Intended Series Collection: Books 1-6 by Abigail Grant (most important books to read TXT) 📕

It pretty much just depends on how well you take care of yourself, although we heal better than humans too, so we don't get sick very often."

I gasp at his words. "Are you freaking kidding me?! I'm going to live to be two hundred years old!" I say louder than I intended. I look over at Kassy, realizing that I am going to way surpass her lifespan. How am I going to live with her loss some day?

Jack waves away my worry with a hand. "Don't worry, El. Disasters happen all the time. You could live two more years or two hundred more. Just try not to think about it too much."

I sink into an open seat at the dining table. "Thanks, Jack. I feel so much better," I say sarcastically, having a bit of a childish fit now.

He laughs on the way back to his seat by his beautiful wife. Kassy sits by me and pats my shoulder. "Don't worry so much about all of this, El. It is what it is, and you have a chance to actually make a difference in the world. It's what you are meant to do."

I nod at her. "Thanks, Kass.”

"Pretty El!" I hear a small voice call behind me.

I turn in my seat and see Ethan running up to me. He jumps onto my lap and gives me a sweet hug. I hug him back and poke his belly, making him giggle. "Hey, Ethan. I missed you. You can just call me El, you know."

He smiles at me, showing two deep dimples just like Gavin's. "But you are pretty, so I say it. My mommy always tells me to not lie." He notices Kassy beside me and whispers loudly to me with a small hand covering his secret. “Your friend is pretty too!”

Kassy giggles at the adorable boy. “Holy moly. I think I’m in love.”

"Well, your mom is very smart. It's good to be truthful, so I guess I should tell you that you are very handsome." I say, making him smile wider.

He kisses me on the cheek and runs to his laughing mother. Sophia smiles warmly at me, making me glad that they don't all have a problem with me, like Hagan. I glance back over at him and he is still frowning like an old grumpy man. I guess he is over sixty, so it makes some sense. I just wish he'd smile at least once, so I can be sure he isn't evil.

Gavin passes up the empty seat next me and picks one on the opposite side of the table. My heart splinters at his choice, a piece of it disappearing within me. If I don't get over him and quit enduring this heartache, there won't be a heart left inside of me soon.

Gram joins us from the kitchen and brings the most amazing pork chops and buttery corn on the cob. I could eat her food every day and live a very happy, and apparently long, life. I wonder how old she is. I’m too scared to ask the question out loud.

I try to avoid Gavin for the rest of the meal, focusing on the delicious food in front of me and the silly family chatter filling the room. They have so many inside jokes from always being around each other that I keep losing track of the conversation, but it’s nevertheless entertaining.

As I tear into my second sweet roll, all of the guys leave the table to go check out some of Jack’s new building plans he has in his car. His architecture firm landed a big project, and it has gotten them all excited.

"Girls, why don't we all go to the living room and enjoy some time without those noisy boys." Sophia says, looking at Kassy and I. "I'd really like to get to know you both if y’all don't mind."

I smile, glad that she is distracting me from thinking about Gavin. "That would be great." I stand and wave Ethan over. "I guess one boy is allowed, though. Come on, little man."

Ethan grins from ear to ear and runs over to my side as we head to the front room. We all find a comfortable place to sit and Camilla puts some soft 1950’s music on with an old record player. Ethan snuggles close to me on the couch we share with Kassy and Gram.

"If it’s okay with you, I’d like to hear about your parents, El. I know they passed when you were young, but do you remember them at all? Did you know that they could see future events?" Sophia asks with honest curiosity. Hagan's wife, who's name I still don't know, sits near Sophia. She doesn't look mean like her husband, but she isn't exactly smiling when I look at her, either.

"It’s totally fine. I remember my parent's faces when I think about it really hard. I never knew they could see things in the future, or anything about Seers. They told me that someday I would have a gift of seeing things before they happen, and that it was important I never told anyone." I feel a small wave of guilt about not heeding my mother’s words. "Of course, I didn't anticipate meeting you guys. I remember my parents always looking over their shoulders and moving us around a lot. It’s like they were constantly worried, but they showed me a lot of love. They cared so much about one another and made me laugh. They took great care of me before they were killed. They actually saved me in the end."

"How did they save you?" Gram asks this time.

I think back to the night I lost them forever. "Well, I remember my parents being more stressed than usual about something that whole day and they seemed almost scared which was strange for me because they were pretty silly with me most of the time. I don't know why, but my mother had this cupboard in her bedroom that she always