Chapter 381

LUMINA I didn't know why. Didn't know how. Didn't know if it was coincidental or if someone—something—had deliberately sent me back. Supernaturals existed. Werewolves, nightwalkers, werewitches, fae. Magic was real. Time manipulation wasn't outside the realm of possibility. But who would do it? And why? Was there a price to pay? That question kept me awake some nights. The nagging fear that this second chance wasn't free. That somewhere, somehow, I'd accumulated a debt that would eventually come due. Had I already paid it? Was all the chaos and danger and near-death experiences the cost of getting to keep my family? Or was there something else? Some future payment hanging over my head like a sword waiting to drop? I'd never told anyone about this. Not Xenois. Not even after everything with Sophia had been resolved, after Riley's parentage was revealed, after the truth came out about the manipulation and lies. I'd had opportunities. Moments when the conversation naturally led toward dis