The voices in my head have started screaming again, only this time; they are telling me to do something … something to help these children that this monster is killing.
I’m stronger now, so I shut my mind off from Ishir. He is helping that boy, helping Everett and Kaylani try to save him, and while he does that, I go to Cyrene. I know what I have to do, even if it kills me.
I pick her up, kissing her and smelling her sweet, exotic scent, a mix of me and Ishir.
“Zephyr?” Nova’s quiet voice asks from the doorway.
I take one more deep breath of my daughter’s scent, then put her back in her crib before turning to Nova.
She’s breathing heavily, and there are tears in her eyes. “What’s going on?”
“I have to go end this Nova. I can’t let Oliver and his men hurt you or any of these children
