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I’d only spent a couple weeks around him at most.
But shit, hearing Cora’s cry of happiness, excitement, and sorrow when Ember had called
yesterday with the news had been bad enough.
Getting a call from your so-called dead son, though?
Yeah, that had to have been extremely hard.
I was thinking about Cora, and how excited she’d been when we’d driven over here through the
night, when Gabe’s phone rang.
“Hello?” he answered, sounding tired.
His face went from lost to alert in a little over two seconds.
“You’re fucking shitting me.”
Ember turned to study her husband.
I turned to study him, too.
Something had made him go absolutely alert, and what he was hearing wasn’t something good.
Then Gabe smiled.
A smile so fucking wide that it made me have hope.
When he finally hung up, we all waited for good news.
It was good news… just definitely not the good news we’d been hoping for.
“Who was that?” Ember asked the moment that he hung up.
“Tim,” Gabe answered. “He’s been trying to get a hold of Luca for a while, and finally called me
because Luca wasn’t answering. They… shit. Shit, goddamn.”
“What?” Ember raised her voice.
“They’re here. Or almost,” Gabe said as he hurried to the door.
Ember followed, and I was left staring at Cora with a confused look on my face.
“I have no idea what’s going on,” I admitted.
“Me neither,” Cora agreed. “Let’s go look.”
I didn’t know what I was expecting when I saw the passenger side door open, but it definitely
wasn’t the man that stepped out.
“Holy fuck,” Ember breathed, staring dumbfounded. “Malachi.”
Chapter 20
I fucking hate everyone.
