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Eve laughs. “He worships her. She’s his little queen.”
A shout from the other end of the garden, a voice that sounds suspiciously like Ian’s, had Eve wincing. “I guess he did do it.”
“Do we have to ground her now?” I muse.
“Yeah. Let’s get it over with.”
However, we don’t have to do it because Mark already grounded her and now she is sulking while Ron tries to explain to her that what she did, while funny, was wrong.
Mark doesn’t look amused at his fiance’s attempts to explain away his punishment.
“She knows what she did was wrong,” he says, grimly. “Stop trying to baby her. She’s nearly six.”
When Mila glares at him, he gives her a stony look, which has her glancing away, knowing when she is beaten.
Since Mila already looks up to Ron as a temporary father figure since spent so many years co-parenting her, Mark’s staunch presence in his life makes him another parent figure to my daughter.
Oddly enough, I don’t mind it.
Mila has a lot of people looking out for her. It makes me feel secure that she is always going to be loved and cherished.
I watch her scamper off the minute she sees Elijah walk in, no doubt to complain to him about how she is being mistreated. Not that it would matter.
He will side with Mark.
Although, he will manage to do that while talking her out of her sulk.
It took Ron a month to come to terms with what Mark is, and the heartbroken enforcer had roamed around aimlessly, believing the flamboyant love of his life was leaving him.
Of course, Ron was too head over heels to leave Mark, and they drifted back together, with Mark proposing a few short months later.
Frank Donavon is currently serving a life sentence in prison.
Eve’s dance studio was relocated to another, more central city area and rebranded at her insistence. She wanted a new start. Fortunately, most of the teachers had followed her. Lorraine insisted on working as well, despite her mothers’ protests.
Eve refused to finish law school, saying she didn’t need it anymore. However, I make sure that she knows it is always an option if she ever chooses to change her mind.
Her parents—is still a rocky relationship, and while Eve is working to get some balance with them, I can tell at times that it isn’t easy for her. But she is trying.
She loves them.
Forgiveness for what they had done was just something that was going to take time.
Seeing Fergus in the distance, I raise my hand in greeting, and he makes his way over to us. “Did Agatha chew on you yet?”
He is grinning and I sour. “We’re just going to have a small private ceremony at the end of the month. Don’t get too excited.”
He laughs. “Small ceremony, my ass. She’s going to make it bigger than this. She was really pissed.”
When Eve looks too pleased, Fergus chuckles. “She’ll get you back for that one, Eve.”
Eve shrugs.
I know she likes Agatha.
They have their own weird relationship.
I don’t even bother at this point. Because the minute I would try to interfere, they would gang up on me and tell me to mind my own business.
