Chapter 257. Making Plans

MORGAN

2 WEEKS LATER

"Are you ready?" I ask my brother. Finn nods his head, a look of apprehension. I squeeze his hand, offering comfort and subtly conveying to him there was nothing to fear.

This was the first time he would be witnessing me call our mother forth, the first time he will have seen her in years. For me, it was normal. I had been calling our mother forth for years. If not for my own reasons, then because our father, Orion, demanded speaking to her. Whenever Orion came back to Andora, it's what he always asked of me. Sometimes he would talk to my mother for hours, sometimes it was only for a few minutes. But the conversation was always the same: Orion crying and saying how sorry he was.

A tear slipped down my cheek as I recalled the night he killed her, and all the conversations over all the years I had been privy to witness.

I calmed my inner emotions, steadied my breathing, and spoke the words out loud: "As it shall be