Chapter 30

*Gemini*

Blossom sings quietly to herself through tears and sniffles, occasionally hitting against the metal cage wall like she just can’t handle the confined space anymore. I wish there was something I could say or do to let her know it will all be okay, but truth be told, I’m not sure I’d buy that line if someone fed it to me. So instead I choose to distract her.

“How long have you been in here, Blossom?” I whisper. Her singing stops, and I hear her as she shuffles closer.

“A few days, I think.” She sighs. “Do you think Vi is okay?”

“I know she is.” I smile to myself, remembering the girl who tried to drag me to safety before she had to retreat.

I get it now, her reasoning for abandoning me. She has someone who needs her more. Yet she still tried to save me.

“Do you have a family?” Blossom asks and I think of my baby brother who I’m sure no longer looks or acts like a baby. He has a tender heart and uncommon process of logical thinking. He is strange, but he is blood and damn, d