Dark Angel (Casteel 2)

My own true love,

You found me in the wind last night, just

sitting, just trying to figure out what my life is all

about.

We can't marry. And yet last night I took you

and did my best to make you conceive. Forgive me for

my selfishness. Go to Jillian. She'll tell you the truth.

Make her tell you. She will if you push her hard

enough, and call her Grandmother, and force her to

abandon her disguise.

The love I have for you is the best thing that

has ever happened to me. I thank you for loving and

giving me so much, even knowing all my weaknesses.

And my greatest flaw has been my overwhelming

love and devotion to my brother. 1 have been blind,

deliberately blind.

Jillian came and told me everything. To save

you I have to accept what could have saved your

mother. For Jillian had to admit that Tony was wild

with his infatuation to possess your mother. I know

now, after you have goaded me into thinking

backward, that she hated him, and he was the one she

ran from. Heaven, you are Tony's daughter, and my

own niece!

I'm going away until I can learn to live without

you. Even if you weren't Tony's daughter, and my

niece, I'd ruin your life. 1 don't know how to live

complacently and accept each day as it comes. I have

to make every day meaningful and important, for each

day I live seems always the last one.