Chapter 12

• Calum cleared the trees and then froze. Standing with Journee and Deva ten feet from him was someone that he thought he’d never see again. She was older, but there was no mistaking that the woman in the worn, raggedy clothes was his mother. “Mom.” He took one step forward. He was barely able to make his feet move.
• “Oh.” She dropped to her knees and put her hands over her mouth. Her eyes filled with tears. “Cal?”
• He rushed over and fell to the ground in front of her. His hands were shaking as he touched her shoulders, afraid that he was hallucinating her. When he touched warm flesh, all the breath left his body at once.