Accidental Surrogate for Alpha
In another, Ariel is cuddled between her brother and her cousin, all wrapped up in a big blanket as the three sit around a campfire, their eyes wide and bright as they roast marshmallows and look with awe up at Roger, who is clearly in the midst of telling a scary story.
Roger laughs beside me at the sight and I press myself close to them as we get more insight into her life as she grows older, her teenager years as she becomes the Nation’s princess, as she grows into a beautiful, graceful young woman – but still one full of pranks, running through the halls of the palace with her brother and Jesse chasing behind.
And then I gasp, a little, to see our little girl dressed as a bride –
My hand