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daughter would come. No children, other than Kam, had been born.”
    “That you know of,” Pitch interjected.
    Laszlo’s brow furrowed. “Yes,” he answered slowly, pausing in thought before he continued. “When I traveled to Earth on a Harvesting Mission many years ago, I met your mother, Alexa. A very special woman.” The look on his face softened. “At the time, we were still able to breed with humans who possessed no Xylon DNA. I knew she was the one, so she was initiated and during a breeder-release became with child.
    Alexa was that child and is the predestined one. Her children are the special births I’ve been waiting for and Daegal has been fighting against.”
    “You assumed,” Kam interjected in little more than a mumble.
    A slight smile crossed Laszlo’s face. “Well, yes, technically, that’s true. She could have not been the chosen one and another daughter, yet to be born, could have been. If so, she would have simply borne twins. However, I knew. My Visionary abilities are not that weak…yet. Especially when it comes to my own flesh and blood.”
    “A Super-breeder can have triplets without them being some sort of power triad,”
    Pitch said.
    “Not if that Super-breeder is a daughter from a power triad. Your triplets, Alexa, will reign supreme in this system and beyond.”
    “Supreme?” she whispered, a look of wonder and shock crossing her face.
    “How the fuck do you know that?” Torque barked out. “Why do you think you know what’s destined to be? Answer our damn questions straight out for once. Where are you getting this knowledge? Or are you just making it up as you go along?”
    “Alexa has fulfilled her destiny. That is all that is important now.”
    “Secrecy breeds mistrust, Laszlo,” Braden said in a low voice. “We need to know all there is to know.”
    Brianna felt more and more uncomfortable the longer this meeting lasted. “What if Daegal or the Top Commander had a secret daughter like you did? Maybe Alexa is not the chosen one.”
    “It is my belief that Daegal and the Top Commander have, over the years, become sterile. And whoever they attempt to breed becomes sterile, as a result, like with the Egesa Initiation ceremony. Though, that’s simply a theory of mine at this point. But it’s certainly an important theory if proven correct.”
    Braden and several others looked over at Alexa, who squeezed Braden’s hand tighter. Brianna wasn’t certain why. A lot had happened during Alexa’s Initiation and her Branding to Braden that Brianna had no knowledge of.
    “If they’re sterile,” Halah began, “they will know Alexa is the chosen one if they ever find out she is your daughter and has borne triplets.”
    “Are you all really buying this shit-ass story he’s spewing?” Torque asked.
    “They do know,” Kam spoke up, cutting Torque off, before he said anything more.
    And before anyone else had a chance to answer.
    Everyone looked over at him.
    “Rave knows. So I think we need to assume that the knowledge is circulating at the Egesa High Command or Daegal’s military facility in the Dome on Marid.”
    “Rave!” Torque barked.
    “How did Rave find out?” Braden asked. “If Daegal and the Egesa know about Alexa, that’s not information they’d make available to everybody. Rave is not exactly a part of their inner circle. She simply helps them with their dirty work.”
    “Maybe she’s the one who told them ,” Erik suggested. “And not the other way around.”
    Everyone looked to Kam for a response.
    “She’s a Sensor Reader. She could have indeed picked up on the situation…from me.” His face took on a pained expression.
    “How?” Torque asked. “A Sensor Reader isn’t a damn psychic. Unless you told her.”
    “Exactly,” Erik replied.
    Kam’s gaze briefly met Torque’s, then switched to Erik as he spoke. “I didn’t tell her. You know me better than that.”
    “I thought I did,” Erik replied.
    “Sensors pick up many things.