OLD VERSION: Amendable (Book 3 in the Original SOCIETY Series) ✔

❦Seventeen❦

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Standing by the entrance to the living room, I leaned my shoulder against the side, crossing my arms as I looked around at everyone just sitting so quietly. I had stopped counting how long they'd all been sitting there, trying to sink in the number of revelations discovered earlier.

One: Eli and Maddox were proving they truly had gifts that were stronger than those given to my Aunt Emeel and my dad. 

The boys were not twins, yet they both shared a gift that my aunt and dad could not even fathom developing. What exactly to call that ability they had, I had no idea, but it was already astounding they both could see something---rather someone---from when I touched them. 

Albeit the fact that the dirt I had on me allowed the boys' ability to push through, it proved that what they were was now more dangerous than we'd thought. 

Second: Maddox, Sr. was alive. 

How the fuck did that fucker manage to come back to life after we all saw his lifeless body on that battlefield?

I remember seeing Maddox lying there, his eyes staring off at nothing and there was blood---so much of it. It couldn't be possible that Maddox just managed to find a way to wake up and walk away. 

If he was alive... then why isn't he here with us? Why didn't he tell us? Why let us all suffer for so long?

Third: What if Maddox wasn't the only one alive?

It was in the back of my mind now for some time, and I can't stop wondering if it is possible that Maddox had escaped that battlefield alone. My mind then went to a particular blue-eyed, blond-haired Werewolf whose sister had died that very same day. 

What if only Maddox was alive? Would that set Easton off more? 

The guy was a ticking time bomb so I am just thinking that if only Maddox is alive and Easton has to continue living knowing that his sister is really gone... that's just going to be disastrous. I could already see Easton cursing the universe for allowing Maddox to live and not his sister. 

I groaned, running a hand over my face before settling my gaze over at the boys sitting on the floor in front of their parents. Maddie was playing with his one-eyed stuffed animal and would lift it up to wiggle it in front of Eli who laughed lightly. 

The older of the boys suddenly met my gaze and I could see that he was studying me, something in his head that he wanted to say. I was guessing he wasn't saying anything because his parents and everyone else was here so I raised a brow tilting my head at him. 

Eli raised a brow back at me, tilting his head in the same direction as I had. 

He glanced at his parents talking quietly with one another; my cousin sniffling as she would try saying something to Dennison who would frown at her, shaking his head while caressing the side of her face. Thea shut her eyes, shaking her head back at him before Dennison pulled her against him. 

Eli cleared his throat, gaining his parents' attention, then asked if he could go get a glass of orange juice. Thea sniffled, smiling weakly at her son as she nodded. The pre-teen stood up, lifting his eyes to the man sitting beside his mother whose gray eyes were watching him in a way that made Eli halt a second. 

The boy's brown eyes stared back at his father's, both in this silent stare down that made me wonder how the hell did Eli manage to do that as long as he was doing. But then I remembered whose son he was and it made sense. The only thing is that Dennison's hard gaze worked on anyone---everyone---even his own kids, but right now...