Chapter 402: 2-2

Is this because she had your blood in her system? Gabriel asked me, thinking the same thing I was at the moment. Our kind after a certain time stop aging but if injured fatally, they died. My mind instantly went to Francesca, dismembered - not possible Chelsea, Gabriel thought but I just eyed Cami, like it's impossible that she's here? We don't know what's going on right now, he said taking my hand, rubbing circles on my palm, as we sat down Nonno, questioned them, "Cosa succede bambino?" Nona reached for MoonStar sitting on the sofa next to her daughter who was practically in Marx's lap. "We were at - at George's. Caelum, Thierry, Ethel and Grace were all there and we were gunned - shots were just everywhere, I - I tried to push - I pushed Cami down but - but when the shots stopped, she was - you were gone Cami," Marx choked out, his arms flexing around Cami. "You had no pulse, you were gone - we were trying to help others - I - for two hours you weren't alive," Marx says his eyes focused on his mate, "I - we put you somewhere safe so that we could tend to you once - but you walked out - she walked out of the room and the Elders..." I shook my head, all my fault, Cami thought. Nonno tossed his head from left to right, a slight crack echoing in the room, as Cami lifted her hand to Marx cheek, "I'm sorry, I - I didn't know... I woke up?" she turned to look at me for confirmation, before her eyes went to her mate again. "I could hear movement and I remembered the shots, the noise and broken glass, the echo's and bangs and I rushed out of the room trying to find Marx to make sure he was okay... I didn't know I had - that I was..." she swallows unable to say the words. Leaning forward, I cleared my throat, "How did you get to Logan?" Marx drug his eyes away from Cami looking at me, "I - I - uhm, I - when I saw Camilla leave the room, Elders Caelum and Ethel were the ones that saw her, I mean they saw her leaving it and I followed their line of sight and saw her. But their eyes it was like - it was predatory, with too many around they didn't approach her right away, but I saw how they looked at her and I knew we were in trouble," Marx didn't know just how right he was, but what I couldn't understand was how? How did she come back? A slight tapping on the door, and when Gabriel left my side to open, Jack entered. "It wasn't relief that she was alive, it wasn't concern, it was as though - it was sinister," Marx whispers and shakes his head trying to explain what he saw but that wasn't needed because I saw in his own mind what the Elders looked like. It was quick, the Elders recovered fairly quickly, hiding the evil in their eyes, but Marx had already seen it, "I already know that they can read our minds... so the instant I saw her alive I ran to Cami, but I controlled my thoughts, I put the best moments I've had with her - that we've shared together - on replay in my mind- replayed the devastation I felt when she-" Inhaling shakily, "I took us back to the room, and I knew I had to get us out of there but all I could remember was that Logan could teleport I had seen him do it when you were missing Chelsea - I - Cami was crying against my chest, I sent Logan a text-" I blinked, "How - the Elder would've seen that?" Was this a trap after all? I sent to Gabriel, who returned to his seat. I don't think so, he didn't sound so sure. "When you get the kind of experience I have Chelsea, you don't need to see to do things, all I could think was how to get us out of there... we were alone for maybe five minutes before a plan successfully came about - even then I controlled my thoughts... I've had years of doing that..." The silence in the room was heavy, sighing Marx continued, "I pulled out my phone, went to the text message sent my location to Logan, honestly I don't think it made much sense I was just - I knew we had to get out of there," I'm not buying this Gabriel... "I don't buy this shit," I blurted out not even waiting for Gabriel to reply, "I mean you hid your thoughts? Sent a text message? All while making sure not to think about those very things, keeping your thoughts private from the Elders?" my tone doubtful as ever, I mean he couldn't be serious. I would have thought Greta, Zeke and maybe even Gabriel's aunt Camilla would have tried to stand to Marx defense, but from Zeke - Marx father - and Nonno I saw them both thinking of times when they did just as Marx was explaining. They didn't know if it was possible to the extent of his explanation, however they knew and had used the same techniques. To them, it was dominant thinking, overloading their brain with memories, moments, giving the Elders white noise while using that layer of protection to do and think hidden. "I know how it sounds but it's the truth," Marx said seriously, his voice firm, and his tone respectful, "It is not something one masters easily, but with severe practice over the years it does become possible and it is something that an Alpha seems to be able to harness." I remained silent; I wasn't buying it. How would I know if he was doing the same thing with me that he had done with the Elders? As of now, they only knew I was alive, but they had no real idea of where we were...  they should go with Wolf and Logan... something just doesn't fit. "I need Jack to take some blood," I stated waving Jack forward. Expecting some resistance from Marx or Camilla I got none. Pushing her shirt up, she pushed her hand out towards Jack when he came to sit in front of her, vacutioners ready. "Chelsea... I'm not the enemy, I mean - I didn't call Logan thinking - I thought - mom... dad?" he turned to his parents, a deep frown on his face, "You - we all thought - that plane... but you're alive?" he said with more hurt than I could possible fathom right now. Thought they died but they've been alive all this time? How could they do this to us?  He thought angrily, images of their funerals and his siblings mourning their beloved parents, the void he felt with his father no longer alive, believed to be dead from the explosion. Yet there was this other side I was reading, Marx and Camilla both were some what relieved to see their parents alive and well, as well as with each other. As the minutes go by and Gabriel and I are watching their interaction I feel Gabriel go stiffer by the moment, each time his thoughts trying to figure out what happened with what information we had been given. We were both on the same page, to me it felt like Marx and Camilla were just pawns in something much larger, led to believe that they had some how gotten away, pulling the wool over the Elders eyes, when in reality nothing could be further from the truth. You think this was about finding us? Gabriel asked. I shook my head, no, Camilla was dead, what I'm not getting is how Marx was able to do what he said... Jack released Cami's arm, Marx sat stiffly eyeing his parents, then turned to Gabriel and I, "What now?" he asked waiting, and the truth was... I didn't know. My mind was in two places right now, wondering if blocking thoughts from the Elders were more about the mate bond than being an Alpha? And was Camilla able to come back because of my blood? And if so... did that mean Francesca - who Jamie gave my blood - was alive as well?