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“That’s impossible,” Caius said after we had told him everything that happened.

It was almost impossible to get Audrey back to sleep. We had conceded to having her sleep in our bed and the moment she was out, Camilla and I went in search of Caius. We tried to convince Audrey that whatever she saw was a

to us and it was more terrifying tha, Shtmare but she was

that it was not. She explained it

what her five year old brain should have been able to cook up. There was only one other explanation- it was a vision- but Caius didn’t seem to agree.

“She is a wolf, not a witch and wolves don’t have visions,” he explained. “It also cannot be her powers because she is five and not twenty one.”

“Well what do you expect that we tell our daughter?” Camilla asked with her hands crossed over her chest. “She was genuinely worried. There has to be some truth in what she said. She would not make up something like that.”

“Children lie,” he offered but I shook my head.

“Not Audrey, she has everything she could ever want, there is no reason for her to lie.”

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was in a tangled mess around her head from the number of times she had ran her fingers through it. She looked as frustrated as I felt and I wanted to reach out to console her but I didn’t even know where to start. She turned to me in exasperation as if pleading for me to say something but the truth was that I didn’t know

“We cannot tell anyone about this because it will only bring more questions than answers and the way I

Camilla exclaimed. “Do you expect that

right now

immediately relaxed into my hold and I rested her head against my shoulder. Caius’ eyes met mine and I gave him a simple nod of dismissal. There was nothing left to be done or said, he had done his best and for that I was grateful. He bowed before walking away and once he was gone, Camilla

of that sound in my bones, I felt the same way but in times like this, one of us had to remain strong. There were times where she held things together for both of us, the least I could do was extend the same courtesy to her. We stood there for a few minutes, just standing in the silence and feeling each other. No words were spoken but nothing needed to be said that hadn’t already been through our

to face me. “We should better check on Audrey.

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opened the door and the first thing I realized was that Audrey wasn’t on the bed. Panic seized my insides until I realized that she was sitting by the window. She was sitting under it with her legs pulled up to her chest, her cheeks were wet

you?” she sobbed into my shoulders. “You weren’t here when I woke up. I called

sorry,” I hated the way my voice cracked on the end. “I am so f ucking

happened already. My eyes found Camilla who was standing to a corner with her hands wrapped around herself. She was already crying and I could see

smoothed my daughter’s hair back. “Do you want some chocolate?”

settled. With her on my hip, I walked over to the kitchen. Camilla followed close behind and made hot chocolate in a small mug for Audrey. Audrey had stopped crying by now but she still didn’t want to be let

I placed Audrey on the bed but she refused to move from her spot between my legs. She leaned back against me

stilled before shaking her head. I had expected that kind of response but that didn’t mean I was going to let it slide. “I know you’re scared princess, but I need to know so that

scary and I don’t want to

I find that talking about my fears help me. I always talk to your mum

at me with her wide eyes before I spoke. “Big people get scared the most. We are scared most of the time.

Her brows scrunched. “Why?”

so I could be a good dad to

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