Chapter 81 - "MATE!"

Louisa

Our children had grown up way too fast for my liking and, by the looks of things, Helena felt the very same way. We were both feeling the incredibly overwhelming sensation of empty nest and the funny thing was they weren’t going anywhere.

Unlike Liam and Helena’s parents, we weren’t moving out of the castle now that our son was going to be the king. Our family liked the fact that we were all living together. We loved each other very much and were incredibly close. When the time came to make the decisions on whether we were moving, it was a unanimous decision for all of us to stay.

Our children didn’t grow up like cousins. They were more like siblings, and we were these very odd parents who co-parent all of them together, but it worked, and it made all of us happy to be that close. Which made me wonder how our dynamics were going to change if our children met their mates.

My parents lived with us right up to their last days and only Liam’s parents were still alive. When they got