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1 push open the door of the bookshop, the bell announcing my arrival and my mum lifts her head from the book. she was lost in.
“Josie, how lovely to see you,” she smiles warmly, standing from her seat. I introduce her to Axel and Luke, telling her they are my college friends and she makes a round of coffee for them. Frank comes down to sit with us for a while before asking Deacon to talk privately and the two of them head upstairs to his apartment.
“I have some news,” I announce once she has caught me up on the town gossip and given us her opinion on the Greys revelation. Which is surprisingly positive. She looks at me expectently and I hand her one of the pictures of Little Bean.
“Oh this is wonderful news, congratulations, Dear,” she beams, pretending she had no idea.
“It was quite a shock but I’m excited, and a little scared,” admit.
“You are going to be a wonderful mother. Your parents would be so proud of you,” she smiles.
“Thank you, Penny, I hope they would be,” I choke up. I had told her I’d lost my parents a few years ago, she hadn’t asked for any further explaination and I hadn’t offered her it. She had just accepted my story and moved on without trying to pry.
“We need to talk,” Mason says in the mind link and I panic for a split second. Does he somehow know about the little bean?
“Is it urgent?” Deacon asks.
“Not urgent, but important,” Mason says..
“Okay, give us a few minutes, we are with my mum,” I respond to him, shutting down the mind link to talk to my
mum.
“I’m sorry, I’m suddenly feeling a little sick,” I lie.
“Oh that’s a shame, but perfectly understandable in your condition,” Mum smiles sympathetically.
I get to my feet as Deacon comes back into the main shop followed by Frank.
“Perfect timing, Josie is feeling unwell. I think she needs to go home a rest,” Luke says.
We say
your goodbyes and promise to return soon. It’s at this point I realise the huge mistake I have made. I won’t be able to visit very much once this baby starts showing. She will certainly notice it’s growing faster than it should. My heart sinks. I had been so excited to share this with her that I hadn’t thought of the long–term logistics.
We leave through the front of the bookshop, circling around it where Frank waits to let us in through the back door to sneak upstairs to his apartment so we can port out unseen.
“We are back home now. What’s up?” I ask Mason as I fight off the nausea from porting.
“We met with the elders yesterday. The real ones, not the representatives you met with. You were all sleeping by the time we got done. They may have a way to fix the portals,” Mason tells us and my heart skips a beat.
“How? If they have a way then why haven’t they used it already?” Deacon demands with a pulse of anger.
“Because it would most likely come at a great cost to them. Mason says.
“I don’t think any cost is too much given the situation,” Deacon snaps.
“Whilst I almost agree. I also don’t. They asked me if we would be willing to let Josie kill herself, and in turn, the
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rest of us to fix the portals. I obviously said no. They said that is the price they would have to pay. Their bond is frail, she is almost 130 years old. If she was to expel that amount of power in her weakened state she likely wouldn’t survive it.” Mason explains.
“Are you saying they are Spark bonded?” Luke asks.
“Yes, but they asked that we don’t share that information With anyone else,” Theo responds.
“I’m not trying to be disrespectful when I say this, but they ve had their time. Now it’s our turn and we need their help to do what we were brought back here to do, besides, low long do they really have left? I would like to think that if this was us 100 years from now, we’d make the sacrifice as our last act as the Spark bond in this life cycle,” I say. All the guys go quiet as they process my words.
N.O Darling Author
I wasn’t going to upload a chapter today as I haven’t had a single day off since the 29th of September and it’s my birthday today. Then I decided not to leave my readers waiting, so here it is. It’s just one today but it’s a longer one than usual.
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