Chapter 1406

From the day Celeste lost Shannon and left the latter to face the world alone, she deemed herself an unworthy mother. She'd missed Shannon's first 15 years of life. There was nothing she could do other than teach Shannon how to protect herself in the shortest time possible. She couldn't even meet the latter in her true appearance. Instead of saying she refused to acknowledge their mother-daughter relationship, she couldn't muster the courage to. "I knew I couldn't stay. If I appeared as your mother, only for you to finally accept me and have to lose me again one day, it would've been too cruel for you." If one had never seen the sun, they could endure the darkness. She refused to be the fleeting light in Shannon's life only to leave with the sting of abandonment once more. She'd thought about sending Shannon back to the Jensens, but Earl's spell had intertwined Shannon's fate with Rachel's over the course of 15 years. To undo the constraints of fate, Shannon would have to break