Chapter 98: Mia: Callan’s Mother

I heard footsteps behind me. I knew they belonged to my son and his beautiful mate. I couldn’t face Seraphina. Not when so much of her looked like my dear friend, her mother. Why I made it when she didn’t was beyond me. Although more than once I had thought that she had gotten the better end of the stick.

“Mother?” Callan said soothingly as they walked into the hospital room.

I looked down at my lap. Unable to make myself turn around and meet their eyes. I knew they had questions. Questions that I didn’t have the ability to answer

I knew they wouldn’t understand why I couldn’t speak. I heard one of the nurses telling my son that they couldn’t understand why I was mute. But no one had gone through the hell that I had been through. It had been so long that I didn’t know if I could use the mindlink anymore. Kevin or as he liked to be called, “the Reaper,” had kept my abilities stunted by the use of wolfsbane. Boy did he love his wolfsbane.

I tried to open my mouth but the words just