“Your parents and mine did, so shut your damn mouth,” Apollo barks back.
“Someone has to keep the peace in this family,” Melody muses with a lightheaded voice. “Otherwise, we would’ve caused another bloodbath in these hospital halls.”
“Does anyone know why Sunny was in those woods?” Xavier asks.
No one answers. I don’t think anyone knows.
Not until she tells us.
Ifshe’ll ever tell us.
Because if there’s one thing everyone knows Sunny Reed can do well, it’s keeping secrets.
Sunny
Every headof each of our poly families is currently in my very crowded room. Ares, Caleb, Blaine, and their lover Crystal, my mom and dad and her two other lovers, and even the entire Rivera family, including Penelope, Dylan, Felix, and Alistair.
It should be a happy reunion for them, but all I want to do when they see me is look away.
“My baby,” Mom says, as she hugs me so tightly I can barely breathe. “I’m so glad you’re okay.”
Okay?
I am not okay.
Iexist.
That’s about it.
“The doctors told us they had to keep giving you infusions,” Dad says, swallowing away the lump in his throat. “You lost a lot of blood.”
Tears form in his eyes, but he immediately blinks them away. My dad rarely ever cries. I don’t think I’ve seen a single tear roll down his cheeks. Maybe once in a blue moon, but that’s it.
Which is why this is so difficult to stomach.
I hold out my arm, and he comes to hug me too.
I don’t want them worrying about me.
I’m alive. I’m here. That’s all that matters.
At least, for now.
“We were worried about you,” Max says as he grabs my hand.
When my parents release me from their hug, Elliot comes in next and hugs me tightly. “Missed you.”
“C’mon, don’t exaggerate,” I quip, making him laugh.
“You know better than to disappear on us, bitch,” he claps back.
“How long has it been?” I ask.
“More than a week,” Levi says, making a fist. “What happened?”
I swallow, not wanting to burden them with my choices or mistakes.
“Don’t hasten her,” Ares, Apollo’s dad, says. “Let her speak on her own terms.”
