Book Seven: Chapter 176

“I see how it is, Caretaker! Not man enough to do it on your own, are you?”

Mike knelt at the fountain’s edge. “So if we ask real nicely, you’ll help me get my children back?”

Mohan smirked. “No. Asking nicely won’t do it. I want her.” He pointed at Ratu. “I want her word that she’ll return with me and fulfill the pledge she made to stand by my side so many years ago.”

Ratu looked at Mike with more than a little fear in her eyes. He realized at that moment that she would rather die than go with Mohan. However, if he asked her to go, she would do it just to help him.

“She doesn’t belong to you,” he said as he stood. “And she never will.”

“Then you should probably just kill me,” Mohan said, pulling dramatically at the collar of his shirt to reveal his chest. “Because I intend to come back for her, Caretaker. No matter how many times it takes, she will be mine again.”

There were many things Mike wanted to say. He wanted to explain that he wasn’t a ki