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I
could not contain it anymore. I thought we were past keeping secrets
    “What in the hell, Kennan? You have
been talking to Isadora this whole time without telling me. That whole ‘You
need to call Isadora’ bit was a load of bull wasn’t it? What’s going on,
Kennan? And don’t you dare bullshit me or try and wrap me in some protective
bubble, because it didn’t work the last time and it sure as heck won’t work
now,” I said throwing my body down on the end of the bed. I didn’t even want to
look at him I was so mad.
    “I just didn’t think there was any
urgency to the situation. Apparently, I was wrong. And of course I talk to
Isadora. All Guardians report to her. I just assumed you knew that.” He paused
rubbing his hand down his face.
    “You know what assuming does,” I
said snidely.
    “Funny. Listen, I would have told
you. You have to believe that. I wasn’t trying to keep you in the dark. I just
wanted you to have a few months of peace before everything got shifted again. I
wanted you to be free from this world for a while. Maybe give you time to
adjust. Hell, maybe I was just being selfish. Maybe I wanted to keep you to
myself for a while. Whatever the reasons they will never be enough to you. I
know that and I know that Isadora was right, I should have told you the minute
she knew.” He finished, falling to his knees in front of me. His face was
pleading.
    “What is it?” I whispered. I didn’t
want to hear the words that were about to come out of his mouth. I knew
somewhere deep in my soul I would never be the same again.
    “You will be replacing Isadora
soon.”
    I didn’t give him any time to
explain. I didn’t hear the next words out of his mouth.
    I got up and walked out of the room
with a ringing in my ears. It was all too much. The dead Seer, Kennan keeping
secrets, and not just any secrets but that I was going to have to take over the
Council. The world spun around me as I fled our room. I wanted to be as far
away from Kennan as I could get.
    I didn’t know where I was going. I
just headed in the opposite direction of his deceiving arse. He had promised me
he would never to lie to me again. Yet here we were. I couldn’t understand how
he had kept something like this to himself. How did he think that was okay?
    I couldn’t fathom being responsible
for all of the other Seers out there. Hell, I was doing well just to keep
myself in check. My stomach churned as I tried to find my way out of the house.
My mind became a jumble of unanswered questions.
    I ran out of the back door, almost
stumbling over the paving stones leading out into the garden. I slowed myself
down and tried to wrap my head around what was happening. Was Isadora going
into retirement? Would I have some sort of training period before I had to take
over? Was Kennan keeping anything else from me?
    I wandered through the garden maze
until I was out of sight of the house. My head was still spinning when I found
a bench to sit on. My vision blurred as tears began to stream down my cheeks.
How could Kennan have kept this from me? He had promised no more lies, yet here
I was with the world crumbling around me once more. He could have warned me and
instead he chose to let me walk into this blind.
    My tears continued to flow, part
desperation, part anger. Would I ever have any control over my future, or would
the rest of my life be a series of events set before me that I was expected to
fulfill? Ever since Kennan ripped me away from Chicago last year my life had
been nothing but a constant whirlwind of chaos and upheaval.
    I stared down at my shoes trying to
regain my composure when I heard movement to my right. I looked up to find
Conall approaching me slowly.
    “What’s wrong, lass?” he asked
lowering himself beside me on the bench.
    “The man I am supposed to trust
most in the world is keeping things from me. My future is never going to be my
own again. Someone is murdering Seers. Just the usual,” I sniffled,