Kieran's POV

I stared blankly. That couldn't be true.

If Vivian wasn't Rhea's mother, Who was?. Did Rhea even know about this ?

And that word tugged at something in me. Bend.

"What do you mean by bend her?" I demanded, the word tugging at heart. She wasn't an animal, well not in the literal sense.

"She needs to be trained. What she carries will break her if she's not trained" he muttered, dismissively.

Something snapped in me, sharp and dangerously. I leaned in, my face very close to him. ...