Free Divine Blood (Vampire Love Story #6) by H.T. Night

farther. This time, the
door was closed and reluctantly, I stood there, not knowing what to
do. Did I knock? Was that polite? I looked at the guard and he
solved my dilemma by knocking for me.
    I heard the Deity’s voice
from the inside, “Open the door, I am up.”
    I slowly opened the door
and the Deity was once again sitting in her rocking chair. I’m
certain it was the one she had all the way back in Mexico. I
guessed it was still her favorite chair.
    “ Josiah Reign, is that
you? I had a dream you would visit and here you are.”
    “ You always know, your
Holiness, whenever I’m coming. I’m pretty sure the Triat informs
you any way they can.”
    “ It doesn’t work that way.
Sometimes, I can just feel it and others, I see it in a dream. I’ll
tell you this much. I know you’re not alone. You brought your whole
family.”
    “ Well, your dream was
pretty accurate. They are waiting above ground to come down and
speak to you.”
    “ Your boys are twelve?
Correct?”
    “ Yes.”
    “ And you don’t feel
talking to me would be too heavy for them?”
    “ No. It’s
time.”
    “ How much do you want them
to know?” she asked.
    “ Jason already knows
things in his weird supernatural way. I want him to hear it from
you.”
    “ Can I ask you a question,
Josiah? Is this the real reason? Or is it that you want to hear me
speak to him so you can have a better idea of how to save him from
his prophesied destiny?”
    “ It’s everything.
Regardless, we all need to know how to move on from here. We keep
hitting these roadblocks in our relationships with each
other.”
    She warned, “I disagree on
informing Jason that he will be martyred. He’s just a
twelve-year-old boy. Even for him, that absolute direct knowledge
would be too much for him to bear.”
    “ What do you suggest?” I
asked.
    “ We tell both boys that
one of them will someday save his people.”
    “ But leave out the
details?” I asked.
    “ Yes.”
    “ When Jason was five, he
mentioned to me that he was saving mankind.”
    “ He just might be. That’s
why this is critical. He can’t run and get scared. He needs to
think he’s in this with his brother and he will be able to handle
it.”
    “ What about poor Joshua?
How am I going to tell a kid that he might be martyred when I know
for a fact that it isn’t in his destiny?”
    “ Do you? Joshua is going
to become an amazing Mani.”
    “ If I allow
it.”
    “ You will. When the time
comes you will see the value in it for everybody...especially for
Joshua.”
    “ We’ll see about that. I
have to decide what is best for Joshua, Mani or Tandra. But, let me
get this straight. We plan on telling them everything they need to
know, except which one is actually martyred. We leave that a
mystery. That sounds pretty morbid. In fact, it’s cruel and
dishonest at a certain level.”
    “ You were the one who
brought the boys to me when they were twelve. Who is the morbid
one?” Oh, a conflict! That was about as feisty as I’ve seen the
Deity get and I liked it.
    After a short lull in our
conversation while I gathered my thoughts, she said, “Bring them to
me.”
    I wasn’t too sure about
her strategy of only telling the boys part of their destiny, so I
reluctantly agreed to go get Lena and the boys and have them meet
with the Deity. My entire family went down into the bunkers and
walked down the hallway to see the Deity. The door was already open
and the four of us entered her room.
    My boys both seemed
nervous and I wanted them both to relax.
    “ Boys,” the Deity said.
“You are twelve, correct?”
    Both boys nodded. I
motioned for the whole family to sit on the floor next to the
Deity.
    The Deity allowed us all
to get settled and then she said, “My first question is for the two
boys.” She continued, “You have known things about yourself, your
parents, and where you live that wasn’t quite right, but in the
beginning, you didn’t question anything because you