Chapter Fifteen

"My birth mother? But, you told me she was dead! When I wanted to find her. Years ago, you told me you'd found her and that she'd died after giving me up."

"I did. I told you that because we couldn't tell you the truth and we didn't want you looking for her."

"More god damn lies. My whole life has been built on lies!"

"To protect you, Cooper."

"That's such shit! So, now my mother is here. She's alive. The woman who gave me away is here?"

"Sort of. Partially."

"What do you mean sort of? She is either here or she isn't."

"Your mother isn't dead. Your mother is in the in-between, like Arevangi. She is here and not, with us but not a full person. She's downstairs."

"What?"

"Your mother isn't dead. She is just caught in between worlds and she is here, at least in part, in this house," Charlotte explained letting each word sink in.

"But that's not possible. She gave me up and then she died." Cooper said in an attempt at reason.

She'd lived her whole life based on the childish notion that h