Chapter Forty-One

Jane cried herself to sleep that night and by the morning she could wiggle her toes. She’d snapped her spine in the fall and it taken her a full day to regain some motion. The doctor wanted to keep her there until she could walk.

“Hi, sweetheart,” Sarah said as Jane opened her eyes and kissed her forehead.

“Hi, mom,” she whispered.

“The doctor says you’ve made amazing progress. He predicted that it would be a full week before you could move your toes.”

Jane couldn’t even muster a smile as her mother sat down on a chair next to the bed. “He said I could go home when I could walk.”

“Just concentrate on getting better. Ryan’s in a hearing right now with Kyle and Sebastian and his father.”

“Why?” Jane asked perplexed.

“You’re in the hospital, sweetheart, that constitutes an attack on a future Luna. Someone has to answer for that,” Sarah said.

“It was an accident, Mom. Sebastian and Ryan were fighting and Joseph took the brunt of our first fall. He tried to save me.”

Sarah smiled then and