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.

was a better idea,” Marcus mutters, and Valen laughs behind me.

Valen says. “Wall?” I ask,

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

I know

much entertainment watching you all trying to lift ya legs high enough,”

grips my hips, placing me on the little

balance, FRYCM?

or you’ll ruin the garden bed beneath

mine off at the same time the girls do. I untangle my hair from

former glory, but that wasn’t what made me

the old fountain was gone that sat in the center of the driveway. In its place was a huge statue. Zoe cups her hands over

Valarie was used, but instead of the banner she held in that

Beneath her was a statue

on a pile of tools and

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

Macey whispers, her arm sliding around my waist as she rests her head on my shoulder, and Zoe does the same.

have loved it, and I knew she would be watching. Knew we made her proud because I was proud of what

had built something, something extraordinary. Something that made all our hardship

back, looking at her when she points toward the massive statue. “Look at the shirts,” she says,

Valen was putting it off

were included, and I read the tiny little detail on them. Instead of our names, it had something else.

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