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I felt bad for leaving the kids the way that we did. It was only seven thirty in the evening, and they were nowhere ready for bed yet, but Joaquin and I needed to go to the meeting with the others. This was important. This might be a matter of life or death to them all. And if it meant that I could keep them safe that much longer, then I would do whatever it took. I would give my life for my children. I wouldn’t even bat an eye. If that was what it took to protect my babies, then I would do it. I would also kill for them. If anyone ever dared to think about hurting my children, then I would stop them, killing them if I had to. And that motherly love wasn’t just for my offspring, it went for my pack, my kingdom, all of my people. I would do what it took to protect them all. And that was why these recent events were so hard on me.
“Mommy, will you be here in the morning?” Zaley asked me as I moved to leave her room. “Or will you be gone again?”
“I will be here sweetheart. I promise that I will be.”
“Can we have breakfast together?” Zayden asked me, preparing to go to his own room as well.
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“Yes baby, we can have breakfast together. I wouldn’t miss it for anything in the world.”
“Will you drive us to school in the morning?” Zachary asked, holding onto my right hand tightly.
“Yes, honey, I will drive you to school in the morning. Mommy has missed so much already, and I want to be here for you now.”
“But the bad stuff isn’t over yet, is it Mommy?” Zander asked me. “You will still be busy, and you might have to leave again.”
“I might, bubby. But I will try to be here from now on. Mommy doesn’t want to be away from you at all. I want to be home. I want to see you every single day. It’s just that mommy has so many people counting on her.”
“We know, Mommy.” Zaley hugged me tightly. “Mommy is the queen and that means that she is important.” She wasn’t upset, she was just stating a fact.
That’s right, honey. Mommy has to help a lot of people that count on her. But you’re the most important to me. All of you. And I love you all so much.”
“We love you too, Mommy.” Zaley squeezed tighter.
“We love you, Mommy.” Zachary hugged me from the side.
“We love you, Mommy.” Zayden stood on the bed behind me and hugged me around the neck.
“We love you, Mommy.” Zander added as he hugged my other side.
Leaving them just about broke me, but I had to. I knew that they understood why I was so busy, but that didn’t mean that it wasn’t hard on them, and me. I love my babies. All of my babies.
I opened the various doors at about a quarter to eight, just like I told the others that I would. They started to come through almost all at the same time. The doors were opened in the hall just outside of my office so that they could head in and find their seats with the others. My office was very large, thankfully. And I had a lot of places for the others to sit. Joaquin and I were going to be at my desk, facing the crowd of friends and family as we started to explain what was going on.
Everyone was on time for the meeting. Not a single person was late getting there or caused a delay. Right at eight that evening Joaquin and I walked into the room and saw the others, their eyes all trained on me as I walked across the room to my chair. The whole room was silent. I could barely even hear them breathing as they all watched me.
“Welcome, everyone. And thank you for coming in on such short notice. I appreciate that you have understood the gravity of the situation and the need for us to hurry on all of this.” I looked at each of them, making eye contact as I went through the group before me.
“We understand that you wouldn’t call us all in unless it was something truly important, Riviana. We’re here to help in any way that you need us to.” Athair m貌r smiled at me, but the look was filled with heartache. His blue eyes were filled with determination and trust.
“Thank you, Valerian.” Joaquin nodded at him. “And as you said, this is truly something very important. There has been a dev-.” Joaquin was starting to explain things to the group when my phone rang.
“What the hell?” I looked at it. I had it set to 鈥榙o not disturb’. And that meant that only a few select people were able to get through. They had to be on the list so to speak. “Why is Shawn calling me all of a sudden?” I looked up at Joaquin. “You don’t think that something happened in Germany, do you?”
“Answer it.” Joaquin told me and then looked at the others. “Give us a minute.”
“Yeah.”
“No problem.”
“What’s wrong with my brother?” Support from most of the group, and concern from Shane was what came when Joaquin told them that. I barely paid attention to it though, since I was walking to the corner of the room so that I could have a semblance of privacy for the call.
“Shawn? What’s wrong? Did something happen?”
“Riviana, we have some news. We need to come back right away.” There was a note of urgency in Shawn’s voice as he spoke.
“We just started a meeting with the others. We’re going to discuss what we learned after coming back to the states.” I explained to him.
“Good. Open a door. We can hear that information and then we can tell you all about what we found here.” He truly was in a hurry to come back.
“Alright. I am getting the door prepared now.” I was already calling my magic to me and making it appear on my side. “Where are you at?”
“We are in Dietrich’s office here in Germany. In the Castle. You’ve been in it before.” I remembered the room that he was talking about. I was there just recently when we were in Germany. It was just a couple of days ago, but it felt so much longer.
“Alright. It will be there in just a moment. Hurry through so that we can get the meeting started.” I knew that I didn’t need to rush him, but I did it anyway.
“Yeah, we will. I see the door starting to appear. We will be on your side in a moment.” With that he hung up. And within thirty seconds the two of them were walking through the door here on my side of the magic.
“Welcome home.” I smiled at them. “I hope you had a productive time of things.”
“Oh, we did. A very productive time.” Shawn stepped toward me. “I will let you explain what you know and then I will explain what it is that Dietrich and I found. Is that alright?”
“Yeah, that’s fine. After all, you need to hear all of this too, right?”