Chapter 147

Everly POV

Another Four weeks later. “Keep your eyes closed,” Valen said as I walked blindly with my hands out in front of me when I heard Macey and Zoe’s voices. 

“Is that Zoe and Macey?” I gasped, trying to lift Valen’s blindfold over my eyes. He slaps my hand away, and I reach out blindly before slapping someone.

 “Ouch! That you Everly?” Macey asks. Valen blindfolded me before we left and refused to tell me where he was taking me. 

“Oops, sorry,” I tell her. 

“Wait, are you blindfolded too?” I ask her.

“Yeah, and Tatum sucks with directions. I tripped over the gutter back there,” Macey growls.

” My bloody knee is killing,” she growls. “Kids slow down and away from the paint; it’s still wet!” Marcus screeches just as the sound of their voices reach my ears. A hand grips my arm. 

“Glad I’m not the only blind one around. I was becoming paranoid he walking me off a cliff,” Zoe says, and I know it, her hand on my arm. It slides down to grip my hand and gives me a squeeze just as my hand finds Macey’s.

“Those pricks conspired against us!” Macey hisses. Though with them here, I had a good idea of where I was, which was surprising. Valen said the Hotel wouldn’t be ready.

He had every excuse to keep us away from this place, from a gas leak to plumbing issues and electrical faults. “I swear if they have ruined our hotel?” Zoe hisses, and I chuckle, knowing there would be blood.

Marcus mutters, and Valen laughs behind me. “Okay, can we take these off? We figured out where we are?” Macey

and step up onto the wall,” Valen says. “Wall?” I ask, shuffling my feet, not wanting

“Language, you brute! Or I will jam your legs behind your head and test your flexibility,”

feet hit something, and I know it’s the

the wall,” “Na, too much entertainment watching you all trying to lift ya legs high

my hips, placing me on

my balance, FRYCM? NL felt the girls wobbling on their feet

bed beneath you,” Valen says. I

girls do. I untangle my hair from it before looking up. We all gasped simultaneously at

but that wasn’t what made me gasp; I knew what

statue. Zoe cups her hands over her

had of Valarie was used, but instead

was a

at the bottom, on a pile of tools

a baby in all our arms, and I knew they represented Taylor, Valarian, and Casey and our struggles to

Macey whispers, her arm sliding around my waist as she rests her head on my shoulder, and

at the women who inspired us all. Valarie would have loved it, and I knew she would be watching. Knew we made her proud because

extraordinary. Something that made all our hardship

back, looking at her when she points

off for so long. It would have taken ages to

little details like our name tags on our shirts were included, and I read the tiny little detail on them. Instead of our names,

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