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"What did ive for your birth, Ari?"

Leaning back into Charlie, Ari gulped, sensing so for h his blue eyes re for power"

"I don’t understand"

"Your mother, Sala, he told you she was a powerful Ifrit, yes?"

Ari nodded,fear and anticipation She slid a hand up to clutch Charlie’s fingers, needing an anchor to the real world as she waited for the revelation she kneould try to blow her off her feet

"Sala is the most seductive Jinn we’ve ever come across Even more seductive than the Lilif like Jai’s mother My brother believed he could use her to steal the Seal of Solo Asmodeus," Jai explained before she could ask

Ari nodded, looking back and forth between the this out "So did she?"

The Red King pinned her in place with his electric gaze "To our utter surprise, yes She returned to The White King with the Seal He proht heenchantment to conceive a child within her woreatest power on this earth -- broke the seal down into its basic properties, stealing itsit into the child’s DNA"

This time, when the silence descended around the roo in her chest It raced even harder at the feel of Charlie’s own heart pounding against her back He was probably confused but he could feel the air of expectation, the crackle of legend sparking in the air

Ari sucked in a deep breath, a hysterical laugh desperate to erupt out of her She controlled herself though andme I’m the Seal of Solomon?"

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My Na that could prepare a person for discovering they were a pawn in a war between s

Unless you know… you were Frodo But Ari wasn’t Frodo She was just Ari

I’ around her shoulders as he stepped around to peer down at her with alarm and confusion in his dark eyes Not even the warm familiarity of his face was a comfort at that moment

Ari felt frozen with fear as the full reality of what The Red King and Jai were telling her hit her When it becah iet you up to speed but right now--"