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* Josie’s POV **
Being a mum to six kids is tough. Especially when three of those kids had been born so close together, and
another has sobvious social and sensory issues, but | wouldn't have had it any other way.
Harper was an amazing big sister, helpingand the guys with her younger brothers. At just seven years old
she was very mature in ways | never expected. She loved mothering Sammy and the twins and often said she
couldn’t wait to have her own babies, which almost caused Mason to have a stroke. Now, as she approaches 17,
she has a very different attitude towards them. They annoy her, and she can’t wait to get away from them, and
us. Preferring to be out with her friends or locked away in her bedroom.
We had taken a year off together when the twins were born and it had been a wonderful year, and so we had
decided we were well overdue staway again. This will most likely be our last family getaway with all of
us together, and I'm determined to make the most of it, despite having two moody teenagers who hate the idea.
In just over a year, Harper will move out of our house and into the academy. She will meet her bonds and | can’t
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtstop feeling like that is the moment we will lose her. Our baby girl is growing up, and | don’t think any of us are
ready for it.
Deacon has rented a huge house in the human realm for an entire month and | have so many plans for whilst we
are there, starting with a family day at the beach. We arrive at the mansion and the kids all run to choose their
rooms. Two minutes of excited squeals, followed by arguments and scuffles ensue.
“The biggest room is ours!” Theo calls up the stairs to them and is met with a disappointed groan from Sam.
“Joel, do you wantto help you choose a bedroom?” Axel asks, and Joel gives him a blank look, blinking slowly
before shaking his head and walking up the stairs, clutching his laptop to his chest.
“There's no bedroom for us,” Jensen whines as he appears at the top of the stairs.
“There are ten bedrooms in this house, how can there be none left for you?” Deacon asks.
“They all only have one bed,” he says, his bottom lip pushed out in a pout.
“Don’t you want to have your own room?” Mason asks him and he shakes his head.
Elijah comes to stand beside Jensen now, looking just as upset about the idea of sleeping in a separate bedroom
from his brother. At 9 years old, we expected them to want their own space by now, but the twins are still as
close as the day they were born.
“Don’t worry, we can move sbeds around,” Luke says, running up the stairs to assist them.
“I'll go set up our room,” Deacon smiles, leaning in to kiss my cheek before heading up the huge staircase. “I'll
give them a hand,” Axe says, following the others.
I walk through the house, towards the large kitchen at the back. I've been here before. We cwithout the kids
to check the place out before we committed to paying for a month's rental. The games room and cinema in the
basement were what sold it for us. The kids are going to freak out when they see it, which is why we are keeping
i a secret until after our afternoon on the beach, otherwise, they won't want to leave.
| open the fridge and smile when | see the contents. We had sent quite an extensive list of groceries we required
to the housekeeper and, from what | can see, she got every item that we requested. | pull out the ingredients we
need to make sandwiches and Mason and Theo quickly get to work helpingprepare a picnic to take to the
beach. “My phone is not working,” Harper huffs as she walks into the kitchen with a scowl that rivals her father’s.
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“Letsee it,” Mason says, wiping his hands on a teatowel before holding a hand out to her.
She places the phone in his hand, and he looks at it in confusion.
“It looks fine to me,” he frowns when the screen lights up
“I can’t send any messages to my friends, it's saying no network available,” she complains.
“That's because we are in a different realm, your friends will still be there when we get home,” Mason shrugs
and hands the phone back.
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