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

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

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

I know it’s

couldn’t have walked around the wall,” “Na, too much entertainment watching you all trying to lift ya legs high enough,” Marcus laughs. All three of them laugh behind us, earning

hips, placing me on the

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

garden bed beneath you,”

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

former glory, but that wasn’t what made me

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 ourselves. The statue was

stood up the top, and a photo I had of Valarie was used, but instead of the banner she held in that photo, she held

Beneath her was a statue of

bottom, on a pile

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

sliding around my waist as she rests her

I stared up at the women who inspired us all. Valarie would have loved it, and I knew she

had built something, something extraordinary. Something that

snorts, choking on a sob, and I rub her back, looking at her when she points toward the massive statue. “Look at the shirts,” she says, pointing at our

it off for so long. It

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

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