Chapter 88 - Happily ever after.

Helena

I nudged Louisa the moment I saw the two lovebirds disappear, and we couldn’t help ourselves as laughter rang through the air.

“Ah, young love.” Louisa sighed contently and I nodded.

“Do you remember being that age? I mean, I do, but it seems to be so long ago.” I smiled as I noted the other children mingling with their friends.

“I remember thinking there was no way I would be able to be a queen!” Louisa cried with laughter.

“I remember wondering how on earth I was going to be intimate with my best friend.” I giggled. Louisa and I had become more than sisters-in-law. After what we had been through with the war and raising our children in the same home, we were more like biological sisters.

We had our differences of opinion, but we were closer than I ever was with my own brother. Bennie and Liam, of course, were almost like blood brothers. They sometimes remind me of the days when we were just mated, and we all would just have fun with life and with our kids. Those two never gre