Terraway Books 7-8 Bundle by Mary E. Twomey

Author:Mary E. Twomey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampires and werewolves, shifter romance paranormal romance, young adult fantasy fiction myths and fairy tales female heroine, coming of age suspense, french folklore, love urban fantasy romance for teens paranormal romance
Publisher: Mary E. Twomey
Published: 2017-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

Forty-Eight.

Anastasia Grace

I never learned the house doctor’s name. Everything about the rest of that day turned to a blur of white noise in my ears. Though I was the only one who understood the medical terminology for what had happened, everyone understood the finality of the grave pronouncement.

I cast around for Ollie, but he’d left half an hour ago to sit with Allie, who was in a different wing of the hospital. Life was normal for him right now; he didn’t know. I wanted him to stay in that bubble as long as possible.

Danny was taken into a room, shouting at the doctor and demanding they try harder. He cursed everyone and raged that they should’ve done more, that he had to see her because they were wrong. He’d given up everything so Mariang would be safe. They were surely wrong if they were saying she was dead.

Boston, Graham and Von wrestled with their brother in the hospital room, pulling in small doses until Danny stopped throwing punches at everything and everyone who had robbed him of the one beauty in his life. They lowered him to a chair, Boston and Graham sobbing uncontrollably as they tried to keep Danny upright. They tried gently to make him understand that sometimes life was death, and there was nothing to be done about it now.

The doctor was patient with our mess as he explained the other shoe that had to drop. “We weren’t able to save Mariang, but we were able to deliver the baby. Your daughter’s healthy and very much alive.”

Danny had been blissed not completely out, but enough to where he couldn’t comprehend what the doctor was saying, let alone get up to do anything about it. He stared listlessly ahead of him, unblinking as his jaw went slack and tears streamed down his red and forlorn face.

When the doctor realized he would get nowhere with Danny, he turned to me. “You’re her sister? That’s what I have here on her forms.”

“Um, yes. I’m her sister.” None of it felt real. It wasn’t possible that Mariang was dead. It wasn’t even Terraway that killed her.

I didn’t pay attention to my steps as I followed the doctor down a few hallways, tears blurring my vision and making my feet stumble. Halfway there, I keeled over and let out a gut-wrenching cry, leaning on the doctor who supported my weight and had the decency to hold me while I wept in the stranger’s arms. He led me slowly to the private room Mariang had been laboring in. Then he sat me in a rocking chair as I cried, unable to hear anything he was saying.

It wasn’t until a pink blanket was placed in my arms that I realized the world was still turning, though it felt like with all the horror, it should’ve stopped long ago. Staring up at me was a squawking, round-faced angel. She had Mariang’s hair, Danny’s ears, Mariang’s eyes and Danny’s lips.

I don’t know how I saw her that first time with so many tears marring my vision, but somehow I found her in the haze.

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