A Touch of Fate_A Bear-Shifter and Curvy Girl Romance by Aidy Award

Author:Aidy Award [Award, Aidy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07FNXCF2K
Publisher: Coffee Break Publishing
Published: 2018-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

6

Responsibility

The group around Tia erupted into a barrage of protests. They didn’t understand. But her lion did.

Topper, the same woman who’d helped her and her sisters escape so long ago whistled so loud everyone quieted down. “Shush your faces, girls. I’ve got something to say and I want to make sure Tiaret hears it.”

Even the lion waited for Topper to speak.

“Girl, you listen, and you listen close.” Topper took her by the shoulders and stared so hard into her eyes. “This is not your fault.”

“But—”

“Shh and I’ll tell you how I know it isn’t.” Topper waited until Tia nodded. “Good. You listen too, pussy.”

“Auntie.”

“Cat.”

“Get on with it,” her lion growled.

Topper rolled her eyes and took a deep breath. “No matter what you think they made you do in there, it was to survive. That’s what you are, a survivor. Your mama made sure of that. You remember.”

Kady and Ash both stared at Topper with their mouths hanging open.

“Yes, girls. I erased your memories like your mother asked me to, but Tiaret was stolen away from me before I could do that. She remembers it all, don’t you, honey?”

Tears pooled along Tia’s eyelashes. She didn’t want them to see her cry. Both Kady and Ash were so brave, she didn’t want them to see how weak she was.

“It’s okay to cry, child. You do that, and you own the choices you made to get through the dark days and then you move on.”

Tia didn’t know what to say. She didn’t even know what to feel. This whole thing was too overwhelming. She was sure at any moment Kelebek was going to crawl across her face and she was going to wake up and be back in her cell at Omega.

“Oh no. Kelebek. He was in my cell.”

The man who was also her lion frowned when she said that. “Your cell?”

“Yes. Where the Red Witch,” Tia looked over at her sisters, “Scarlet, kept me. She’s become very powerful.”

She couldn’t hold the tears back now. She’d dealt with her parents’ deaths and her abduction long ago. But Kelebek had been her only companion for so long.

“Who is this Kelebek?” Her lion asked.

“My butterfly. My friend.” A new emptiness opened in her heart. If he was dead because she hadn’t protected him, it would break that hole open never to heal.

He narrowed his eyes at her and then turned on his heel and stalked away.

She didn’t say or do anything right. “Where is he going?”

Kady’s mate scowled at her lion’s retreating back. “He knows he’s in the wrong and going off to curse the Fates.”

Kady patted her on the arm. “He’s not great at being around a lot of people.”

That Tia could understand. Besides the little bit of time she spent with the soldiers this was the most interaction she’d had with people in a long time. It was exhausting and overwhelming.

Ash nodded. “Fed is always disappearing.”

Fed. She rolled it around in her mind. It didn’t quite feel complete. “Is that his name?”

“Wait, you don’t know?” Her sisters exchanged a look.

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