Rae’s POV
When I closed the mind link with Eero, letting him tell Malachi, Grams and Mylee know that I was okay but needed some space, I sat and took in the view around me. It really was breath-taking here. I tried to blank out my mind, breathing deeply, letting go of all my worries, concerns, and questions, but after a while, they seemed to just creep back in.
I knew I was going to have to deal with all of this. I just wasn’t sure how ready I was. But then, who was ever ready for their entire world to be turned upside down? I certainly wasn’t, at 14, when my family was taken from me. Yet here I am, alive, surviving and managing my life reasonably well. Or so I thought, at least, anyway.
Life had a funny way of blowing things out of the water, and I started to question everything. I
