Fate (Drift Series Book 4) by Michael Dean Read Free Book Online

looked down, turning my back to them.
    “Leo, do you know why we showed you what we just showed you?” Argento approached me at my side.
    “Of course, to show me his nature. As if I didn’t already know. You want me to forget what he told me about not trusting you either, I understand the game now. I’m in the middle of a tug-of-war between the two sides. I get it.”
    “No, that’s not it.”
    I looked at him confused. “Then why?”
    “Isn’t it clear to you…yet?” He smirked assuredly at me.
    “I wouldn’t be asking if it was, Argento.”
    “The soldier, Captain Leonard Smithey, Leonard, Leo , is you, son. That was your life before you fell under the deceptions of Christian and the Drift Demons like yourself. That was the life you lived that ultimately led you to what you are now.”
    The shock flowed through me. No Drift Demon ever gets a glimpse about who he or she was before they became a beast. I was stunned and even more confused now.
    “I don’t follow, he-Leonard-me, didn’t kill my wife or my child, I took my own life over having to do such a thing. To me, it seemed noble…not evil. I was condemned for eternity to be this…for that? I didn’t feel like I was an evil soul back then. I felt a troubled and confused soul, not a monster. It doesn’t seem fair.” I despaired.
    “Well, there are some sins committed prior to that, but that is of no importance at this point. Sins that mankind has a tendency to overlook in times of war. Regardless, you still took a life…your own. By every definition, that’s still murder.”
    “But-I-I…” I couldn’t come up with the words to say about what I was feeling inside and just shook my head in rebuttal. It still didn’t seem right to me, but it was much too late for that now. I was what I was. Nothing could change that.
    “I realize this won’t help bring you comfort, but the reason why you have overcome most of you demon tendencies is because you were a good soul when you were human, a good soul that made mistakes. Sometimes things like that bleed through with the soul, wherever it goes, with whatever it becomes. That is why you feel the things you feel and have the ability to love and care for those that you do, because of the choice you made in the end. There was some good, some nobility as you said, in that choice.”
    “Maybe…but I’m still here…I’m still…this.” I pointed at myself.
    Argento turned to me at my side. “Yes…you are still this. A demon that cares for a human, a demon that has humans that care for him, a demon that has knocked out two of the most powerful beings that have ever corrupted mankind, and a demon that has the chance to do what no other beast from the depths of Hell has ever done before…win his freedom. That’s who you are, and that my boy, is unique.”
    I looked over to him and nodded in approval.
    “Don’t you ever forget that, Leo. You have greatness within you that you have already let shine, no matter what you are. Stay on point, no matter the odds, no matter what happens and that light within you will never go out. You’ll see.” He smiled.
    “I appreciate that, Argento, I really do, but other than making me feel a little better, it still doesn’t help my cause.”
    “It will help you more than you already know, trust me.”
    “I hope so, but as for trust, I’m not quite there with you all on that just yet.” I grinned.
    “Well, maybe there is something I can do about that as well.”
    I squinted at him, displaying my confusion.
    “There is one more part to the story that you saw, one more reason we showed you a segment of your past life.”
    “And that reason is?”
    “Your daughter.” He smiled.
    “My daughter?”
    He nodded in approval.
    “I’m afraid I don’t understand.”
    “Where do you think an innocent, young soul goes after they die unjustly?” He looked sheepish.
    “I’m assuming they go to your realm…so what?”
    “Indeed they do.” His smile grew even