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?

a wanna-be perfectionist,” I roll my eyes. “I am a natural perfectionist. Don’t

air out of his mouth

“Hey Alex, Zach calls.

up, leaving the scrambled lego pieces that he was

unknown, Alex has never liked Zach, and he probably

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do you want to be

“A fireman.”

new,” Zach comments, eyebrows furrowing.

you on fire.

I don’t think I I can even

huh?” I smirk.

frowns. “Firemen put out fire. They

whatever I want to be!” He stomps his

flutters to me. ‘Children usually love me. Why

shrug. “Maybe he’s the only sane kid

on fire if she tells me again that

tell him, my voice firm. Flashbacks from when Damien started a fire in the school when he wanted a half day cloud my mind. “If you light people on fire, they will get hurt, badly.

shakes

Zach on

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won’t do

I smile at him, “Now, apologise

his 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

his shoulders, attention shifting back to the

“He wants to protect my own daughter from

smirk. “You know him.

better keep his

six and she’s eight. I think they’ll be okay.”

and them

watch him glare at a kid older than him till

hand at

for allowing that? Freckles whispers to Anna, who just

my attention in his adorable little voice. “Mama

who calls me dada. The other two upgraded to Dad a year after Ronan was born, and I hated that they

his brown hair. These are the big kid swings. How about I hold you for a bit and let you

but somehow managed to end up getting her hair stuck in the ropes, and she

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