"You are the child sent to Mallory. You are Maximus' illegitimate child."

No!

I am my mother's daughter.

My mother's name is Stella, not some imposter!

I shook my head in denial and stared at Dorian as tears ran down my cheek.

This is a dream. All of this is a bad dream.

I want to wake up. I want to wake up from this terrible nightmare.

Please, goddess.

I want to wake up from this dream!

"So... You knew who I was when... when I first came here?"

As much as I dread the answer to that ...