Now, here he was, sitting across from her, racking his brains for something he could do with her. He wanted to take a nap, or watch a movie, or anythi...g other than babysit. And she just sat there staring at her toes. She was a cute little girl, and he wondered what her mother looked like. From what he’d been told, Amanda had gotten pregnant at f******n and had little Amara here out of wedlock. She’d married a different man a few years later, and that was falling apart now. Nick wasn’t. Would she turn on me? I am not sure I could agree in her distinction. Her sense of betrayal colored her views and arguing with her would be futile. Yet I told her in no uncertain terms that Rene should know. She sighed, walked in an agitated manner over to the window and looked out to the street. A minute of silence seemed to be five. Turning with hands thrown into the air in a tone of frustration cried, ‘I don’t give a damn. Kate it is your decision, not mine. Do what you want. I just do not. Well, he remembers you Darian, so that’s a plus, right?“Chimera.”“I had hoped to slumber beneath the Earth for an age, until you were old or dead, and I could roam the surface once more.” His voice was gentle, but also gravely, and deep enough Darian could not help but picture the ocean and its black depths. Hearing him speak surfaced dozens of harsh, terrifying, thrilling memories for Darian, and all at once, the small warrior felt like he was standing before something ancient. Ancient as. ”Lynn dropped to her knees and put her face in her hands.“What a mess. I should have just kept walking and ignored him, but when he called my name I went into shock and when he threatened you and Dara, I didn’t know what to do. I have never felt so helpless. Not when my father’s friends took me or when I was having a baby all alone or when we ran away.”“I guess this all falls into that ‘secrets thing we thought that we were covering at our wedding’, thing. You should have told us the story back.