Forty-two

Malaki Crescent

The prophecy said we were going to have kids. But I didn’t think that Iris was going to get pregnant right away. We were in college still. We barely knew each other. Sure, we were mates, and there was a certain magic to that. But that was never a guarantee that we were going to end up exactly the way the Stars said. They were fickle things, and sometimes they had a mind of their own. What you thought they wanted could be the exact opposite. But in ...