Chapter 89

Alex and Aurora: Age over 6 years

GABRIEL

I watched as Alex stomped his feet, frustrated about something I couldn’t quite point at.

“I don’t like this?” He muttered under his breath, watching the leg he had been building for days. He was always low on patience, and lego was definitely not his choice of toy but Sophia and me had gotten it on purpose, hoping to instil some

calm in him.

He wasn’t too happy about the impromptu gift we had gotten hien but had been building it any way to not break his mother’s heart.

1 blinked, looking at the hundred pieces car set.

“I think it’s alright,” I comment from behind, “Just the door seems a little off. You might want to remove that black piece and interchange it with the red one.”

Alex looks at both the pieces as if taking in my suggestion with a lot of consideration before he picks up the toy and throws it down with so much force, all pieces fall apart. Then, he grins

I shake my head, sighing.

Zach, who had been watching the scene unfold with amused eyes, laughs, his head falling back.

He only shuts up when I glare at him. It’s a rule Sophia and I had made, to not laugh when he does something like this in case he takes it as encouragement. ⠀

“Why would you do that, Alex?” I ask.

“You said it was alright.

“Yeah. Alright’s a good thing”

“But, his eyebrows furrow, “Miss Mary taught us in class that alright is average.”

“Average is good, I add again.

“No.” He announces, “I don’t like average. I want to be the best.”

I shake my head again and my best friend grins. “Your son,” Zach’s smile was so wide, it showed all his teeth, “No patern test needed.”

I glare at him.

wanna-be perfectionist who would stop at nothing?

wanna-be perfectionist,” I roll my eyes. “I am a natural

out of his

“Hey Alex, Zach calls.

up, leaving the scrambled lego pieces that

never liked Zach, and he probably

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want to be when you grow

“A fireman.”

new,” Zach comments,

I can light you on fire.

was so instant that I don’t think I I can even discipline

huh?” I smirk.

put out fire. They don’t

his foot. “So I

love

“Maybe he’s the only sane

Miss Mary on fire if she tells me again that I shouldn’t be playing after

half day cloud my mind. “If you

son shakes his

light Uncle Zach on

Inod

won’t do

I smile at him, “Now,

eyelashes. “But even you can’t call Skye my cousin. She’s not my sister, and she gets very upset when

you don’t mind if I call Skye your

attention shifting back to the disassembled lego car. “Just

“He wants to

him. He protects everyone

better keep his love to

she’s eight. I think they’ll be okay.” I laugh, and Zach frowns, an equation

old son flings into my arms when join my wife and them in the park, and Alex runs to Aurora

at a kid older than him till he leaves the third

daje her hand at her

mother for allowing that? Freckles whispers to Anna, who

his adorable little

upgraded to Dad a year after Ronan was born, and I hated that they

brown hair. These are the big kid swings. How about I hold you for a bit and let you swing? Do you want to try it

that. She did it once when the twins were little but somehow managed to end up getting her hair

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