Chapter 33: The EyeAt home, I hid the sack in my room. I checked on Antonia and found my mother asleep beside her. Knowing she’d hate it if I let her sleep, I nudged her until she opened her eyes.
“Declan?”
“You fell asleep.”
She carefully untangled herself from Antonia. I helped her from the bed. Vibrant as she was, I sometimes forgot she was no longer a young woman.
I made sure the windows were locked and, seeing no birds, followed my mother into the hallway. “Everything good?” I asked.
“She’s sound asleep,” Lila said, yawning.
“Sorry to have woken you,” I said, following her.
“Please,” she said. “I would have been crippled if you hadn’t. That bed is too small.”
“Mom, it’s late. Why don’t you sleep here tonight?”
She squinted at her watch. “It is late. Where’d you go?”
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