22I must have told Damon the same story twenty times. Each time he heard it, he couldn’t believe that his own mother was the leader of the Gatekeepers. She had hated anything that wasn’t Christian, so something must have happened to her that made her do a complete one eighty. He confessed that it felt as if his entire childhood was a lie.
Damon needed time to process, while I needed time to catch up on work. Classes kept me busy, but so did my thoughts. If the Gatekeepers were serious about trying to turn Erica, then things could get deadly real quick. I spent my nights watching over her while she slept. It felt wrong, but it was something I had to do. Damon agreed, and surprisingly, so did Aeria.
Although I had told them about the Gatekeepers, I hadn’t told Aeria or Damon about Mike’s l
