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I knew we were far away, but this needed to work.
Mom grasped my hand. I reopened my eyes to see tears in hers, threatening to spill over and fall down her cheeks.
She gripped her stomach tighter and shook her head. “He’s gone from this world, isn’t he? I … I wanted to apologize”—she glided her hand across her stomach once more—“for this. It wasn’t my fault. I tried my hardest to—”
“He’s not gone,” I whispered, shaking my head.
“Calder, answer me!”
“What is it, Sina?”Calder said, his voice colder than the last time I had spoken to him.
“Tell me that my father is okay,”I whispered.
Silence.
“Calder!”
“Sina, I … I can’t.”
I froze, opening and closing my mouth over and over, unable to form any words for this. So many thoughts ran through my head that I couldn’t even articulate one of them.
What had happened to Dad? Was it that asshole’s doing? Where could he have gone?
“You need to come home, Sina,”Calder said.“Now.”
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the confession
sina
Gaianand I made it back to the pack house in record time, heading onto the property only a few hours after I had chatted with Calder. He’d refused to tell me what had happened over the mind link. Darius and Thayer stayed behind to wait for the other Paragons to gather their belongings and lead them back to the pack house, but I couldn’t wait any longer. Calder and Dad might’ve been in trouble.
When I leaped onto the back porch, I snapped open the door to a quiet home. It was almost too quiet, too eerily quiet for both Calder and Dad to be here. I stepped into the living room and released Gaian’s hand.
“Calder?” I shouted. “Dad?”
“I’m in here,” Calder said, walking out of his bedroom.
My eyes widened, and I rushed up the stairs toward his room. “You’re healed!”
“Yes, I’m—”
Before he could finish his sentence, I wrapped my arms around his torso and pulled him into a tight embrace. For days, I’d feared that I would never see Calder move again, never mind walk around the house!
“I can’t believe it,” I whispered. “He really healed you fully.”
“Sina,” Calder said, dropping his hand from my body to grab mine. “That’s what—”
“I need to thank him,” I said, my mind racing with hundreds of thoughts about how we could be together in peace once more.
Mom and Dad could meet for the first time again in years, and we could live as a family.
My real family.
“Where is h—”
“Sina,” Calder growled more sternly this time.
