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.

and Valen laughs behind me. “Okay, can we take these off?

“Wall?” I ask, shuffling my feet,

at lifting ya legs around ya ears,” Tatum snickers, and she growls. “Language, you brute! Or I will jam your legs behind your head and test your flexibility,” she growls

hit something, and I know

couldn’t have walked around the wall,” “Na, too much entertainment watching you all trying to lift

placing

very high yet, I wobbled, holding my balance, FRYCM?

garden bed beneath you,” Valen says. I

I rip mine off at the same time the girls do. I untangle my hair from it before looking up. We all gasped simultaneously at the sight before

was restored to its former glory, but that wasn’t what made me gasp; I knew

gone that sat in the center of the driveway. In its place was a huge statue. Zoe cups her hands over her mouth in awe, and Macey squeezes my hand as we look up at ourselves. The statue was

but instead

Beneath her was a statue of Macey, Me, and

bottom, on a pile of tools and

and I knew they represented Taylor,

around my waist as she rests her head on my shoulder, and Zoe

inspired us all. Valarie would have loved it, and I knew

something extraordinary. Something that

sob, and I rub her back, looking at her when she points

was putting it off for so

were included, and I read the tiny little detail on them. Instead of our names, it had something else. ‘Watch me! “We watched,” Tatum

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