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Chapter 16.
Michael.
I staggered over to my mother who was now standing on the porch, staring down on the pile of ashes that had been my father.
“Mother... are you okay?” I grabbed for her and she turned to look at me.
For the first time in decades, shereallylooked at me. Her blue eyes focused and she smiled, the pallor draining out of her cheeks as though someone had pulled the plug on her lethargy.
“Michael?” She asked, as though she hadn’t seen me in forever either.
“Yes. Mother. It’s me.” Tears were burning in my eyes. Was her sickness gone? “How are you feeling?”
“I’m feeling... amazing.” She glared down at the pile of ash. “He’s finally gone. And I’m free.”
I pulled her into me, hugging her tight. “Mother, I am so sorry.” Had she been suffering all this time?
“Shh, it’s not your fault.” She crooned, hugging me back in a way she never had. Tight. Not in my memory, anyway. “None of this was your fault.”
I pulled back to look at her. “Was it always him?” I’d wondered, of course. But my father’s story had always been seamless.
She nodded. “Always.”
Something must have caught her attention because she looked up at the sky, frowning at the grey smoke. “We need to help them, Michael.”
“Do you have much power left, Mother?” Surely after being in an almost comatose state for twenty years she’d be drained of her magic?
She picked up her hand and moved her fingers, silver crackles of light shining through. “I was always more powerful than your father, something he despised me for.”
She walked to the edge of the deck and threw her hands in the air, calling to the smoke and taking it into herself. Draining the sky of the poison.
Wow.
My gaze fell on my pregnant wife, held tenderly in the arms of Xander. She was passed out, and not moving at all.
I ran to them and dropped to my knees. “Oh my god. Is she okay?”
Xander glared at me, his face as ghostly white as my mother’s had been. “I don’t know. Why didn’t you leave with her when you had the chance?”
“I did.” I said, pressing my fingers to her throat to check her pulse. “She wouldn’t leave without you guys, and I wasn’t going to be the reason you died either. Get fucked. We’re a family.”
Her pulse beat fast and strong beneath my fingers. “She’s alive. I think she just passed out. Let’s get her into the house.”
Xander stood with her in his arms and walked up the steps and into the cottage.
Mom watched them go, grinning a little strangely. “Um... wolf shifters I assume? Are they always so naked?”
I laughed, because how could I not? My father was dead but I had my mother back. She’d cleared up the sky and although I wanted to do more for the pack, my legs weren’t going to hold me much longer.
“Let’s go sit for a minute, Mom.” I took her arm and escorted her into our cottage, collapsing on the couch. “Oh my god, I can’t believe we’re all still alive.”
