Chapter Sixty-Three

Gender reveal

Hours, I had spent hours baking a gender reveal cake. Three tiers, with pink coloured vanilla tasting sponge on the inside, but no one knows that yet. The outside was white icing with pink and blue buttercream piped flowers and I had even made two floating balloons, one pink and one blue.

“What’s this?” Colette gasps as she walks into the front room from having been out all day with Mav.

“This is a gender reveal cake!” I beam at her.

“My Mum used to make celebratory cakes for special occasions in the pack, and well, I wanted to do something special for you both!” I trail off a bit towards the end, slightly embarrassed just in case it tasted awful.

“Oh Aida, it’s beautiful!” She says in earnest as she inspects the cake.

“But, we haven’t told anyone so I’m not sure if it will be right…” Her eyes widen in panic.

“Erm, so I may have let it slip to Aida…” Mav places his hands on his wife’s shoulders, letting her know gently.

“What?” Axel stands up from the sofa and wa