I shook my head. “No. Mom is performing bizarre. I believe she’s proper.”

I shoved the bank card between the doorjamb and the deal with, wiggling it till it slipped beneath the lock and opened.

The scent of Mom’s fragrance filtered out and warmed me. I’d at all times cherished her scent. To assume I used to be going towards all of my elevating. All of my emotions for my mom damage me deeply.

Why would she do that? Why would she lie?

I turned on the sunshine. The master suite was massive, however my mom was a minimalist. There have been decorations however no junk mendacity round. No lotions on her bedside desk. Solely a lamp.

Fern regarded across the room. “I can’t think about her hiding a spindle in right here.”

I kicked open the closet door and regarded into the darkness. Their toilet was empty as effectively. Sliding my fingers into my hair, I sighed closely and met Fern of their room.

She held two small packets in her hand. “What are these?”

I glanced at them. “Seeds for her backyard …”

My whole physique stilled. Her backyard. She’d by no means been a inexperienced thumb rising up and abruptly she took up a backyard?

I’d thought it was as a result of I left, and she or he was lonely. Perhaps it wasn’t any of these issues. Perhaps she buried it.

I ran towards the again door and flung the door open. Birds and wildlife greeted me as I ran barefoot over the dew-soaked grass.

Fern shouted after me, however I couldn’t cease myself. I raced towards her backyard and lowered myself to my knees. I’d sat right here along with her and spilled my deepest needs of wanting a powerful man.

Whereas she doubtlessly hid the article that had me kidnapped into one other realm. I pulled up her flowers and started to dig with my naked fingers.

“Josephine,” Fern mentioned. “You’re scaring me. What are you doing?” she requested.

Her tangled blonde hair had fallen into her face, and she or he regarded extra like a faerie than ever. She regarded youthful. Harmless. I used to be unhappy she’d been tossed into the life she had.

“Assist me,” I mentioned.

She bent down beside me and started to dig. “You assume your mom hid the spindle in right here?”

I nodded, digging quicker, hitting rocks and dust caking beneath my nails. I solely dug tougher. I wasn’t certain how lengthy they’d be gone for. An hour? Two?

What if it wasn’t—

I finished when my fingers brushed one thing laborious. Fern stopped beside me and glanced at me with large blue eyes. “You discover one thing?”

I swallowed as I moved extra dust round and noticed the tip of one thing golden. There it was. The spindle. Like a madwoman, I started to dig tougher till my arms grew numb.

The concern of Mom exhibiting up lingered over me like a ghostly shadow. Fern and I dug till all the prime was seen.

She ran her fingers alongside the sleek gold and gasped. “I can’t consider you discovered it,” she whispered. “We’re gonna save Kellan. I am unable to consider it!”

I wrapped my fingers across the prime and started to drag, whereas Fern dug deeper round it, loosening the dust.

I pulled till it was laying on prime of me, and the I stared on the cloudy blue sky. Fun slipped from me. We’d discovered it. We discovered the spindle.

Fern helped me stand it up. Then actuality smacked me within the face.

“She’s going to know we dug up her backyard. Even when we attempt to repair it, she’ll know. She’s already suspicious. We have now to depart. Assist me transfer this.”

Fern grabbed one finish, and I grabbed the opposite. We walked it over to the again door, and I raced towards the backyard. Fern helped me put the soil again in and considerably prepare the flowers.

It will purchase us time.

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