Chapter <b>112 </b><b>Amalie </b>
<b>My </b>stomach is a bundle of nerves as I pick at my breakfast. Beren is no better in helping <b>me </b><b>stay </b>calm as she is full of nervous energy too as <b>she </b>is waiting to go talk to our parents, I had tossed <b>and </b>turned all night <b>as </b>I thought over what I was going to say to my parents. What I was going to ask
them.
The twins had warned me that going down to the cells, we would <b>have </b>to appear that whatever <b>they </b>said meant nothing. We had to appear that we could walk away at any moment because we did not need the answers. Uncle Mike had chimed in that it was going to be a chess match. We had <b>to </b>
remain steps ahead of everyone else.
“Love<b>, </b>you don’t have to go with us,” <b>Cal </b>tries to dissuade me.
<b>“</b>Calyx, we talked about this,” I sigh at him as I push my te away from me.
“I know, I just thought I would try once more before we leave,” Cal smirks at me as he grabs my te. He then hands me a small cup of coffee.
I smile at him and start to sip on it. Since my first taste of coffee, I <b>have </b>be addicted to it. But my <b>twins </b>have been regting my coffee intake.
“You leave?” Rose asks as she <b>finishes </b>her te.
Mark stands up, picking up Rose, as she had been in hisp, and hands her to me. He ces a <b>kiss </b>on Rose’s head and then kisses <b>me</b><b>. </b>
“We have to do a few things this morning at the pack house,” I tell her.
“Ie with!” Rose says excitedly <b>as </b>she starts to try and get off myp. “I go back to big ce.”
“Not today, Rosebud,” I say <b>as </b>I stop her from leaving myp. I don’t want her anywhere near my parents when I go to talk with them. This must how my mates have been feeling. I catch the look the twins <b>are </b>giving me. “Not a word,” I tell them, as I know I <b>am </b>being hypocritical.
“You’re staying here with me, half pint,” Uncle Mike says as he wheels himself over to us. He pulls Rose into hisp, “We are going to bake cookies today.”
“Cookies?” Rose asks excitedly as she gets distracted from going with us.
“Yep,” he says as he boops her nose. “We are going to make are going to make snickerdoodles.”
“No chocothins?” Roses asks in confusion as she continues to butcher the word chocte.
“Sorry, I’m out of chocte chips,” heughs as he gives me a <b>pointed </b>look.
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“I am not sorry.” I tell him with a smile.
“I know,” Uncle Mikeughs.
“Thank you,” I tell him.
He nods his <b>head</b>. “Get the answers you need,” he tells me.
I take a deep breath before I finish my coffee. I stand up and take my mug to the sink.
“Bye, be safe,” Uncle Will says as he is running out the door.
I turn and look at my mates in confusion. The twins both shrug as <b>they </b>don’t know either.
“William has the early shift and <b>is’not </b>a morning person,” Uncle Mike sighs as he wheels himself <b>and </b>Rose into the kitchen. “Change of ns half pint, <b>we </b>are going to take breakfast to Uncle William.”
“We’ll send Nick over to help,” Mark says as he rinses and puts the dishes in the dishwasher.
Uncle Mike nods his head. “We’ll go on an adventure,” Uncle Mike tells Rose in an excited <b>and </b>
conspiring tone.
The <b>three </b>of us give Rose kisses before <b>we </b>leave the house. Mark leads the way back towards the
pack house.
Nick is jogging towards us. He stops as we all meet up on the sidewalk. “Sam <b>and </b>James are waiting for you at the basement entrance,” Nick tells us.
My twins are nodding their heads.
“Thank you for going to watch Rose with Uncle Mike,” I tell Nick.
He just nods his head. I can see the defeat in his body. I
well. He is the youngest and must feel like he is getting and that he wanted to be there as
out for being a kid.
“After what happened the other day, we want someone else to watch over Rose when she leaves the house. Uncle Mike will <b>need </b>help in protecting her,” <b>Mark </b>says. He must have an idea of how Nick is
feeling.
“You will be part of questioning your father when we get to him,” Cal speaks up. “Today we questioning Ama and Sam’s family.”
“I know,” Nick sighs. “I just feel like the kid getting the easy job or busy work.”
“Nick, <b>you </b><b>are </b>protecting my pup for me. That is important and means a lot to me,” I tell him. “Rose is one of the most important people to <b>me</b><b>.</b>”
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“I <b>know </b>Luna, it’s just hard. But I will watch and protect her,” Nick says with determination.
“Thank you,” I smile.
We then part ways as three of us continue to the pack house and Nick takes off jogging towards Uncle Mike’s. We reach the pack house a few minutester and walk up the steps. Cal leads me towards the basement entrance.
Sam and James are standing rigidly beside the door. James is not making any jokes<b>. </b>Sam is not rolling his eyes. They add to my already frazzled nerves.
I swallow down my nerves. I can do this. I have to do this. I have questions and they have <b>the </b>
answers.
Cal takes a key out of his pocket. He unlocks the basement door, and the five of us start down the <b>stairs</b>. James goes down first, followed by Sam, Cal, me and then Mark takes up the rear.
Mark slips a key into the lock and locks the door behind us. “Here,” Mark says as he slips the same key into my hands. “If something happens, you are to use that key to get out. You leave us down here <b>and </b>you get yourself out.”
“I’m not leaving you both,” I shout as I look at my twins.
‘Love,” Cal says as he stops moving, “you can be there with us. But if something happens to us and we tell you to run, you run. That is our one term, or we all go back upstairs now.”
“Fine, but it’s under protest,” I grumble.
“We can live with that,” Mark says seriously.
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