Kaillar (Three Brothers Lodge #3) by Fenris Morris

Author:Fenris, Morris [Fenris, Morris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Changing Culture Publications
Published: 2016-01-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

She had a stricken look on her face, and a hand clutching her chest. “Mom?”

Becca dropped the phone when her mother’s color drained away, and she collapsed to the floor. “Mom!”

She rushed to her mom, and quickly checked for a pulse. She could hear Gracie yelling at her through the phone, and she quickly crawled back to it before returning to her mom. “Gracie! She collapsed.”

“Who?”

“My mom. She was standing in the doorway listening to us talk. She clutched her chest and collapsed. Oh, what do I do?”

“Check for a pulse. Where’s Kai?”

Becca glanced down the hallway, and yelled out for him. He stuck his head out of the door a moment later, and rushed to her side. “I can’t find a pulse! Oh God, I can’t lose her too. Gracie, help me!”

“Whoa! Calm down and check again.”

Kaillar took the phone from her hands, and put it on speakerphone, “Hey Gracie! What do I need to do?”

“See if she has a pulse, and get some medical help on the way.”

Becca was crying, “Mom! You can’t do this. Not now.”

“She has a pulse.”

“Good. Is it strong and steady?”

“It seems to be. Wait! She’s coming around.”

“Mom! Can you hear me?” Becca asked, clasping her mom’s hand as her eyelids fluttered opened. “Don’t move. You passed out. Where do you hurt? Is it your heart?”

Stacie opened her eyes, and then looked at Kaillar before returning her gaze to her daughter. She lifted a hand to Becca’s check, “Becca, what you told your friend on the phone…it’s just not true. Your father…he never meant for you to take his comments the way you did. It nearly broke him when you left. And I never assumed you were at fault for Kevin’s rash actions.”

“Dad said…”

“I know what you heard, but he only meant that Kevin was his only biological child. He always loved you as if you were his own flesh and blood. We never had your last name changed because of the difficulty it would have posed with the courts. I would have had to name your biological father, and I wasn’t willing to do that. I’m sorry if that choice made you feel less loved.”

“I always felt loved. Until Kevin died. It was my fault. If I hadn’t gone off with Dagan, he wouldn’t have attacked me, and Kevin wouldn’t have gone after him.”

“Kevin went out there trying to defend your honor?” her mother asked, her eyes clouding with the memory of his loss. “Somehow, that makes his death better. Knowing that he wasn’t just being a cocky teenager, taking on too much and trying to grow up too fast.”

“No! Kevin would have never attempted those big waves, but he was intent on making Dagan pay for hurting me. I didn’t realize that he’d be able to tell anything had happened. It wasn’t until I got the hospital and saw my reflection in the bathroom mirror that I saw the bruising he must have seen.”

Kaillar picked up Becca’s phone and moved back a few feet, taking it off speakerphone.

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