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“Do you have any memories of her?” I asked slowly.
She hesitated. “No. I was a newborn when I was found.”
“Father?”
“Never met him either.”
Her voice was clipped, her face holding no emotion as she answered. But I could hear the pain. I had a feeling she didn’t talk about this often at all.
“Were you born in Project Hope?”
She shook her head. “I was taken there after I was found.”
“Found where?” I forced out, not sure I wanted to know the answer.
She frowned, suspicious of my sudden interest. “A train station.”
Her answer was like a punch in the gut. A train station was where we’d dropped off the baby girl. I studied her, trying to remember what the woman looked like. It was so long ago that I could barely remember the woman’s features.
“What?” Kali snapped, shifting from foot to foot. “Why are you looking at me like that?”
I couldn’t answer her if I tried. My brain was trying to come up with every possible scenario to make this not true. I nearly jerked when there was a sharp knock on my bedroom door. I spun around, still feeling Kali’s stare on me as I opened the door a crack. Pax stood there, a somber frown on his lips.
“You okay?” he asked, his gaze trailing over my face. “You look spooked.”
“I’m fine,” I muttered. “What is it?”
“Jasper is here. He wants a meeting.”
Well, that was just fucking great. As if I needed more to worry about. Jasper was one of my father’s most trusted vampires. Which meant he’d been sent here for a reason. My grip on the door tightened, and I glanced over my shoulder.
“I’ll see you downstairs later,” I told Kali. “Gia is waiting for you.”
She nodded, still looking confused as I stepped out of my sweats and pulled on my jeans before slipping my shirt on. I headed out into the hall after Pax with my mind still stuck on the fact that there was a chance that Kali was the baby I’d rescued. Fuck. More than a chance—it was almost certain.
I thought I’d dragged Kali into the life of vampires. But what if she’d been a part of it all along?
Viggo slapped his hand on my bouncing leg while giving me an odd look. “What in the hell is wrong with you?”
We were sitting in one of the back rooms of Impulse, waiting for Jasper to join us. Pax was sitting on the couch across from me and Viggo, and he was staring at me with a puzzled expression on his face.
“I found a note that Kali has,” I muttered, watching Pax carefully, since he knew Kali was human from the beginning. “From her mother.”
Pax’s jaw ticked. “I knew about it. But I never read it.”
I scoffed. “Anything else about her you haven’t told me?”
“I didn’t see it as important.”
“If you’d read it, then you might be thinking differently.”
Viggo frowned. “It’s important?”
“Maybe.” I blew out a breath and then recited the note from memory.
The twins both went still, and Pax’s jaw dropped in surprise. At least I wasn’t the only one who thought the words were familiar.
Viggo shook his head. “What? You’re thinking she’s somehow involved with that woman? Highly doubtful. That was years ago.”
