"You are the child sent to Mallory. You are Maximus' illegitimate child."
No!
I am my mother's daughter.
My mother's name is Stella, not some imposter!
I shook my head in denial and stared at Dorian as tears ran down my cheek.
This is a dream. All of this is a bad dream.
I want to wake up. I want to wake up from this terrible nightmare.
Please, goddess.
I want to wake up from this dream!
"So... You knew who I was when... when I first came here?"
As much as I dread the answer to that question I knew I had to ask.
"Yes."
Dorian's reply struck a painful chord in my heart and my heart sank.
He knew me.
He knew who I was and that was why he took me in.
Would he have helped me if he didn't know who I was?
"Melody, I ..."
"No. Don't say anything," I shook my head and
