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"IT IS A GOOD THING THAT YOU REMEMBER."

"You can't do that—" She begins to debate but he cuts her off.

"There are a lot of things I can do but you don't know about."

She huffs in defeat, not able to say more.

He adjusts on his seat, his eyes still intently set on Aubrey's face. "Even if you won't believe all what I am to say, it is better you know of it."

She doesn't say anything but keeps listening.

"The moment you were born into this world, your destiny was never to become a good daughter that a parent could be proud of, neither was it to be a sister or to graduate college and get a good job."

Aubrey's facial expression says it all that she doesn't believe the sentences coming from his mouth. She begins looking round the house, searching for an item of escape. Then, she peers out of the glass window at the side of the kitchen to see a black car parked there.

If there is a car, there is a car key.

"Your purpose is to be that last piece Kai is searching for all his life but he won't find it."

Her face scrunches up in pure irritation.

"Because if he does, that would be the end of all living things even the spiritual realm. You need to be kept away from Kai, no matter what it takes."

"Okay. I will stay away from Kai no matter the circumstance. Can I go now?"

Connor groans, seeing that she still won't open up to his words. "If you're scared of heights, or scorpions or even ghosts and the devil, you should be ten times more scared of Kai, that is how dangerous he is."

Aubrey slowly starts to get convinced as she reflects on that moment in which she felt pure and intense fear while being close to her robber.

"Even the gods are terrified of how much power he holds, that is why they took out the most important part of him, took it far away where no one would find out about it. But that is the one terrible mistake they made. Unknown to all the gods, that part taken out of Kai was powerful enough to form a human being."

Aubrey's eyes fall to the ground as thoughts whirl round in her mind. 'Why does this sound familiar?' she asks herself.

"But we should have thought about it. If gods could mate with humans and give birth to demi gods, why wouldn't something like this happen?" He talks to himself but loud enough for Aubrey to hear. She can tell whatever this story is must have caused a lot of chaos.

Connor looks completely lost in thoughts as he stares up at the ceiling, "We should have known something was wrong the moment that pregnant goddess walked into our village, especially when she was banished from the Olympus. Then none of this would have happened."

His voice drips with regret.

That is when the familiarity of his words hit Aubrey at its fullest and her eyes widen. She slowly begins to realize this story and the last he told her when they first met, aligns with the tragic fairytale she heard in the bookstore three years ago.

She swallows hard, getting scared all of a sudden.

"Is something wrong?" Connor notices a change in her demeanor.

She shakes her head forcefully, "Umm," She trails, not sure if she should ask. "That story... Is it the same with the pregnant woman crying in the forest?"

The next day after she ran out of the bookstore three years ago, her parents brought home the exact book she was initially sent into the bookstore to get. She still remembers Brady's reaction when he realized she hadn't gotten him the book: pure agitation. Her fourteen-year-old brother's face had lit up like a fully charged lamp when she walked out of the bookstore, only to get his feelings crushed.

It was a stupid comic book about the supernatural which she had no interest in but she couldn't say that out loud; that would be going too far in hurting her brother's feelings. It was because of the book she had to go into the bookstore and suffer the mind-wrecking story telling from that old lady.

A small curve forms on the edges of his lips, "So, you do know the story."

"Answer."

He turns a deaf ear to her tone, "It is." He continues, "If what you're trying to confirm is this, then yes." He pauses, leaving Aubrey confused. "That village she stumbled upon is my village and that baby is Kai."

She swallows.

"We took him in after his mother died during labor and that is how we became brothers."

She swallows hard this time.

"Listen. You need to know how big the situation you are in right now is." Her eyes comes up to meet his as he speaks, "We once reigned amongst great gods; Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena, Hermes, Poseidon but our sins caused us to be thrown out of Mount Olympus and we have lived in hiding amongst humans for thousands of years. However, the Queen, Hera, wanted to punish us more even after she banished us. So she sent a baby down to us through a banished goddess."

Aubrey shifts uncomfortably on her feet, running a hand down her face.

"And that baby was created by Hera as a curse to bring suffering and chaos on us. Then at the end, that baby is to bring death to all of us." He squints his eyes, finding difficulty in speaking the rest words, "That baby is Kai. And after we knew about the prophecy, we tried to keep ourselves alive and kill him before he could kill us." He lets out a breathy sigh, "That's how it all started and it hasn't ended." 

"This..." She trails, "This can't be—" 

"If you think that is bad, just know that the gods want to kill you too."

Her face perplexes.

How is this possible?

She heard the story three years ago and now she is hearing it again but from the actual people in the story and the craziest part is that it happened more than centuries ago. That only means the flawless looking man in front of her is over a thousand years old, even if he looks twenty-three.

"You have to believe me, because your life depends on it."

She inwardly groans. It sickens her whenever they mention how her life depends on the story and she has never been the type to believe in destiny or the spiritual. She does not plan on believing; she is keen on the fact that all this is staged.

"Kai didn't break into your house for a toaster, he came looking for you. And now, he is going to do whatever and when I say whatever, he can kill everyone in your town just to get to you, even your brother."

"What?" Aubrey's voice comes out in a soft whisper.

"That is why you have to be kept away from him because who knows what he would do when he is finally reunited with his missing piece. And you are that missing piece," He stresses his words. "You were not born of natural course like the other kids, your formation is from a god."

Aubrey pushes her hands into her hair, finding everything too much to take in.

Connor continues, "It takes so much power, divinity, spirituality for a human to be created, now imagine how much was taken away from Kai." Connor starts to speak furiously and it becomes too unsettling for the brown-haired. "And he wants what was taken from him and that is you. He wants you and he will not stop until he has you. So—"

Aubrey cuts him off, getting on her feet. "This is all bull-crap. You expect me to believe that I was formed from a god and he possibly wants me dead? I don't even believe they exist!"