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I nod slowly. “We are all okay, and it is done. The chimera are dead.”
A bright smile breaks out on her face. “I knew it! I knew you would do it.”
She steps out onto the porch and wraps her arms around me in a fierce hug that feels good.
I hug her back more carefully, and I feel as if I am finally home.
Not at this house, but in this town.
I know I would never have been accepted the way I was before, but I feel as if things will change now that I am back and the threat to Nightshade has been eliminated.
I let my mother go, and I look her over. “Please, do not tell me you have been up all night?”
She steps back, into the house, and I can tell whatever her answer is going to be, she has most certainly not slept.
“There’s no way I could sleep, Sol,” she tells me. “Not with you out there fighting chimera, and Lita pacing around in here as if she might bolt from the house to help you at any given moment.”
“How is …” I start, before I look past my mother to see my mate come out of the living room.
She lets out a relieved sigh when she sees me.
Then she steps closer and asks hopefully, “You did it?”
I nod, raising my hand to make the same motion.
It is perhaps a redundant move, used along with the nod, but Lita seems to enjoy it.
The smile on her lips only brightens as my mother opens the door wide to allow us entry.
“Or did you want to go to the tower and make the announcement first?” she asks, clearly joking.
“I am in no rush to alert the town,” I assure her.
From what Scratch told me about the children, they did not seem to be afraid of him, only seeing him as an adult, not a reject. That is a good start, but I know at least some of the people here will not be pleased that the rejects are taking over. I do not know if they will believe what has been happening here once it’s been explained. There will likely be people who do not wish to stay in Nightshade’s pack any longer, and we cannot force them to do so, even if the chimera who ran this town made it close to impossible for the people here to function in a real pack.
Last night may have been arduous, but the real work is yet to begin.
“What about the nursery?” Lita asks suddenly.
“I spoke to Fox’s mother last night. She was relieved to see her son alive, and she knew something was wrong with Maria. She will run the nursery until we have alerted the town. Everything will start to change as soon as we do that.”
I wait for my mother to tell Lita in ASL what I’ve just explained.
She does so faster than I expect and Lita smiles brightly when she’s done.
“I should go to work,” my mother says, telling Lita in ASL at the same time.
“No. You should go to bed,” I tell her, knowing she needs to rest.
She shakes her head. “No. Everything should run as normal today. I’ll rest a little more and let the others carry some of my load today, but I need to go to work.”
She turns to Lita and makes some more hand gestures.
Lita talks with her in ASL for a minute, before her pretty face flushes and she glances out at us.
My mother picks her coat off the rack by the door.
I move so she can step out of the house.
