Free Rebirth - The Beautiful Fallen by K.D. Peters

sexually assaulted her as well.  But as I saw him write about her more and more, I noticed that it seemed like he had developed a particular hatred of her.  And right before he planned on killing and taking Faith Evans, he went in and apparently killed her when she was in the hospital.  He’d set her on fire.  He even bragged that he’d kept her soul for himself.  A pet, he called her.  I felt myself frown then.  Some pet.  She’d almost killed me.
                  Once I finally finished reading that part, I found that I had gotten to his plans on killing Faith Evans.  And he did write about how he'd succeeded.  He’d thrown her in front of a train while Jade helplessly watched.  His words about it were very chilling too.
                  He’ll never have her now.  She belongs to me.
                  Well, I thought, he definitely planned it out well and knew exactly what he wanted to do.  But flipping through more of the writing, I began noticing a pattern.  The dates were in increments.  And each entry spoke of new incarnations of this woman.  Flipping back towards the end, I finally found the one I was looking for.  It was his writing about my birth mother, Faith Kent.
                  I’ll be the first to admit that I really didn’t know that much about Faith Kent in the end.  I knew some of what Chris had said, and that it was claimed that her father had ended up killing her right after I was born.  But reading through the entries he’d made, I began to have the sense that she was a lot like me.  Faith Kent seemed very lonely from what Saffron described.  He actually admitted feeling pity for her.  He claimed that such a pretty creature shouldn’t be left to rot like she was by her bastard father.  So he wanted to get closer to her this time, instead of tormenting her like he had done in the past with all of the prior reincarnations.
                  But then, there was a distinct change in his focus all at once.  I actually had to reread one of the passages several times over to believe it.  He began talking about his desire to have a child.  Apparently, he was aware of other Fallen Ones, as he put it, who had successfully done it.  And he claimed that Jade had a child as well, although decades before.  These children were forbidden and often hunted, but they were also special in his eyes.  Children of a revolution, he called them.  He wanted his child to be one of the ruling ones.  He had the power to give them.  All he needed was a willing, child bearing woman. 
                  And with Faith Kent, he apparently found that.
                  “She starves for my attention, so easy it is for me to take her whenever I feel like it.  I’ll make sure that the seed is planted before he finds her.” I read softly.  So there it was.  My planning and creation.  Saffron had definitely planned me out.  And apparently, he’d also taken steps to make sure that I’d stay protected as well.  But what had happened to him since that time?  I hadn’t seen him in my lifetime, or at least, for what I could remember of it.  Could he have just decided to abandon me?  It seemed very odd that he was so hell bent on creating me, then turned around and abandoned me.
                  That didn’t make much sense either though.  Not when I thought about the pendant I wore around my neck.  I hadn't mistaken Chris’s words about that.  He was using this pendant to at least keep track of me.  And I had an even bet that Saffron had been the voice coming through it to warn me about getting out of that house.  Was there some specific reason now that he could only use that to speak with me? 
                  Suddenly, I heard a soft click.  Looking down at the box, I realized that the bottom had clicked and opened a little bit.  Apparently, there had been a hidden compartment there.