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.

laughs behind me. “Okay, can we take these off? We figured out where

have to lift your legs and step up onto the wall,” Valen says. “Wall?” I ask, shuffling my feet, not wanting to trip. “Shouldn’t be

brute! Or I will jam your legs behind your head

hit something, and I know it’s the wall Valen

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

placing me on

high yet, I wobbled, holding my balance, FRYCM? NL felt the girls wobbling on

garden bed beneath you,” Valen says. I sigh

the girls do. I untangle my hair from it before

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 in awe, and Macey squeezes my hand as we look up at

instead of the

her was a statue of

the bottom, on a pile of

baby in all our arms, and I knew they represented Taylor, Valarian, and Casey and our struggles to get this place up

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

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

Something that made all our hardship so

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

Valen was putting it off for so long. It

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

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