Chapter 40

Thea's POV My mother always told me I took after my grandfather; warm, auburn hair with miscolored eyes. I've always been ashamed of my appearance, my freckled face and eyes that seemed to stand out too much; I grew up different than all the other girls, with straight blonde hair and pretty blue eyes. I always wished I was normal like them. I prayed for those common brown eyes, and for an unblemished face. Growing up, my classmates would always make fun of me for having red hair, pasty skin, and 'alien eyes'. My perfect, highschool-sweetheart parents never found out about the bullying. They want me to live the perfect, untainted life, unlike my mother who never got the chance. My maternal grandparents weren't always around, and it took its toll on my mom. Although my parents were perfect at first, I didn't get the luxury of having both of them as I grew up. When I was only fourteen. my father had been brutally killed in an animal attack, the scar