Chapter 98 The Shift

• Mayi’s POV
• The day we had been preparing for was finally upon us. My heart was pounding with a strange mix of excitement and nervousness. Today, I would witness my little girl embrace her true form — the lioness within her that had been waiting all this time to awaken.
• Yesterday had already been one of the most emotional days of my life. Katty had called me father for the first time. Those words had caught me completely off guard. I had imagined that it would take her years — maybe forever — to see me as her father. Until that moment, she had only ever called me Priest Mayi, a title that, though respectful, always pierced through my heart like a cold blade. I had begged her to stop addressing me that way, and though she eventually agreed to just call me Mayi, it wasn’t the same. But yesterday, hearing that one precious word slip from her lips had broken something open in me. It was as if the heavens had granted me a second chance at fatherhood.