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CHAPTER 546
"You knew?" Cullen asked, more shocked to himself than the fact that she did.
"Of course, I did. I was the child born with her powers and so she kept me hidden. The human race does not need two mages, she said. It would scare them. Be my eyes in the shadows."
"How… No wonder I felt that way when we met."
"No need to feel anything. We were torn from each other right from the start. I never could approach you. It was more annoying knowing the truth and not being able to do anything, than being ignorant."
"But I always felt there was something missing and thought that perhaps it was the lack of my family. But now… My family has always been my my side."
"Cullen," Bayard called out softly. "My son."
"Your son?" A peal of sinister dark laughter resounded. "Your son?" She scoffed at him. "Have you forgotten how ashamed you were and you could only let him into your palace as my ward and not as your son!"
