unbroken (unexpected series)

Chapter 47.5

        What do we do? Do we join his pack? Marx asks Camilla over their mate-bond, did you see the Elders eyes, we can't return we need to lie low, her response instant.

        Our pack?

        "Those in our pack?" Marx asks Logan.

        "Will be welcomed to join mine once you've accepted my authority," Logan replied and from his view I can see a teary eyed Camilla nodding at her mate, rocking their sleeping child.

        When we make it down to Gabes office, Nonno, Nona, Greta and her mate disheveled are all waiting outside, the sound proof walls protecting their children. I wasn't worried about them being in his office not when I knew that there was a jammer in Gabriel's office preventing the Elders from using any electronic taggers or trackers, protecting our location from them.

        Greta can you and your mate please go to Gabriel's office, I tell them then, Nonno, Nona, can you guys meet us at Gabriel's office.

        "Ciò che è sbagliato Gabriel?" Nonno asked concerned as we approached. "We needed to show you something," I murmured but neither Gabriel nor I moved to open our door. Both of us were waiting for both Camilla and Marx to finish their convergence speech. When they were completed and we knew that their thoughts would be blocked from the Elders as well as appearing void to their pack members, we opened the door.

        Wide eyes, "papà?" Camilla whispered her eyes glassy, tears falling silently down her face, Marx not fairing any better than his mate, both sets of parents running to their children.

        "Sangue perché tutto questo sangue?" Nonno hurried to his daughter questioning her about the blood on her body, her face, dried all over her neck, her face covered not an inch of alabaster skin that he was used too.

        "Mama? You - all - you're here - alive?" Marx at her side questioning his Greta and Zeke - his parents - as well, still confused and neither able to keep their thoughts straight. "Oh Mama!" Camilla sobbed, "You - you were gone too... I saw," Camilla lifts her hand to touch her mothers face and I'm reminded that the last time Camilla saw her mother, as far as they all knew Nona was dead. Our plane was supposedly heading off to Italy to bury her mother.

         "I thought - it was staged? No - I - you had no heartbeat..." Camilla seems to be shaking, her body sways and to her side Marx is answering his parents demand for answers. Tears falling, not a single eye dry.

        "We were ambushed," Marx began when his father questioned why they were covered in blood. "We were visiting with George, everyone - we were attacked - shot, Cami was - you were - she died - the Elders couldn't do anything. For two hours she was - this was - but she just gasped, how is this possible?" he turned to me questioning, Jack?Can you come to Gabriel's office?

        Holding my hands out, I stop Marx, "Go back, the Elders saw her die?" he nodded woodenly, "We all did, there was no way - she shouldn't - but oh god," he turned to look at Cami, his eyes full of love, relief and joy.