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“How exactly was dumping a nearly dead, compelled assassin on my doorstep leaving me out of it?” she asked.
I opened my mouth.
“Or sending a demon to ask to borrow the safe house?” she continued.
I winced.
“Or getting nearly killed and brought to me on death’s door?” She asked. “Leave it to you to get in the middle of something with the demons and the Vampire Queen.”
“I didn’t mean to,” I said.
“I swear, if it weren’t for the favor I owed your mother, I would have turned you away.” She walked over to the counter and turned around with a roll of bandages in her hand.
“Wait, what?” I asked.
She looked up at the sky. “We’re square now, Sabine. You hear me?”
I felt like I’d been punched in the gut. “You knew my mother?”
“She saved my life, I saved yours, we’re even.” Shelly was in front of me now, unwrapping bandages from my neck.
I held my breath as I anticipated the pain from the process. It was a little sore, but nothing compared to when I first woke up. It seemed to be less painful as long as I didn’t move too much. “Tell me more, please. About my mom.”
“You need to learn how to harness your magic,” Shelly said. “You’re not healing as quickly as you could. Something’s blocking you.”
“I’ve always healed quickly. Not full shifter fast, but faster than humans.” It was something I’d attributed to my shifter blood.
“Now that we know you’re part demon, I’m wondering why you didn’t heal faster from the start.” Shelly finished applying the new bandage. “We’ll have to see if we can get those mates of yours to help you.”
“Shelly, what did you know about my mom?” I asked.
“What I told you. She saved my life once. Before you were born.” She threw the old bandages in the trash can.
“Do you know anything about her? What kind of demon she was? What she was like? Anything?” I wish I had pressed my dad harder for information but it always felt like there’d be time to ask questions. I hadn’t expected him to be taken from me so soon.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “We weren’t close.”
I frowned. David had said there was a way to learn more, but we needed something of hers. I straightened. My locket. Where was it? What happened to the stone? Where were my mates?
“Shelly, where are they?” I asked.
“Your ever growing collection of males?” she asked.
“Yeah, them.”
“I’ll get them,” she said. “But you still need your rest. You were nearly dead when they brought you here.”
Shelly wasn’t even out of the room when all three males appeared in the hall. She turned sideways and squeezed past them. “It’s getting too crowded in there.”
Xander was the first to enter the room. He stopped in front of me, his expression difficult to read. It wasn’t concern, but that was the closest I could guess. His emotions were a tumbling mess and once David and Elias closed in, it was impossible to feel the differences between them. All three males seemed to tangle into one mess of fear, relief, anger, sadness, and regret.
“What happened?” I asked.
“You’re alive,” Elias said.
“At what cost?” I was putting their emotions and their expressions together. There wasn’t good news coming.
“We had to give up the stone,” Elias said.
