Chapter 39
Jonathan
“Mother?” I say out loud, testing the name on my lips. I look at Jamison who stares at her quizzically. No doubt he’s analyzing her entire face right now. He can see it as well as I can. Her features, so similar to ours, yet more feminine.
“We need to get her to a hospital,” Kaz states, as Xavier and Sebastian help her from the trunk.
Eve shakes her head quickly. “No, no hospitals.”
“But you’re hurt,” Xavier replies, eyeing her up and down. “You should be checked out.”
Eve shakes her head no again.
“I’ll call for an in-home visit,” Sebastian cuts in. “We need to get out of here though before anyone sees us.”
That statement pulls me from my thoughts, causing me to peer over at Lockhart’s dead body. Some luck Jamison and I both have. Shitty adoptive parents and an even shittier biological father. I look back at Eve and watch as my friends help her to the car. We are running on about a twenty-five percent chance that she is just as shitty. Normally, I’m the one with a little more optimism, but fuck, I can’t even bring myself to be hopeful right now. After all, this woman did give us up and disappear.
“What do you think?” I ask Jamison as we ride back separately from everyone else.
He continues driving, his face completely impassive for a good few minutes before deciding to answer me. “I think she is telling the truth. We have some of her features, although she doesn’t look as if she’s aged at all.”
“Where do you think she has been all of this time?”
He looks over at me quickly before facing forward again. “Be careful, brother. Don’t ask questions you might not want answers to.”
I scrunch my eyebrows together in annoyance at my brother. This is what he does. He treats me like I’m fragile. Like I’m so much younger than him. “I do want fucking answers.”
He sighs. “I just don’t want you to get your hopes up. This woman…our mother just happens to show up out of nowhere. It’s too convenient.”
I nod my head and look out the window knowing he is probably right. Aside from our close friends, everyone in our life has always wanted something from us. What’s to say Eve will be any different.