April arrived with the particular anticipation of a family counting down toward something they'd waited months to meet, and when Nova's water broke three days before her due date, the mansion erupted into a flurry of activity that reminded Ava, with fond amusement, of the chaos that had once accompanied every crisis this family had weathered except this time, the urgency carried nothing but joy. "She's at the hospital," Adrian announced, phone pressed to his ear as he grabbed his jacket. "James says everything's proceeding normally, but they want us there." *Then let's go,* Ava signed, already halfway to the door herself. Eleanor and Daniel arrived separately, having received the same urgent call, and the extended family found themselves gathered in the hospital's waiting room within the hour, the particular nervous energy of impending grandparenthood settling over all of them in equal measure. "I remember waiting like this for Adrian," Eleanor said, sitting beside Ava, her hands
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