It was as if all of us needed this to be over. We had been pretending that what occurred hadn’t. Even with the strain of my mom coming again for vengeance or Deidamia coming to search out my mom, I felt lighter to be residence.

This felt like residence.

Kellan and I had been new, nevertheless it felt proper.

Ernest and Fern took the fold-out sofa, leaving Kellan and I the bed room. It felt good to slide beneath his covers, together with his canine sleeping beneath the mattress and the moon shining via his window.

He snaked his arm round me and pulled me again towards his physique.

Silence greeted us. “What’s going to occur?” I requested him. “Even when my mom doesn’t come again for vengeance, it’ll by no means be the identical. What if she leaves and by no means comes again? I’ll be motherless.”

Kellan stroked his fingertips towards my pores and skin. “Let’s not give it some thought tonight. All of us want a superb evening’s sleep.”

I nodded, although it was exhausting not to consider it. It hung over me like an umbrella or an premature loss of life.

Minutes ticked by, and I fell to sleep in Kellan’s arms. It wasn’t till I heard the pecking on the glass that I sat up in mattress.

Kellan groaned beside me however didn’t transfer. My gaze shifted round his room, adjusting to the sunshine whereas making an attempt to see the reason for the noise.

George would have heard one thing, wouldn’t he?

I swallowed the dryness from my throat and swung my toes towards the ground. George’s growl startled me. I gasped loudly as he emerged and walked towards the window.

That’s after I noticed my mom staring again at me. She appeared like Deidamia. She wasn’t the blonde that baked cookies. She was Deidamia’s sister. The girl I didn’t know.

She curled her finger at me, making my coronary heart thump loudly towards my ribcage. Kellan’s callused palm wrapped round my higher arm, and he sat up behind me.

“She’s right here,” I whispered.

Kellan stood on the opposite facet of the mattress in his underwear. His gaze settled on my mom via the glass. “Let’s go see her, then.”

Chapter Thirty-9

Kellan

Josephine stood quietly between the mattress and the window, watching her mom. Her acquainted inexperienced eyes made my pores and skin crawl. I slipped into my denims and t-shirt, whereas Josephine continued to glare.

“Josephine,” I whispered.

She turned towards me with an ashen face. “I don’t wish to go on the market.”

I walked over and cupped my arms round her face. There was a lot concern in her eyes that it wrecked me inside. I couldn’t think about waking up and realizing that your mom is evil and never who she says she was.

“If we don’t, she’ll simply come inside, Josephine. She’s not going to go away. We’ll exit collectively and determine this out.”

She closed her eyes, and a tear slipped down her cheek.

“Don’t cry,” I whispered. “I gained’t let her take you.”

I had no thought how I might cease her. If she was Deidamia’s sister, then her powers and her origins may very well be limitless. There was no method to determine it out with out confronting her.

Josephine wiped her cheek and took a deep breath. “Okay,” she whispered.

I appeared down at her lengthy T-shirt and grabbed a pair of my sweats from a close-by chest of drawers. “Put these on.”

She slid into my sweats and tied the band tightly to maintain them up. “Are you prepared?” I requested.

Josephine nodded swiftly and adopted me down the hallway. Fern and Ernest had been each asleep on the sofa, the moonlight brightening the room sufficient to see their sleeping faces.

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