Epilogue

EPILOGUE

Cassandra

" R iah! Get down from there, you could fall!" I shout at my daughter, as she swings like a monkey on the ropes hanging off the sail. She is always climbing something, that girl.

"I will get her," I hear Jacob say behind me with an amused tone. I smile as he pulls himself up, grabbing our daughter who laughs and jumps on his back. He climbs back down, putting the naughty little five-year-old on the deck. She grins up at me, her dark-blue eyes proclaiming innocence like I didn't just find her climbing again. She looks so much like me in some ways, with her brown hair in braids, and her changed one mark on her forehead. Riah's is a crown, and I was shocked when she was born with it.

"Dinner is ready, and you know your dads will be mad if you are late to dinner again," I tell her, and she huffs, rolling her little eyes at me. I try not to laugh as she picks up her little pirate hat, putting it on, and stomping off.

"Stubborn, brave, and fearless. Who does our daughter remind me of?" Jacob asks, and I laugh, shrugging.

"No idea," I say, wrapping my arms around him. I watch the water sway in the distance, the calm peacefulness of the sea, and the sight of Vivo flying around Onaya which we have just left.

"This is everything I could have ever dreamed of," I say quietly, and Jacob kisses my forehead as my bond flares to life with happiness and joy.

"Everything was worth the fight, for the life we now have."