unbroken (unexpected series)

Chapter 18

“Yes, I’m fine,” she whispered with a thick, sultry accent, in addition to the nod, and walked to the hatch. I glanced away and then back as the cabbie opened the hatch. I expected that most of her things were already inside of course, because the only thing she pulled from the hatch, were three violin cases, one guitar case and one suitcase. Strapping them to her, she bent the suitcase onto its wheels and went inside, glancing back at me for the briefest moment over her shoulder, while I gawked at her, dazed. She’s going to think I’m an idiot… I thought as I finally entered the cab, already plotting on how to run into her again, next time asking for a name. We’re doomed… Zed thought sadly.

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Tom POV (Walters Father)

I stood with Jax and my eldest son, Theo, watching a hunched over Walter walking away, a ghost of him self. I sighed walking back to the house, but my mind clouded over with the words and thoughts I had just been given, information that made sense while throwing me off completely.

We entered the house, and I tried to avoid meeting Lynns’ bluish green eyes, the hopefulness that we had brought Walter back with us, only to realize we hadn’t and to shrink inside her self. “That boy of yours,” Greg – Lynn’s father – said, shaking his head, and I could only imagine the pain he was in right now, watching his daughter fade away because of the rejection she was facing from my son. Still his words rang clear in my mind, ‘No! No! She is not,’ he said stubbornly, almost broken, ‘Dad, I don’t feel it, nothing, when I look at her I don’t see what you do when you look at mom, or when you look at Jenny Theo. I can’t explain it, when I’m around her I wish I wasn’t and when I’m not, I’m happy or as happy as I could be here.’ My mind still unable to get over that statement, it was nothing like a mate should be feeling, he was right.

“Lynn,” I called her watching as she moved her food around her plate but not really eating, my own daughter, 17 years old as well, sitting next to her. She lifted her head, and again my heart broke for her pain and suffering, “Since you’ve been on this island… have you felt panicked? Not sad, but has your heart raced to where you felt you were in danger?” I asked her, keeping my face as blank as possible, Jax and Theo widened their eyes only to immediately and conveniently become interested in their own plates.

“No sir, once we got here, I’ve been feeling safe, I mean even when we were on the helicopter I’ve known we were going to be alright, that the Elders wouldn’t find daddy here,” and while those words should have brought a smile to my face a natural one, it didn’t, I nodded and she went back to her not eating, but with each bit I swallowed, the food seemed to get heavier and heavier, struggling to swallow.

“Lynn, how about we go back to your house?” I heard Claudia ask her and I was thankful, because things were settling in right, things were making sense and I could only hope we hadn’t done the wrong thing, but whatever happened, Lynn would still be getting hurt in this situation because I knew my son. Or I thought I did… but when the time came for us to disappear, we had no reason too… not really… but we had been getting more visits from the Elders, until we knew for sure we were in danger and fled. When Lynn and Claudia left I dropped my fork abruptly, my eyes focused on my eldest, his mate right next to him, “Is it possible that you have any children with some girl, some one night event that you just don’t know about Son?” I asked pointblank, because now with what Walter was saying I hated to think of the mess that had been created here.