Chapter 250

I know that my two sisters are probably broken down; my parents are suffering as well. We have family back home, but none of those people know how to support Oakley and ben in this way. She scribbled, it won’t be forever, they plan on training ben and Oakley AND- Julia sighed heavily, using her pen to point outside at Oakley and Ben, Ben is happy if Oakley is happy and she is, I don’t think I’ve seen that girl smile like she is now since Norine went away. She deserves this chance to get herself to a better place, Chelsea said if we go back they are going to remove the information we’ve been given. We’ve been living with nearly ten years of no answers grant! Ten years of watching Oakley just fall apart; do you really want to bring her back to the girl with no light in her eyes? The private investigator found nothing grant, these people can come back and do that to Oakley… to Ben… we’d be back in the dark.  She wrote furiously, the amount of force she was using, the words deep, the paper dented. BUT WORSE of all… we didn’t know the half of what Oakley is dealing with Grant! She will go back to thinking she’s crazy, hearing voices, with Pat pushing Sarah and Amelia in her face, she’ll go back to hearing whispers about her family dealing with it all alone. I’m not saying that this is a quick fix to her, she still has things to work on, the poor girl doesn’t see how special she is Grant, how much she’s loved – her eyes back on me the pen down for a minute, I nod closing my eyes, thinking, my mind racing, I didn’t even – our family, everyone would be under the impression that we died. Julia tapped the pen on the counter, snapping my eyes open I read what she wrote next, Chelsea may seem like a stranger to us, to Ben, but Oakley… I think she’s had that girl, the one she had never met in her heart all this time, it’s been six years and she still calls Amelia, Amelia. She NEVER once called Amelia her sister, or stepsister, nothing; Grant, but she just claimed Chelsea,  Julia pushes the paper towards me before reaching over and pulling it back to continue. What if we go back, and Oakley runs away seeking out the people Norine mentioned and runs into problems there? Or Ben shifts out in anger? Injuring some innocent person – putting my palms up, I had read enough; Julia wasn’t writing anything that I wasn’t already thinking. I hated the situation as it was, I wasn’t a father, but I knew Pat was suffering, I knew guilt would be eating him alive, but going back to the life we had with no answers, that seemed like there would be more hurt there, on that path. I pulled my wife into my arms, sighing I rest my forehead against hers, “We’re staying…” she nodded, giving me a small shy smile, her eyes bright, kissing me softly, she went back to the stove, seasoning the ground beef, making her special meatballs, looking pensive before she just threw her head back in laughter as she molded one of the balls. Not a soft laugh, or tiny giggle, loud, and she even dropped the meatball she was molding. “What?” I asked smiling, loving her laugh but wondering what brought it about. She shook her head, “I – I was thinking about her offer, helping us conceive,” she said watching my face, I nodded, “well… it’s just that did you see how she healed Oak’s wrist…” I could see the mirth in her eyes but I didn’t understand. Until she picked the meatball back up, “Chelsea’s, she may have to touch your junk Grant…” my face scrunched up as I thought about it, oh. “Awkward,” Julia mumbled under her breathe, I just shook my head, taking the piece of paper we used and lighting it on fire, letting it burn in the sink, we were staying. . . Gabriel POV I left Chelsea in bed, exhausted, but at ease, to check on Ava, as well as the rest of the people here. Her room right across ours, with her even breathing I could tell Ava was already fast asleep, but when i poked my head inside I was not all too surprised to see a large wolf in the room, on the floor. The wolf, lifts his head, she knows she’s in a new place, asked me to stay Casey thought and because Chelsea and I completed the mate bond, I could hear him now, Chelsea is my Luna. Ours,Max quickly corrected. “Thanks,” I acknowledge Casey before leaving, checking the house, locking up I returned back to our room, but as I approached our bed I was expecting to find Chelsea fast asleep. However she wasn’t on our bed. Listening out towards the bathroom, I hear nothing, not even her heartbeat. Chelsea?I tried - not yet fully worried but slightly agitated - over the link, waiting for a response, but none came Leaving our room I start exploring different areas, the kitchen, then our separate offices, the game room, theater, living room, libraries, and finally the panic sets in. I return to the kitchen, alert, I can’t find Chelsea I tell everyone in the house, she isn’t in the house I’ve looked everywhere, I warn, Max, whining in my head. Soon enough Jack, Casey, Mikael, Violet, Lukas, Victor, Nonno, Greta, and Remy are all in the kitchen with me, confusion on their faces.