Chapter 78

“What do you know about my mother…”

They were in the study. Asher, Lance, and Noah stood behind Maggie ready to battle if their visitors pulled any silly games.

None of the External Threat unit members sat. Maggie didn’t offer them seats either. They weren’t friends nor foes and depending on their actions, she would decide whether or not she could accept them as part of her new family.

For now, however…

“I know that your father was in love with her,” Greg answered.

Maggie waited but when he didn’t continue she held out her hand. “But?”

“But your mother…she used to love your father until his brother, Ezekiel, came along and swept her off her feet.”

Maggie couldn’t believe it. She didn’t know her mother but she always dreamed of her as the perfect mother who would have been there for her if death hadn’t snatched her so far out of her reach. She liked to imagine that her parents were so in love that her father was devastated after her mother’s death. She imagined he was so devastated and