Chapter 406: Chapter 406

Chapter 406

Mason

The five of us settled into our places in the living room. The last time Stella had sat in that chair, her legs. dangled. Now her feet reached the floor. They were bare, and it occurred to me that we’d have to get her a

whole new wardrobe.

It was a stu pid thing to be worried about at a time like that, but I found it was easier to focus on the practical aspects of the situation to keep myself from disintegrating into a spiral of confusion. Because if I didn’t have something to focus on, I thought I might lose my s hit, just a little.

Not like my brother, though. Pulses of his Alpha energy kept swirling out of him. It felt like a rain of icy pebbles sca t tering over all of us. Our Luna and our Beta were doing their best to counteract him with warmth and soothing bursts of their own energy, but I also had to put in some of my own.

Alpha on Alpha-it was like two magnets touching the wrong ends. Every time I tried to help my brother get

himself under control, we sprang violently apart.

“Daddy.” Stella’s calm voice surrounded all of us like the lap of waves on a shore.

She held out her hands, palms up. Light suffused the air around her. The ends of her hair floated, cr ackling, as more light built its glow until it

when

encompassed Xander. His eyes were blazing with his wolf, but

Stella’s light reached him, he closed them.

“Daddy,” she repeated. “I have answers for every question. Everything is going to be all right.”

Zane and I shared a look. How was she doing this?

Stella was the daughter of an Alpha and a strong Luna who’d been blessed with unique gifts, and all of us belonged to the Moon Goddess in ways we didn’t fully understand. Was it possible that Stella had an Alpha and a Luna’s powers, maybe even some of a Beta’s?

That was the only way I could imagine her being able to surround all of us in this glowing blanket of

peace.

Lanie was the only one of us who didn’t look confused by what our daughter was doing. Whatever she’d read in that vanishing book had given her the heads’ up. I could see her mind turning as she watched Stella work her magic on her agitated father.

Magic, I thought to myself. That’s what it had to be. Some kind of magic none of us had experienced

before.

Xander opened his eyes, fully calm. “Apologies, Stella

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I see now. I mean, I feel…hell, I’m not really sure what I mean. But I’m ready to listen to whatever

to tell us.”

you have

Stella grinned. “Good. I’m ready to answer any of your questions. Mother has one. I can tell by the look on

her face.”

“Was the book true, Stella?” Lanie’s voice held a hint of tears but also something that sounded like hope.

A little fear. Pride, too. “Do you have every ability of every supernatural to ever exist?”

Stella nodded, her expression solemn. “Yes.”

Xander groaned and leaped off the couch to pace.

Zane’s head fell back against the cus hions. I just stared at our daughter and her mother as they held a

long, solid look between them. I didn’t know what to do, say, or even feel.

“I am a Celestial,” Stella said gently to us all. “That means I am part of everything, and everything is a part

of me.”

“From birth,” Lanie said faintly. “You’ve been able to do all of this since you were born.

Again, Stella nodded. “Celestials are born aware, into the infant bodies of their parents. I can’t speak for any others, only myself, but…you wanted and needed me to be your baby, so that’s what I remained. At least as long as I could. I did what I thought was best…

with the Celestial ‘dream’, so you would have some awareness. I never wanted to hurt or frighten you,

Mother!”

Lanie shook her head. “All of this must have been so hard for you. I’m only sorry you didn’t feel like you

were able to tell us before now.”

“There was so much you and my fathers had to face. I didn’t want to add to that struggle,” Stella said.

“Until now? What changed?” Xander asked.

Stella raised her hands again to bathe us all in her warmth and glowing light. I closed my eyes to bask in it, letting it take away my worries. I loved my daughter, but more than that, I trusted her. I had to.

“I tried to be your child for as long as I could. I wanted to do all of this slower, for your sakes, but there

isn’t time for that anymore.” Stella looked at each of us in turn. “Danger is coming.”

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