Chapter 228 – Presents

• Scowling a bit – honestly, I’m not as much of a disaster in the kitchen as any of them imply – I settle in next to Janeen. She leans over and gives me a big smacking kiss on the cheek and I laugh, but even as I shove her away we both know that all is forgiven. Nothing to forgive, really – I’m used to my weird, chronically inappropriate sister. At least she always keeps it interesting.
• Family dinner goes off without a hitch and I’m absolutely thrilled to see it. Now that we’re comfortably settled in our own beautiful space, things start to really feel…well, normal. It’s not that it’s precisely as it was either in Kent’s mansion or in the beach house. Instead, it’s something totally new.
• But, luckily, the laughter has stayed.