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of you,” he stated.
    “An example?” How confusing.
    “Surely you can see? If he’s willing to execute his own flesh and blood, then anyone who acted out against him would receive a death sentence as well.”
    “So all of this…this running and hiding is so that he won’t kill me?” Somehow I knew there had to be more to it. A man of such power shouldn’t be so concerned over a granddaughter, who had nothing to do with the magical community. Why try to make an example out of someone who meant nothing to anyone?
    “That’s what everyone believes,” he said.
    “But you don’t believe that? You think it’s something else?”
    He simply nodded as my mind spun with more questions.
    A flash back of my younger years was trying to resurface. The barren closet with one light bulb and the man who attacked me began to form before my eyes. I stood up, quickly shaking my head to clear the pictures before they could completely form.
    “Why can’t we stand together and fight him?” I couldn’t imagine running for the rest of my life.
    “There was talk of it years ago, while you were just a small girl. I remember sneaking in to the council meetings. Everyone was scared. Our Covens were hunted as ruthlessly as you were. The Triad captured and tortured Coven members because they thought we were hiding you. The Covens had no choice but to split in groups of five or less just to remain unnoticed. When the Triad disappeared from our world so suddenly, we thought they’d found you.”
    Dagger got up and grabbed a clean pair of clothes out of the closet. I sat in silence, willing him to continue. He grabbed the door handle and started to turn it. With a soft sigh, he leaned his head against the wood. It looked like he was fighting against the words that wanted to be spoken.
    “They sent me to you. My Coven did. Our Seer saw you in a vision.” He gripped the clothes tightly as if trying to search for the right words to his story.
    “They sent me to you with a vial. I was to make you drink every last drop and make sure your heart didn’t stop beating. I was to wait three hours and no more. It was torture finding you the way you were. Getting that vial of liquid down your throat was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do. You were so ready to give up…” He paused to scrub his hand down his face.
    “I waited the three hours and then they called me home. One minute, I was kneeling at your side, brushing the blood-caked hair off of your face, and the next I was kneeling in the healers hut. I never knew what happened to you.” Dagger turned the door knob and walked across the hall, closing the bathroom door behind him.
    I sat numbly on the bed. He’d seen my battered body when he had come to my aid. His Coven had saved my life, yet left me on my own. I was only a child. How dare the Coven come into my life now and tell me what to do, when they couldn’t be bothered to step in when I needed the protection the most.

    I stewed on what he said until he came back from his shower.
    “Am I supposed to be grateful now? Your Coven brought me back from the brink of death and then left me alone,” I snapped at him.
    Dagger ran his hands through his hair with a sigh. “Listen, things were different back then, not like they are now-” He tried to explain but I cut him off.
    “Don’t tell me to listen! I don’t want to hear your excuses for why I was left on my own. I was only a child and your precious Coven left me defenseless against an unknown enemy!” My chest heaved in and out from sobs that tried to break free. I wasn’t going to let the tears come. I wanted to hang on to the anger that lined my soul for all those years spent alone and scared.
    “Damn it, Jade, I didn’t want to leave you! I was only a boy myself and the elders forbid us to further assist you.”
    “What?”
    “Our Covens elders wouldn’t allow us to take you in. They feared everyone would die trying to save you. It was a chance they were not