Chapter 030

HANNAH

Although Jace drove really fast, I felt like he could not get to my house fast enough. I sat on the very edge of the car seat, wondering what horrors Asher and his father had unleashed on my mother, now my only present family. Jace, thankfully did not go on offering hollow words of comfort. He seemed to know that silence was what I needed now. Silence was what I needed to process this.

"She will be fine," was all he said and I held on to those words fiercely.

Jace started to say something when he pulled up in front of my house but I was already out of the car, racing to the front door. I threw the door open, expecting... Well, I didn't know what I was expecting but it was a relief to see that the house was still intact. And there my mother was, sitting on the sofa with a piece of paper that looked like a letter in her hands. She was here. She was alive and fine and that was all that mattered.

"Mum." I stopped for a few seconds to catch my breath. "You sounded urgent over the ph