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of Logan. Even if it means I will disappear, I can live with that if I know you’ll get the ending you were meant to have. No one should ever have to live the life you will live if we don’t fix this.”
    I shivered a little. I was even more curious now about what Kye’s childhood was like, but his determination to change it made me not want to ask for details. It sounded like it would be too painful to talk about, and maybe too painful for me to know what my fate would be if we didn’t stop Logan. Maybe I would another time, but I had heard enough. My future with Logan was one that I wanted to avoid at all costs. I was a bit happy the goddess had given me more stones. Hopefully, that would be enough to keep me out of trouble.
    Kye threw an arm up and over my shoulder. He let out a loud sigh.
    “It’s nice to finally tell you.” He gave me a squeeze. The familiar warmth of family ran from him to me. “Even if I disappear at the end of all this, it was still the best few months of my life.”
    What had his life been like?
    Looping my arm underneath and behind him, I squeezed him back. He was the only reason I was still going on and fighting back. Without him, I would have been stuck with Logan. I was just as happy to have him as he was to have me.
    “I don’t know if I can grasp the son thing, you’re a bit too old for me to do that, but I will say you’ve been the best friend I’ve had since Logan found me to fake save me. I wish I had your memories of being a family. I wish I could remember you more as a child and everything that went on in our lives.”
    Kye pulled me tighter, squishing my head to his shoulder. I couldn’t see his face, and I wondered if that was the reason he was still hugging me.
    “When I was a child I lived with you until I was five. After Logan found out that your happiness was me, he took me away, trying to make you dependent on him. After that, I got to see you twice a year for a couple days. That was it. I grew up missing you and knowing that it was my father that kept me from you. We never were a family.” I was held too tight to look at his face, but I felt the lone tear drop on my head. “You taught me everything you knew about time travel. You knew that if I didn’t save you one day, no one could. I wish I could have saved you sooner and gotten rid of Logan. If he wasn’t around you would have never had to go through any of this.”
    Kye sounded defeated. I was surprised. He had saved me.
    “Could you have really done anything different?” I asked as he released me, and I could look up at him to read his face as he talked. “You were just a kid.”
    Kye shrugged. “I should have been able to. Kid or not, I was the only one that could help you, and I never did. I was too afraid he’d find out.”
    “He thought you’d change the past?” I asked. If that was true, why did Logan ever leave Kye alone with me?
    “Because I took a vow to obey our bloodline,” Kye replied. “In order to not bounce around time periods and never age, I promised Logan that if he left me in one time period until I wanted to leave, then I would do everything that was needed for my family.”
    “As in, he planned for you to help him?” I asked. Kye had seemed conflicted since the first day I met him.
    Kye shrugged. “I couldn’t go against him until you asked me to. See, you are my bloodline also. Logan did his best to always forget that. He always saw you as just a trophy and never a person. I wish I could have acted sooner, but it was the best I could come up with.”
    “You were just a child,” I replied. He’d been thirteen when he came to the past to live. That wasn’t old enough to be rescuing people.
    “I may have been young, but every year that passed that I didn’t help, it was my fault you had to live through the pain of being with Logan. I wish I could have gone back and stopped it all at the beginning. All the times he’s messed with your life should have never