Chapter 27 2 % +20 ) Knightly's words hang over me heavily . The twins got over it pretty fast , but the truth has me on edge . The day went by slowly . I finished as much work as I could while Knight played with them . Tessa and Maria took them outside to go horseback riding again , and now that they're bathed and sleeping , I have time to work on Aryie's fairy princess dress . I took the trunk Maria almost opened out onto the balcony to set up . I missed cool nights like this away from the city . There's a bite of salt in the air and it's almost comforting to be this close to home . I make sure my portable sewing machine has working batteries and get to work on the wings . " Phoebe , " I almost jump out of my skin looking around . " Down here , " I lean forward to see Knightly below . " What are you doing ? " " I'm being sneaky . What are you doing ? " " Same thing , " he laughs . " Lean against the rail , " " Why ? " I ask and do as he asks . I cover my mouth when he jumps up and lands in a crouch next to me . " Oh , " " What's all this ? " he takes a seat . " It's Ayrie's fairy princess dress for her un - birthday , " " Her what ? " he grins . I groan . " Okay , " I say pinning the wings down . " For their birthday this year , they wanted a Shark Boy and Lava Girl birthday party and I delivered . But , one of the other moms had a princess tea party thing for her daughter so all the little girls from their schoolwent to her party and only the boys came to ours . " Ayrie spent the whole day watching Alice and Wonderland movies in her room dressed as Lava Girl . I asked her if she wanted to get dressed in one of her princess dresses and go there , but she was upset . " So , I asked her what I could do to make her feel better and she asked if she could have an un - birthday y so she wouldn't have to share themes with Aizen anymore and she could have all the princess parties she wants , " " That is so cute , " he chuckles . " I agreed and I asked her what date would be more suited for her and picked July Twenty - Six , " " Why that day ? " " It's the day the original Alice In Wonderland movie was released in Nineteen fifty - one , " " That's in seven days ," I've always wondered why the twins were so ahead of their age , but the way he reacts to what I'm saying tells me that it's completely normal for them to be that way . The biggest reason why we were let into the private school was because they passed some crazy intellect tests . A lot of things are starting to add up . " Right . And since we're in Cali I want to take her to Disneyland , " I nod . " I love everything about that story , " he smiles . " Let me see the dress , " I laugh and sit back to show him the mannequin . The dress is complete . It's the wings I'm having trouble with . Ayrie is a watercolor fairy princess and I want her wings to match her personality perfectly . I just didn't want to use plastic for it . Before leaving Paris I found the perfect shades of green and yellow to make them . " How did you learn how to do this ? " he asks touching the bottom of the dress . No one has ever asked me that and I myself am caught off guard with the emotions that surge forward . " Hey , " he places his hand on my back . " I didn't mean- " " No , no , " I laugh at how stupid that was , I look up to blink away the tears . " No one has ever asked me that before , " 1/2 邮寄 2 % 粉 +20 ) Chapter 27 " Oh , " he smiles . " You don't have to tell me , " " If I tell you . Will you tell me about your Dad ? " the question catches him off guard and he stares at me for a bit before he agrees . I sit back to lean against the metal bars behind me . " My mom died when I was two . My dad said she was sick but he married his mate weeks after , He was a really good dad at first . That's the memory of him that keeps me from completely hating him for what they did , but after my brother Manny was born , things changed . " Melissa , my stepmother hated me . That was never a secret , but after Manny was born her aggression worsened , I was ten . During full moons , she would go into my room and fuck all my things up . She would tear everything apart and I didn't understand . " So , my dad moved me to the basement and he would lock me in there two days before the full moon and he wouldn't let me out until two days after . All my mom's things were in the basement . She was a seamstress and there were these beautiful sewing machines and rolls upon rolls of beautiful fabric , yarn , and thread . " I didn't know her and we didn't have any pictures because Melissa got rid of it all , but it made me feel like I knew her . I got really good at making my own clothes . My friends at school and in the reservation would pay to make their dresses and outfits for formals and dates . It's how I got out of there , " " I'm so sorry , " he says rubbing my I don't know what it is about his touch that calms me and I don't feel as vulnerable as I thought I would be . It's weird because I've always had trouble connecting with people . I want him to know everything when I've tried so hard to bury those memories so no one would know the ugly things in my past . " I told him about the twins , " I roll my eyes . " He called them bastards and he told me I was just like my useless mother , " " I could kill him for speaking to you like that ," he growls . I laugh because the jolt of fear that just went through my body makes me . After the story Maria gave me , he might actually do it . " That's not necessary . Being upset by someone as irrelevant as him just continues to let him win . There is no point in me being miserable over them while my so - called father sits in his big ass mansion with his bitch ass cat wife that probably has a brush tongue not giving me a second thought . " It's not exactly perfect , but I love my life . It's taken me to pretty cool places . It took me to you and it's given me my beautiful kids . I love my job so much . If I would have let them win , I wouldn't be who I am . I wouldn't be a millionaire before thirty and I wouldn't be acting CEO of a branch of one of the biggest fashion companies in the world . So , fuck them , " " That is a beautiful way of looking at things , " he smiles and sits back against the glass . " If you don't want to talk about your biological dad , I'd love to hear about Freddy . He seems like a good man , " 2/2 田 AD Comment