chapter 27

Everly Another four weeks later. Life is hectic. I’ve just hit my second trimester, and the hotel is only a few weeks from being finished. Macey and Zoe are doing everything at the moment, from school runs to managing the renovations, now that the structure is fully fixed. Kalen is running the homeless shelter, while Dad works for my pack and Valen his. Valen's scientists have managed to replicate the inhibitor that Nixon created and have started working on finding a cure. Mom is getting blood tests but the vaccine needs to be administered every few days now; as we suspected, she’s becoming immune to the vaccine. The disease has also brought on early onset dementia; she’s losing her grip on reality. Dad is beside himself, and Ava is devastated. Ava and I are tasked with watching over Mom, which means taking her to these appointments. We’re also forced to carry tranquilizers everywhere we go with her, just in case, but she seems to have been able to pull herself out of her episodes each