Page 225 of Shifting Hearts 1
Gabby grabbed my face, dry my tears, my blood soaking tears. “Don’t cry, you know it’s not a beautiful look when a vampire cries. They are fine.”
“Your children are fine?” Em asked, sounding as excited as I am.
“Em,” Mel’s voice said. “I think you and Ryan needs to come in.”
“No, they stay!” Gabby said.
“Gabby, you are not part of this pack,” Mel spoke coldly.
“I say they stay.”
“Gabby?” I asked.
She looked at me. “I want you to meet Siskia and Hunter, Morgan.”
She looked at Em. “Why are you looking at me?”
Gabby shook her head and sniffed. “Beautiful if you think about it. Turns out your best friend is not only your best friend, but she’s your mother, Em.”
“Excuse me,” she asked.
“No, no. I would’ve have known.”
“He change their names after you died,” Gabby answered.
“What?” I asked.
“What is going on here?” Ryan asked.
“Gabriella!” Jace roared as he appeared and he froze when he saw me.
“I told you, and you never wanted to listen,” Gabby spoke.
“No, I would not have remembered her,” Jace spoke as he kept staring at me.
“I’m going to be sick.” I turned around and rushed back to the cottage.
I barely made it to the toilet. A few seconds later, Gabby was there. She was always fucking here.
I hurled again. It was just bile of nothing.
“Easy, easy. You are okay.”
“I’m not okay, stop fucking saying that!” I screamed. I was going to lose it. “How, how the fuck do you remember me!”
She got up and closed the bathroom door, then came back and sat close to me. “Because I know you. There was no way you would leave them. Not him and not them. What happened?”
I shook my head as tears wanted to prick. “I can’t stay. I’m not an asset. I’m the opposite.”
“Hey, you want to go. We go.”
“No, you don’t understand. Are these walls…” I had to make sure.
“Sound proof, you know it’s sound proof.”
“No, I don’t. I hear through all of them.” I laid my head back, knees brought to my chest. How the fuck was this possible?
“They won’t hear you. You can talk freely.”
