-UndoubtedlyYours-

-Chapter♛♚FortyTwo-

✧WHAT A WONDERFUL GIFT✧

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Rhea was delighted to hear back from so many people and so soon! Her friends were in a mess of questions, and while Rhea had remained broad on her answers of what it's like to be a wife now—Especially to someone like Alphard Black, she had written out her entire heart on her parcel to Jade and the rest.

Though she hadn't heard from Evelyn in quite a bit, so she sent out an owl in an attempt to be the offering hand and checking in. It had been two days, and it was safe to say that the owl had most likely been ignored.

With the personal letters all checked and written to send, Rhea had departed off towards the room of gifts—It was finally dwindling down further, and above all...She was on the finals gifts, those closest to her and Alphard

She had begged Andy not to get her anything, but of course, the woman wouldn't let up. And thus, she had been gifted a few small things. Which made Rhea thankful if that, especially when the Slytherin had heard she was planning to return to her personal studies.

Rhea could never say no to a new stationery, and it nearly sent her to tears in seeing that it said Rhea Black at the end.

"Love...? Ah, still at it? Please don't spend all day in here." He beckoned and she scoffed. "Funny, I should be telling you that. Not to worry, I just finished up owling my friends....Look what Andy got me!" She ushered, and he had walked forward with a small smirk playing on his face.

He hadn't known what his niece was up to, but seeing Rhea's face so enlightened in seeing her new name had made him just as happy.

"You know...My chair isn't the same now that—"

"Alphard we have things to get done, later." She said with narrowed eyes, and shook off his hungry stare.

"Later...Orion is coming over later, so what you really mean is tonight." She perked her lips in order to hide her smile, shaking her head before returning back to the list.

"Oh! This is from my family!" His laughter had distracted him from the plans lingering tonight, and as he approached closer he had wondered if they would be petty.

Especially from her parents.

"I don't know love, I have a feeling your father would rather give me a cursed item than anything of honest value." Rhea hadn't given her husband the benefit of reacting to that sort of comment besides a shake of her head.

Her smile of the box erupting with chocolate frogs, a beautiful black cloak with the Black family crest as the buckle as well as a necklace, all of which had made her smile.

"Ah, that must be from Bella. Most of the Black women in the family have that sort of cloak." Rhea nodded and unboxed it further, wrapping it around her neck and enjoying the weight and softness of the material.

"I didn't know there could be this dark a shade of black...I feel like a shadow." She said pulling the hood over her head only for it to cover her eyes. "I'll have a grey one commissioned, and a navy blue?" She nodded eagerly before looking to the box once more.

"Ah, more chocolate frogs?" She nodded. "Rabastan got me those in Honeydukes, rather sweet—I thought I told him not to get me anything." She loved the gifts regardless of the amount or value, she was still overwhelmed with everything else that had been gifted that it was nice to have something that she actually adored.

Yet she nearly missed the final gift at the bottom of the box, and upon unwrapping the protective wrappings she had gasped at the beautiful desk clock she had been gifted.