𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐒 || 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐄 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍 [𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐕𝐄𝐑.]

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟓

On the morning of 1 December —as if by a Christmas miracle— Yuna Aelan Sakurai and Nagisa Arien Kirigaya opened their eyes to find their children asleep in Rêverie's arms while she slept on the couch in the bedroom.

Rêverie opened her eyes at the sound of a phone taking a picture, almost dropping her nephew and niece as she quickly got up from the couch to see the smiling but tired faces of her siblings.

“Don't ever worry me like that again…” she murmured, pulling them into an embrace after setting her nephew and niece down on the couch, “I don't want to lose you like Nao.”

“We won't…” they both denied, wrapping Rêverie in their arms as they could.

“You were right about Isabella,” Yuna spoke minutes after being silent. “She doesn't have the intention to change, she hates me…”

“It's not your fault.”

“But! I still don't understand why she does it…” she whispered in pain, “I don't know what I did wrong to make her hate me, what I could have changed to make h–”

“Yuna, you didn't do anything wrong,” Nagisa interrupted, wiping away his girlfriend's tears.

“You were just yourself and she refused to accept your love blinded by jealousy and envy,” added Rêverie.

“W-What happened to her?”

“I altered her memories and sent her with her mother,” she replied calmly, “I thought you wouldn't want me to kill her.”

“And I didn't want you to know what kind of a monster I am.”

“Aru, you're not a monster,” Yuna denied seriously. “You are not a monster because of what you are, but because of how you behave. Remember? That's what Nao once said,” she smiled. “So you're definitely not a monster. You're good in your own way, you can be cruel sometimes, but you're not a monster. Never.”

The door to the room opened, breaking the peaceful atmosphere inside as it revealed Rêverie's only intern, Carlisle Cullen.

“Am I interrupting something?” he asked, smiling nervously as he saw three pairs of blue eyes watching him.

“No, actually you're just in time,” said Rêverie, turning away from her siblings. “Check them for me, I need to make a couple of calls,” she commanded, leaving the room.

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By the evening of 1 December, the hospital room where Yuna and Nagisa were staying was overflowing with people. Not only were her siblings and children there, but also Yuna's two fathers and the Cullen family, to whom the couple happily introduced their siblings.