Valen POV

My hands rubbed over Everly’s huge bump.Relief flooded me as I finally got her home.he didn’t want to leave Zoe, and I even had to get Doc Darnel in to tell her to go home.

She was supposed to be on bed rest, but I knew she wouldn’t rest at all until she saw with her own eyes that Zoe was alive.

Everly had been quiet most of the trip and I knew she was worried about Ava.

We had scoured the entire city, including the tunnels, but nothing.

“Any news yet?” Everly asked as I leaned down to kiss her belly.

I shake my head, and she pushes my face away, trying to tug the shirt she was wearing down.I growl at her, and she sighs, but I can tell she was too tired to argue with me.

She hated her body.She believed she looked stretched out and ugly, but I loved the stretch marks marking her skin.

I loved each one, loved that she was the vessel that currently carried thirty little fingers, thirty little toes, and three extra beating hearts.

Hearts that were mine to protect and love.

Yet to me, none were more important than hers, the one that beat so they could.

“We’ll find them.The council….” My phone started ringing, cutting my words off.I reach for it.I had told everyone to not use the mind link.

Everly didn’t need the extra stress, and I knew she would find no rest with everyone chatting away in our heads.

Plus, now I had no idea who to trust.

Macey’s name pops up on the screen, and I glance at Everly as she rolls to reach for her water bottle.

Sitting up, I grab it, handing it to her before kissing her head and walking out in case it was about Zoe.

“Hey, everything okay?” 

“Ah, yeah, it’s fine but can you send someone out to the old mine road?” she asked, and I pulled the phone from my ear to make sure it was her.

It was an odd request, and she sounded strange on the phone.

“Why?” 

“I just drove past the hotel and reserve and saw a suspicious car head out that way.Just seemed odd,”

 “Okay, I will send Derrick out that way with Dion.He is filling in tonight,” I tell her.

“Where are you anyway?Everly was expecting you back by now.” 

“Just sorting a few things out at work.I will grab Chinese on the way home for everyone.Saves your dad’s from cooking,” Macey says.

“Okay, can you …” 

to get the prawn

see you soon,” I told

have a whole house full

Everly’s father were with us, Macey and Taylor, plus Casey, and probably Zoe and

before wandering into the kitchen where my father was

I tell

send John grocery shopping,” I tried to picture that, though I am sure he

Everly okay?

has been sitting empty for months and it has more space than here,”

is too much, I can take

the moment, and I know she is worried about

guilty about Claire, Ava,

“Where is he anyway?

in doing puzzles with the kids,” dad says

and we have all done some shit that

don’t hate him.I’m just worried that if something happens to him too that it might be Everly’s

he murmurs, turning the kettle on “Anyway, I was talking to John.He confessed something to me earlier,” Dad tells me,

mother from the city.She didn’t leave because

“What?” Dad nods.

Nixon believe she ran off with his daughter, but she didn’t.He said he had felt guilty about it, but he couldn’t find her once she was gone.He and Nixon had a

there was

“Anything else?” 

phone rings.I pull it from my pocket and see

Dion’s voice that came through the other

“We got him.” 

“Got who?”

as I hear a crash in the

soon,” I tell

you,” he says,

hear the phone exchange

Marcus on the way,” Derrick says

wasn’t what I was expecting “I

eye on Everly,” he said, and I nodded

down the hall, I stuck my head

you come with

him, and he nods, getting up from where he sat on the

okay?” he whispers, following me

and I know Marcus won’t leave her

reason I would be pulling Marcus away from Zoe’s side.I stopped by the hospital on the way to find Zoe asleep and Marcus sitting in a chair, staring

room, Imotioned to him, and he got up from his

Marcus looked exhausted.

hung under his eyes, and his hair looked like he

steps past him

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