Chapter 404
Zane
“They’re all on the way. I was finally able to get your mother through our mate link.” I paused, looking at my now-adult daughter. “Can you still hear us when we talk through that?”
Stella had helped herself to some cut-up fruit from the fridge in the kitchenette. She paused in pouring
herself some hot water for tea, then nodded.
“I can hear everyone’s thoughts. All the time. Even when I don’t want to. But yours and Abba’s and Daddy’s and Mother’s are indistinct when you’re talking through the bond. I can hear you, but I usually can’t decipher what you’re saying. Which, honestly, I prefer.”
Stella laughed, sounding a little embarrassed. She poured us both mugs of tea and sat at the table. I took the chair across from hers and pulled my mug closer to me, even though I really wanted something much
stronger than tea.
“That must be hard,” I told her. “Hearing thoughts all the time.”
She shrugged and frowned a little bit, and in that expression I saw very clearly the little girl she’d been.
This was going to take me some time to get used to…
and I had to wonder how hard this was for her. One minute to be a child, the next an adult in the span of

mere hours.
Could she hear what I was thinking just then?
“I try not to,” she said aloud. “Sometimes, like just now, what you were thinking was so loud and so strong, and it was about me. I heard it before I could stop myself But mostly, Papa, I try to be polite and not listen in.”
“Has it always been like that for you?”
She nodded after a moment and lifted the mug to her lips. She winced at the heat, then pursed her lips and blew lightly. I could feel the cold breeze from all the way across the table, and I let out a mutter of
surprise.
Again, my daughter looked embarrassed as she set down the mug. “I can make things cold if I need them
to be. Or hot.”
“Stella…” I trailed off, not really even sure what I meant to say. “You are extraordinary. I always knew that,
of course. That you’re so special. But…”
“But now you can see it right in front of you, and you can’t deny it or pretend it away. I understand. I’m sorry it’s such a shock to you, Papa. I didn’t mean for it to be.” Stella paused, tilting her head as though she was listening. “They’re almost here. Then I’ll be able to tell you everything. I’d like to do it when we’re all
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together, if you can be patient enough for that.”
“Of course, I can. If that’s what you need,” I told her.
Stella smiled, but tears gleamed in her eyes. “That’s why I had them call you first, Papa. Because I knew
you’d be able to wait without demanding everything from me right away. Daddy is going to be a little more
difficult, I think.”
We both laughed at that, shaking our heads. She was right. Xander was going to flip his lid when he saw her. That was why I hadn’t simply told him what happened through our mind link.
“He’s got to see it for himself,” I told her. “But he’ll be okay. He’s your father, Stella. He’s going to love you,
no matter what. We all will. Were you worried about that?”
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