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  Arabella had this really weird adorable connection to Adlai. Adlai jumps off Gerald's knee and rushes over to her.
   
    "Do you like it? Pops helped me choose it"
   
    "Oh you look absolutely beautiful"
   
    She tells her, pulling out her phone
   
    "We need to take some selfies come on"
   
    She pulls her onto her knee and they start pulling funny faces and taking loads of pictures, she pulls Gerald into them too as they mess around.
   
    Carter watched them puzzled by the connection, I thought it was funny too.
   
    Arabella was definitely my nicest cousin other than Ella Ofcourse but she's so close to Arthur and his friends that we barely see her. she has been making an extra effort to come see us lately, but honestly it was to see Adlai and Gerald and not us.
   
    "Is Arthur excited, how come it changed to a black tie?"
   
    She screws up her nose rolling her eyes
   
    "It wasn't his doing"
   
    I frown sitting forward for the gossip, I chuckle when carter, Ella and Gerald pull forward as well.
   
    "He found his mate and she's a stuck up cow, I hate her"
   
    She whispers
   
    "Bella be careful what you say"
   
    Aspen scolds her, but pushes forward again subtly looking around the room
   
    "But she is a bitch"
   
    I chuckle looking between them
   
    "But is he happy?"
   
    "Apparently so"
   
    I shrug
   
    "Well then that's all that's important, so is she becoming Luna?"
   
    "Yes hence the effort"
   
    Aspen points around us
   
    "What are you going to do Bella?"
   
    I ask her, she shrugs her shoulders
   
    "Honestly I don't like her so I don't even want to stay here"
   
    "You can always come stay with us, mum and dads house will be finished in a few weeks and until then their old house has room in it"
   
    She looks to her mum, her eyes lighting up a little
   
    "Oh please mum can I"
   
    Aspen looks to Luca, he purges his lips
   
    "She can move in with you lot but not into a house full of boys"
   
    He answers her looking to us
   
    "She can live with us, we have room"
   
    Carter tells him, I grin at her a little excited
   
    "That's sorted then"
   
    "This means we can have a sleepover?"
   
    Adlai asks her wide eyed and excited
   
    "Its even better than that princess, it means we can have lots of sleepovers"
   
    Adlai squeaks, jumping on her knee. She jumps off and runs to carter, he pulls her onto his knee and she starts to tell him about something that happened during the day,
   
    I watch as everyone but my immediate family stop to gawk at them as carter laughs and makes her laugh, he tickles her and cuddles her, kissing her now chubby little cheeks.
   
    "He's so good with her, who would have guessed"
   
    Aspen tells no one in particular as she watches them
   
    "I would have"
   
    Bella tells her
   
    "I always thought he would make a good father, the way he cares for Carly. I didn't expect it so soon but I always imagined him as a fab dad"
   
    "Mummy she wants a selfie"
   
    Carter tells me, I grin leaning in and smiling to the camera as he takes some pictures of the 3 of us. After a while Bella clears her throat and tries to subtley point at Ailm, deacon, Isla and Jake.
   
    "Incoming"
   
    She whispers, mum sits up straighter as dad grabs her waist and yanks her onto his knee, holding her firmly in place. Adlai runs towards Gerald who has her sit between him and Daniel, I see Daniel sit straighter, blocking Adlais view of the table protectively. He may not be on duty but I guarantee he would still die for me and now that extends to adlai too.
   
    I casually lift my own behind and sit on Carter, his body was tense. What they said really did a number on him and he was not the forgiving type. In our pack of you said something like that they would have killed them, it would have been instant and rightly so.
   
    "No I would have made it slow and painful if anyone dared say such things"
   
    He whispers below my ear kissing me as they walk to the opposite side of the table, everyone sits there awkwardly. I clear my throat and smile at them
   
    "Hey, you all look good"
   
    Ailm and Isla give me a genuine smile then they look to mum nervously whose face is like stone.
   
    "Can we talk"
   
    Ailm asks her, mum nods towards the chairs in front of them, opposite us. I mentally facepalm. This is going to be so fucking awkward, she could have chosen any chairs but she just had to choose those ones.
   
    "We can, but it's not just me that you need to talk to, is it?"
   
    She was obviously finding this very difficult because the words came out a little spiteful. My mum was a lot of things but all of them were good.
   
    "No it's not just you, we want to apologise to all of you"
   
    Deacon tells us looking around the table but not making eye contact with anyone. That alone pissed me off.
   
    "Daddy can I go dance with Gerald and Daniel please?"
   
    She asks running up to us, he smiles lifting her chin and kissing her little cheek as everyone's eyes divert to them both
   
    "Yes but you stay with them at all times, no running off ok? And listen to them"
   
    "I promise"
   
    He lets her little chin go and she races of back to Gerald who's now standing with Daniel as they lead her towards the dance floor, as I look back deacon and Ailm are staring at her guiltily, my insides churned in annoyance as the memories of what they said flash before my eyes and I glare at him unable to hold back my anger, I still wanted to forgive them but that doesn't mean I like what they said,
   
    "You wished for that little ray of sunshine to stay dead, I'm not sure how you feel now but a shitty apology to the table where you don't even make eye contact with the people you cut to the bone won't cut it. Your opinion on my husband is obviously questionable at best considering he has saved your pack on numerous occasions. I'd love to see one of you survive without the other, what would you do if the Ailm marks stopped working and Ailm died? What would you do then? Because I know you wouldn't stop until you were dead yourself, but what if you couldn't die deacon? What if the only way you could die is if you gave it all away? what would you do? Because I know for a fact what you would do. You brand my husband as something that he is not on every possible occasion, treat him like he's a ticking bomb ready to go of but yet you still don't realise he denies the coven that made him, because if he did let them have what they wanted this world would be gone, no heaven or hell just a black obese"
   
    I slam my hands down on both their hands and I blind them of all their senses so there is nothing. No dark, no light, no feelings, no breath of air or light at the end of the tunnel. Nobody, nothing. I push them into my memories and leave them there, it could be a second or a moment but it felt like hours. I made them feel it all then I pulled them back and I let go of their arms with tears in my eyes as they gasp for air in shock.
   
    "That is what he is doing all day every damn day and if you both can't wise up and see that, if you continue in your campaign to tarnish his name I'll let the maker himself know that's where you should be going when the world goes boom"
   
    Ailm has tears run down her cheeks
   
    "Is that where you went when you died?"
   
    She asks me
   
    "Yes they sent me there so I could see what would happen if the darkness had no light, that's what would happen so he sent me back. Not because he's a time bomb but because he is darkness like I am light. If he died the same would happen, instead of sitting in darkness we would be sitting in light. So can you not see the damage you're doing by thinking these things? Is it not hard enough to live this life without your own family casting you out? Or wishing a little girl dead"
 

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