Chapter 203
A pink child’s chair is in the center of the playroom. Calth is singing at the front desk of Dee’s salon. She has everything out to do hair and nails. No red allowed. Caleb had a fit when he saw it was one of the colors she had. He threw a tantrum that even Chance work beeloof
He yelled ines Caius 3 face that Dee will not be wearing red until she’s twenty–fire. Cassins agreed and them out the color. ||
Dee looks over the sign in sheet meticulously. She looks up at Caleh, then back at the sheet, taps the pen to paper. ||
Uncle Caleb She looks around at the pretend crowd, and he rakes his hard. |
Tease take seat.” Destructs him where to sit and proceed to take his hair out of the bunting it fall to his shoulders.
“what are we doing today?” She’s got the ends of his hair between her fingers, giving a slinke of her head, not liking what she’s seeing Real sissors are in her other hand because her unde doesn’t care if the ends are a little uneven. He makes it work on h
“I was thinking a trim, and I need my nails done.” He looks at his bars mads; the polish already has worn off she grabs a hand, inspects each mad then the other one. [
Your mess.” He agrees with her.]
the sups and snips, too much from the right, not enough from the left, but to her, its a masterpiece that her uncle praises Nails are next, a light pink that bleeds into the skin surrounding has cuticles. She makes her time, he is patient, and before long he’s all done and in my turn
Perfect.” Her voice is ed, she is getting better and better with each appointment.
That will be twenty dears.” She holds out her hand, and Caleb puts a fake twenty i
yin it with tip. I’ve signed in as well, and Dee looks over her list before calling my name, “Specs.“]
The rest of the morning is spent in the salon, while Chan and Kan play with their toys. They use to sit for hair orna
Our games switch from salom to school to making a spaceship out of the box the new frides came in. We draw windows and buttons on the inside so we can blast off into space after we eat our lunch imade it.]]
One by one they each lay down sleepy–eyed, before I curl up beside them at the entrance. Afternoon naps at their best.
When I come out from the cardboard box, Caius is sitting on the aran, and he’s taken a shower and trimmed his beard. He’s got on a few shirts that stretch surely across his chest. Clean jeans, not joggers. He even is wearing socks. Ie’s still wearing his
bottom step. I’m not sure how long he’s been there, le cases his sketchbook and holds it in his hand. Itis hair is pulled into lagers, but something different. I notice immediately
I’m going on the afternoon. His words bubble up like champagne in a flute on New Year’s Eve when everyone cheers to a better New Year. I never thought while raising my glass this year that this would be his year.
Raising my head quickly, I push the glasses up the bridge of my nose.
Uncle Caleb is taking all of you to his house. The way Cassa talks, this makes me fool included. I’mnothinchild[]
The pups squeal, before racing up the stairs, he grabs each one of them, maging his cheek against theirs.
1 te back tonight,” he affirms when he turns to walk up the stairs. I get the view of material shifting with the way the muscles on his back flex and relax
Kya and Dallas are there, along with Carson Cara and Cotton are also standing at the door. contom presses himself against the wall as Caleb goes by, he looks the same way he looked the first time Caleb entered Bela’s home. He hold the scent of Bala’s spread legs on her mouth, and she held contom’s smell down her throat Wary, alen, ready to run really East because Caleb’s claws were out and to were all his teeth before Bela bad to get her out to channel Cath away from Cottom’s neck. []
11 dose my wprs, I can still bear Belac telling Caleb how he ruined here when they first met. That everything she has but is for nothing because it’s expected for her to be marked and taken away by him. The hatred heard from her was always reserved for her brother, never anyone else. It’s the first time ever saw her cry Caleb had no idea what to do when she started crying. He opened up his arms, and lactold him to go away for now. She cried all night long; I was the one to hold her for the very first time. I held her until the fell asleep. She woke up assigned to her fate, shoulderg bent, not the leader the was the day before. When her brother told her what was going to happen she spot in his face, and they fought it’s not the first fight L witnessed between them, but I felt as if it would be their very last ||
