Chapter 55

Ebony's POV

A middle-aged man stormed past us, and Ford maneuvered me out of his path so quickly and smoothly that I wouldn’t have realized he was protecting me if I hadn’t been paying such close attention.

Rocco’s mother threw her arms around both of her boys, hugging them fiercely.

“We’ll get through this,” she swore to them. “We’ll figure something out, and we’ll get through this.”

Rocco’s brother snarled, “There’s no getting through losing your mate, Mom. She was my whole fucking world.”

My stomach clenched at the pure pain in his words.

Elliot jogged up to us, his face red and sweaty like he’d been running or something. The expression on his face was a grim one.

“Now she’ll move on, and I’ll be fucked for life,” Rocco’s brother snarled again, then staggered.

A group of five guys who all looked a few years older than us came jogging up. One of them carried a baby in a backpack thing over his chest, and they all looked as grim as El