There was a knock on the kitchen door just as Maya and Bryson were finishing up with the rest of their homework, and we looked that way and stared at it with wide eyes.

"Who is knocking on the door?" Maya asked and cocked her head while she studied the door through narrowed eyes. "And why?"

"I don't know," Charlie replied and stood. He signalled for me to sit back down when I was about to stand with him, and I hesitated before I did what I was told to do. "Stay seated, and I will go check it out," he said.

Again, there was another knock on the kitchen door, and Charlie walked toward the door, looking more like a Guardsmen than the man that had been sitting at the table with us, watching me help the kids do their homework.

I stayed seated, but I couldn't help but become tense and worried about the older male who had seen more than I could ever imagine.

Charlie opened the door when the person was about to knock again, and the Guardsmen side of him disappeared as quickly as it came when he realized that it wasn't a threat. "Oh, hello," he said and offered the person a warm smile. "How are you?"

"Hi..." the person, Seraphina, said, and my heart skipped a beat while my niece looked at me with wide eyes. "I am sorry, am I at the right house? I am looking for Cass."

"You are at the right house," Charlie said with a quick nod before he cleared his throat and shifted on his feet. "However, why are you knocking in the back door and not the front door?"

"I just did? I don't know. I felt this pull that told me to come this way a- Never mind, I don't know. Who are you?"

"Charles," Charlie replied, " but I g-"

"Wait, I thought Charlie was your real name," Maya said, interrupting Charlie from saying another word. "Has it been Charles this whole time?"

Charlie bit back an annoyed sigh and leaned his head back, looking toward the sky. "Do not be like your mother, Maya Rose."

"And why not?" she asked and raised an eyebrow in question. There was a small smirk on her face while her eyes sparkled with mischief and amusement. "Did she call you "Uncle Charles" when she found out that your name was Charles?"

"Well, only you four call him "Uncle Charlie," Maya," I said before I shrugged and grimaced. "Or the twins will call him "Uncle Charlie" when they can actually talk."

"Wait, twins?" Seraphina asked from the door. She furrowed her brows and cocked her head while she looked at us. "What twins?"

"My twins," Cass said and walked into the kitchen with two babies in her arms followed by a grumpy looking Julian. "Charlie, let her in. I do not know why you are blocking her from coming inside. Also, Seraphina, meet Dominic and Donovan. They have been kidnapped and werd just returned to me." She rolled her eyes playfully with a small scowl on her face, even though an amused smile wanted to appear.

"They have not been kidnapped, Cassandra Marie," Charlie said and backed away from the door, gesturing for Seraphina to come into the room. "Your Uncle and Aunt wanted them to spend a few days with them so that they can "teach them the LeBlanc ways.""

"But they aren't LeBlancs," she said and walked toward the kitchen table with Seraphina just standing in the doorway looking at us with wide eyes. "And neither am I."

"But you have LeBlanc blood running through your veins," Charlie said, and Cass shrugged and grimaced. He walked over to where we kept the baby seats and grabbed two of them. "And they are considered LeBlancs."

My cousin rolled her eyes and scowled, pressing her lips into a thin line. She didn't say a word, earning a small smirk from Charlie while he set the chairs near the kitchen table.

Charlie looked toward Seraphine and smiled. "And that is how you know you won an argument with her," he said. He looked at Julian and cleared his throat, shifting on his feet. "But why are you so grumpy, Your Highness?"

Julian scowled and narrowed his eyes while he looked at Charlie, and Charlie raised an eyebrow in question, biting back a small smirk. "Did you just call me, "Your Highness," Charlie?" he asked.

"I did," he confirmed and nodded. "You are my prince, are you not?" he asked and cocked his head while he studied me.

Maya frowned and looked at Julian, furrowing her brows while she cocked her head. "When did you become a prince, Uncle Julian?" she asked, and I had to bite my lip to keep myself from laughing.

My cousin coughed back a snort while she placed her children into their high chairs, and Julian gasped in shock while he stared at Maya.

"Excuse me?" he asked and placed his hand over his mouth with his voice growing higher pitched. "Did you just ask me that?"

Maya giggled and nodded. "Yes," she said, biting back a small laugh. "I did ask when you became a prince."

"When I was born?" Julian asked and raised an eyebrow in question. "I became a prince when I was born."

Maya frowned and stared at him blankly. She slowly blinked before she looked at Cass and then back at him, not saying a word.

"Cass?" Julian asked and looked at her.

"Don't look at me," she said while she finished putting the twins into their high chairs and then went to get them something to snack on. "She has grown up with only knowing you as her Gamma."

"But I was a Prince before I was the Gamma," he argued. "Why doesn't she know that I am a prince?"

"And who says that she doesn't?" Cass asked and raised an eyebrow in question. She walked back over to the twins with their snacks.

Julian looked between the two of them with wide eyes and an opened mouth. He didn't say a word while he did so, and for a minute, I couldn't tell if he was being serious or not.

Maya squirmed beside me, biting back a giggle. She had a huge shit-eating grin on her face while she watched her uncle move his head back and forth between the two of them.

Bryson bit back a groan and looked at Seraphina. "Welcome to the madhouse," he said. "Where are saneness leaves."

Cass snorted and shook her head at him before she placed the food in front of the twins, earning a happy squeal between the two of them while they started to eat. "Who says that we have been sane anyway, Bryson?" she asked and raised an eyebrow in question.

Bryson shrugged and grimaced, not saying a word.

"Hmph." She bit back a small smirk before she turned her attention to Seraphina. "Now, is there anything that I can do for you?" she asked and raised an eyebrow in question. "Is anything wrong with the members of your pack?" She furrowed her brows and cocked her head while concern flashed through my eyes.

"Uh..." Seraphina blinked and blinked again. She closed her mouth and shook her head, clearing her throat without saying a word.

Cass looked at me and raised an eyebrow in question, and I shrugged and grimaced because I had no idea what was wrong with her. "Hmmm..." She slowly nodded and looked at Seraphina again. "Did you want to speak with me privately?" she asked.

Seraphina hesitated before she slowly nodded. "Please?" she asked, her voice barely above a whisper. She looked at me before she looked at her again. "I need your help with some things... with my pack and other stuff..."

Cass pressed her lips into a thin line and slowly nodded. "Ok," she said before she looked at her sons, who were still eating their food while they looked at us with wide blue and gray eyes. "Ummmm...."

"We will watch the kids," Julian said, and she looked at him. He smiled and raised both eyebrows in unison. "I mean, I want to be the favorite uncle and not Justin. Unlike these two." He gestured toward both Bryson and Maya, who both grinned and looked at him innocently.

Cass hesitated before she looked between the twins and then Julian. "But..." Conflict and guilt filled her eyes, and I had a feeling that it was because she didn't want to leave them while they ate, especially since they had been gone for a couple of days.

"Go," I said and gestured toward the door. "We have the twins," I added. "They will be fine without you, especially since they have us."

Cass pressed her lips into a thin line before she slowly nodded. "Ok," she said, her voice barely above a whisper before she looked at Seraphina. "Let's go," she said.

And without a single glance back, Cass and Seraphina left without much of a word between the two of them or toward us.

Oh, Goddess...