The Last Star(The Last Star Trilogy #1)

Chapter 25

I turned towards Dad, the look on his face told me that everything I heard was true. It took me a while to process all of this. Granny fell onto that sofa and I stared at Granny's tattoos as if I'd never seen them before. Her right wrist held Virgo and her left hand was Pyxis, she inherited from her father and passed it to my grandfather and Grus was from her mother.

"I thought you were dead" I blurted.

"We all did" Granny muttered, her hands crossed over her chest.

"Why did you leave us?" Dad said. I could hear sadness in his voice. Years of pain hitting him at once.

"Antonio...." Alfred started.

"No," Dad said "I want you to tell me the truth"

"What truth?" I interrupted.

"It's a long story" Alfred said.

"We have all night" I said confidently even though I felt like throwing up. The family drama had reached me again, I tried so hard to let go of it but it chased me back.

Alfred sighed and sat up. "I left my family right after you were born," he started.

"So you are my grandfather?" I asked.

"Yes" he replied. I sucked in a breath and Dad looked at me. I didn't meet his eyes, I looked at his hands and my eyes traveled to his tattoos, Virgo and Pyxis on his left and on his right was Ophiuchus.

Then the strangest thought came to me, all those years I wondered what constellation I could have read the imprints on my wrists to find out what constellation my mother was from but I never did.

"So you knew you had a grand daughter?" I asked quietly.

"Yes"

"Did you know my mother?" I muttered.

"Yes"

"Why did you leave?" I asked quietly.

"I left because of what happened to your mother" he sighed.

"What?" I demanded.

"Don't you know?" he asked in disbelief.

I shook my head. "Antonio, have you told her nothing about her past?" he said to Dad.

"I don't want her to live in the past and go though pain" Dad said.

"What happened to her?" I thought out loud.

"It was murdered" he told "They killed all the Ophiuchus and they would have killed you too"

"Who killed her?" I asked.

Silence. He looked away as if to even think about what happened was killing him.

"Hydras" he said quietly.

That's when I lost it. "What?" I shouted.

"King Jaxon always feared the Ophiuchus would overthrow them and word got out that Ophiuchus can control Hydra and people were already sick of the King so they started the uprising" he finished.

"But why did I live?"

"You lived because you are half Virgo and the let you grow and now he's going to steal Virgo from all three of you to make Hydra stronger" he warned "He already got Ophiuchus"

"He stole stars too" he added "That's why the kingdom has grown weak"

"But if he wants to kill me now," I started "Why does he want me to marry Prince Alec?"

"That's how he plans to kill you" Alfred informed "When Alec is Signed by Virgo and you by Hydra, he's going to strip you of every constellation inside of you"