Chapter 0058
“Because you were… occupied when he called. Your mum is fine and is making good progress. Please try to calm down,” he holds out his hands as if trying to tame a wild animal.
“Great! So I didn’t receive an update on my mum because was busy getting fucked?” I hiss, anger and disgust course through me. How could I be so selfish?
“Josic, listen to me. Your heat makes you feel all your emotions way more intensely. What you are feeling now is not as bad as you think, take a breath and try to control your power,” Luke speaks softly, like I’m a toddler he’s trying to reason with..
“No,” I snap. “I want to see my mum, I miss her,”
“And you will see her soon, but now is not a good time for you or her. Your eyes are glowing with untamed power and a wave of heat could hit you any minute. It’s not going to help your murn to see you this way,” Luke reasons. He’s right. My mum already thinks I’m possessed, seeing me like this will only make her worse. I can’t be around her. Then it dawns on me.
“She’s not crazy is she?” I gasp, “I did this to her! She sensed my powers manifesting, didn’t she? She saw my
eyes
flash blue like all of yours do and thought I was possessed. She tried to tell someone, to get me help, and they locked her up for it. This is all my fault,” Sadness grips my heart. I’m never going to get my mum back, even if they fix her, one flash of my eyes and she will never believe I’m the little girl that she raised. A sob escapes me my knees feel weak under the weight of what I’ve done. Axel’s strong arms wrap around me, holding me up.
“No, you didn’t do this to her, your father did,” Mason growls.
and
“How can you say that? He has nothing to do with this, he died years ago,” I defend, his dad might be despicable but mine wasn’t.
“Because he had to have been a Grey, two humans can’t produce a Grey, Josie. He knew the consequences of breeding with a human, he knew what it would do to your mother, and he did it anyway. Then he left you both vulnerable by leaving you there with her, the least he could have done was bring you here to be raised with your} own people,” Mason’s harsh tone reflects just how much disdain he has for my father, a man he never met.
“You’re wrong, he was a good man. He loved us,” I shake my head, I refuse to believe my dad would ever do anything that could hurt us. I push out of Axel’s arms and rip open one of the boxes he’d brought in for me. I dig through it until my hand lands on the cold metal frame. Then I pull out the small framed photo of my dad. He holds me on his knee, my stark blue eyes are in complete contrast to his warm brown ones. “Look, this is my dad, he can’t be a Grey, he had brown eyes,”
Theo takes the photo from me, “shit,” he curses before passing it to Luke, who frowns at it before handing it to Mason.
“I need to make a phone call,” Mason says and walks out of the room, taking the picture with him. Does he really think I’m not going to listen in on that conversation? I take one step to follow Mason when Axel grips me around the waist and Luke moves to stand between me and the door making their objections on this clear. Fine, if they want a fight then game on. 1
