CHAPTER 53

Russell’s POV.

The importance of family is grossly under emphadized even though they get on your nerves sometimes and you want nothing more than to walk them out of your house sometimes and

warn them never to come back again.

But in moments of joy, in moments when one is celebrating, you want nothing more than to be

surrounded with the people whom you love and care for.

Baby Emily was having her first big ceremony since her christening and she couldn't be happier. It was her first birthday and although I would have much preferred a very low key ceremony without much noise, Elisa’s parents had been the ones who insisted that it had to be a whole thing, and since Elisa didn’t object, there wasn’t much I could say concerning the matter.

Her father had opened the ceremony with a prayer session followed by a sermon that almost

never ended, and for the millionth time that day, I was reminded of all the reasons why I didn’t

go to church. The cake cutting of the cake came next after