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.

behind me.

you have to lift your legs and step up onto the wall,” Valen says. “Wall?” I ask,

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

My feet hit something, and I

trying to lift ya

my hips, placing me on the

holding my balance, FRYCM? NL felt the

don’t fall, or you’ll ruin the garden bed beneath you,”

can all remove them now,” Marcus calls, and I rip mine off at the same time the girls do. I untangle my

restored to its former glory, but that wasn’t what

that 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 her mouth

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

Retreat’ Beneath her was a

bottom, on a pile of tools

all our arms, and I knew they represented Taylor, Valarian, and Casey and our struggles

around my waist as she rests

it, and

extraordinary. Something that made all

sob, and I rub her back, looking at her when she points toward the massive statue.

off

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

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