such an order.”
I nodded, wanting him to think I believed him when I knew he was just trying to make me feel better. This order had already been placed, the time it went live didn’t really matter. Sure, maybe I wouldn’t die at the hand of Oren, Sally, or even Lavie, but someone else would step up.
“They think I’ll become a threat regardless, don’t they?”
Oren nodded. “But we know it’s not true.”
There was no way in hell this was going to happen. I wasn’t going to let anyone kill me, or take the life of anyone else I cared about. I wasn’t about to forfeit everything I’d survived and learned during this crazy year. After discovering my true family linage and the extent of my power, I could accept there would always be someone wanting to take or stifle it. But it was mine.
Good or bad, I was bound to become too powerful for either side and no one wanted that.
I was doomed either way, but wouldn’t go down without a fight.
“Sierra, did you hear me?”
“Yeah, I heard you.” I licked my dry lips. “But it doesn’t change the fact that my sister’s great-grandmother wants us dead.”
“She’s not going to succeed,” he whispered, squeezing my arm.
“No, she won’t.” I looked him in the eye. “I’ll kill her before she gets the chance to kill us.”
Chapter Three
I slammed the door of my 1972 Ford ZF Fairlane but didn’t bother to lock it. I
“I agree, so maybe I should become part of this group of yours—”
“Sierra,” he interrupted. “The Alliance has put an order on your life.”
“What?” I pushed the chair back and stood.
“That’s not all,” he said. “There’s one on Willow too.”
Was he serious? Her great-grandmother was the head of the Alliance! It hit me like a ton of bricks, hard enough to make me fall back onto the chair. “She wants to kill her own great-granddaughter.”
“Sierra, remember why I’m telling you this. You wanted to know, and we both know you can handle and deal with this.”
I swallowed the lump in my throat, barely. “So this Alliance wants me as dead as the Obscurus ? And they’ve thrown my sister under the bus too? She’s just a kid!”
“The order doesn’t kick into effect until the end of October.”
“Then what, you have to kill me? Or Lavie, maybe Sally has to do it?” My heart was drumming so hard I could hear every beat inside my ears. Something else made total sense now. “That’s why Sally saw my death in the tea leaves and got so freaked out, isn’t it? Here I thought she was talking about the other freaks.”
“Sierra, goddamn it, just listen to me.” He grabbed my arm, forcing me to look at him. “We didn’t know about the order until after she’d read the tea leaves.”
“That’s comforting.”
“No one is going to kill you. The prediction is not going to come true.”
Tears were blurring my vision. As hard as it was to realize an organization formed to end supernatural threats had made me a target, it was even harder to accept they’d bundled my innocent sister with me. “If even the good guys want me dead, why won’t it come true?”
Oren leaned closer. “Listen to me. It’s not going to happen because I will never let anyone kill you or Willow. As long as I’m alive, no one will ever harm my granddaughters.”
“What can you do when the order is enforced?”
He sighed and looked away. “It’s not going to get to that. When you get your full powers and eliminate the Obscurus , the order will die with it.”
I looked into his hopeful face and realized something. He knew as well as I did that no matter whether I inherited my rightful power or not, the Alliance would still want to remove the supposed threat I posed. The good guys didn’t want one person to have as much power as my grandma had organized for me to inherit. “You know that’s not true, so don’t lie to me.”
“Sierra,” he whispered. “None of us will ever execute such an order.”
I nodded, wanting him to think I believed him when I knew he was just trying to make me feel better. This order had already been placed, the time it went live didn’t really matter. Sure, maybe I wouldn’t die at the hand of Oren, Sally, or even Lavie, but someone else would step up.
“They think I’ll become a threat regardless, don’t they?”
Oren nodded. “But we know it’s not true.”
There was no way in hell this was going to happen. I wasn’t going to let anyone kill me, or take the life of anyone else I cared about. I wasn’t about to forfeit everything I’d survived and learned during this crazy year. After discovering my true family linage and the extent of my power, I could accept there would always be someone wanting to take or stifle it. But it was mine.
Good or bad, I was bound to become too powerful for either side and no one wanted that.
I was doomed either way, but wouldn’t go down without a fight.
“Sierra, did you hear me?”
“Yeah, I heard you.” I licked my dry lips. “But it doesn’t change the fact that my sister’s great-grandmother wants us dead.”
“She’s not going to succeed,” he whispered, squeezing my arm.
“No, she won’t.” I looked him in the eye. “I’ll kill her before she gets the chance to kill us.”
Chapter Three
I slammed the door of my 1972 Ford ZF Fairlane but didn’t bother to lock it. I
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