Epilogue 2 - Gabriel

12 months later continued…

Listening to Esme panic rushing around the house, I am wondering why we offered to hold a get-together at our house for our friends. We should have let it be at Lilah and Knox’s like normal. Damn me trying to be clever and be a better host than Knox.

“Have we got enough drinks in? What about snacks?” I hear Esme ask for about the tenth time in about half an hour.

She is dashing between the kitchen and the lounge, trying to make sure everything is tidy, when I know my friends really could not care less, and within ten minutes of them being here the house will look a mess, especially when Finn and Kai are toddling around looking for things to mess with. Thankfully, Dan and Indie’s youngest, Wren, is not at the age where she can toddle very well just yet. Though she is just as much of a mischief as her big brother, so that was only a matter of time.

“Mi Amor, it is fine” I tell her the same thing I have every ither time she asked. Not that she wil