Her Second Mate
“Lena told us about you.”
I smiled shyly. “Yes, ma’am.”
“Oh, please,” she waved it off, pulling me gently into a hug that smelled like home. “Call me Maren.”
Their father grinned from the doorway. “And I’m Davin, though apparently everyone calls me the guy who makes terrible jokes.”
Lila snorted. “Because you do, Papa.”
The dinner table was loud.
The kind of loud that made my chest ache in the best and worst ways.
They were all talking over each other Davin teasing Lila about her messy room, Lina rolling her eyes at him, Maren laughing while trying to keep the meal from burning and for a while, I just sat there, quiet, smiling faintly.
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