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.”

at

my

“They…aren’t. Because they don’t…know about

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

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

nefariously and for my own good. “It was…I didn’t want anyone to find

then I…it took a while to get

slips a stethoscope out of her pocket and slips it around

is a little more

knows about Luca.” My mom and my aunt grin at me again,

it, baby?” my mom asks, leaning forward and taking my hand. “It must be a lot, in

understand. “It’s scary! And they’re both so great, but…” I bite my lip and shake my

things about how of course it’s confusing – it’s bound to be but suddenly

shoulders fill the frame and I

it is,

fill with tears the moment that I realize that it’s

completely overwhelmed with emotion as I try to pull myself up, to move to him,

Because I mean,

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