This chapter was painful to write. I keep this really short since I don't want to drag on.

"Evony, Vex is here," Bo entered the observation room in Lauren's clinic. Lauren was standing by the side of Evony's bed, monitoring her condition. Heather was lying down next to Evony with her arm around the Evony's waist.

"You wanted to see me?" Vex asked the rhetorical question. He knew why she wanted him to be here. Evony was down to her final moment. He knew she wanted him to take care of Heather, "I know what you are going to say. You will get better and you will take care of your daughter by yourself, just like you did many years ago."

Evony coughed, "I don't want to die, but this is not something I can control. Heather is literally a two-year-old child. She is the Morrigan and she can't even feed or fight. She can't even talk yet. The elders are going to kill her and replace her. You have to keep her alive."

"I don't know, Evony. What do I get out of this?" Vex teased, "Maybe if you ask nicely." Of course, he would do this. Hell, he raised her son. He wouldn't mind raising her daughter. He did it once years ago after they recused her form her abusive father and he would do it again.

One thing he would't admit was that he would miss Evony. They had their best friend moment. He loved Evony as a partner in crime. They had always had chemistry together.

"I am not asking. I am commanding," Evony stated the obvious. "Did you think I got rich by being nice to people? No. I got rich from pressuring people to give me what I want." Dying and she was still feisty. She coughed again and there was blood coming out of her eyes and nose. She didn't want her daughter see her like that, but the stubborn little girl wouldn't leave.

"You already knew I would raise her as my own," Vex grabbed Evony's hand and planted a kiss on it.

"I did," Evony put her other hand on Vex's hand.

Lauren looked at Evony's heart monitor and her chart. Her condition was getting worst by the seconds. Evony only had minutes to live.

The room was in dead silent until Evony screamed in pain. Tears and blood filled her eyes. She felt like she was choking with her own blood. "This hurts so bad," Evony wrapped her arms around her chest and stomach area. Her inside was burning. Lauren injected more morphine into Evony's bloodstream. Evony hated the needle, but this eased her pain, "Baby girl, I am sorry I don't get to see you growing up again." She placed her hand on Heather's face.

Karma was a bitch.

"Mama, don't go," Heather talked for the first time after she was turned back into a child.

"You are in good hands," Evony smiled at her daughter and closed her eyes. The heart rate monitor bleeped.

Vex held a fist. Bo held Lauren. Heather held her mother.

"NOOOOOOO. It was your fault," Heather yelled at Lauren.

She saw this child crying, holding the lifeless body of her mother. Yes, she knew this child was actually a grown fae who was possibly a thousand years old, but she couldn't stop herself from feeling for her. She knew she was at fault. She was the one who killed the former Morrigan. She tried to pry the little child from her mother, but Heather's little hand gripped so strongly. Her tears dripped onto the beautiful woman's face and chest. Lauren knew this would be Bo's exact reaction in fifty years when it would finally be her time.

"I am sorry," Lauren mumbled.

= To Be Continued… =