My jaw nearly dropped when I saw the woman sitting at the back of the room we entered, behind a table with some jars whose contents I didn't recognize at the moment. The woman extended her hand to point out the two chairs in front of her, but my reaction was to move even closer and open my arms to greet her. "Bruma, I can't believe it!" I was so excited to meet the woman who had welcomed me to her hotel in the town I traveled to when I had decided to get away from the dangers of being with the twins just a few months ago. "What are you doing here?" Bruma stood up and hugged me. She also hugged Liam, who couldn't believe that the woman waiting for us was her. I don't know who he imagined, but I had thought we were going to meet my mother, and that after a reprimand, she would demand that

