Chapter 0215

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“Wait, what?” I gasp, shocked.

“Oh yeah,” my mom says, her own eyes going far–off as she apparently remembers this long -lost, incredibly important and interesting detail. “I forgot about that…”

“You knew!?” I’m scandalized – mom and dad, they’re so perfect for each other. The idea of dad being mated to someone else…

God, I can’t even imagine it.

“Of course I knew, baby,” mom says, leaning closer and tucking a strand of my bloody hair behind my ear as Cora stands up and begins to fuss with the IV, apparently remembering suddenly that I’m coming off the edge of death and need some fluids. “Dad and I don’t keep secrets. Plus, I knew her.”

“Real piece of work,” Cora murmurs, shaking her head as she reaches for my arm.

“What!?” It’s all I can say in my shock as Cora hooks me up to the IV, helping me get on the mend in her own non–magical way.

“It wasn’t at the same time, like you and your boys,” mom says, turning her head consideringly. “He rejected her and then was single for a long time before he met me. Which, I mean, thank god I don’t think I’d have been able to handle that. I’d have been so jealous, and she’d probably have tried to kill me. I mean, more than she eventually did.”

I stare at

jealousy,” Cora says, sitting down next to me and taking my wrist so she can check my

looking between them. “They…aren’t. Because they don’t…know about each other.”

twin pictures of shock and then delight before they burst into scandalized laughter.

leaning forward to prod me with the tips of her fingers. “How the hell

manage it,” I murmur, not really liking the implication here that I’m doing it nefariously and for my own good. “It was…I didn’t want anyone to find out, at first, that

to get to know them,

nodding as she slips a stethoscope out of her pocket and slips it

little more nefarious, I guess. “Rafe knows

My mom and my aunt grin

forward and taking my hand. “It must be

“It’s scary! And they’re both so great, but…” I bite my lip and shake my head, looking down at my

begins to murmur comforting things about how of course it’s confusing – it’s

the frame and I blink because….

it is,

my eyes fill with tears the moment that

with emotion as I try to pull myself up, to move

Because I mean,

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