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"No. Well, not unless they had one of my mates. Then I'd do anything to save them."

"Good thing your mates are so powerful, then, isn't it?" Aiden smiled. "Besides, it's a moot point. The luna of Five Fangs has better things to do than run around the kingdom to check in on packs."

"Maybe once you and your mates retire," James suggested with a smirk. "I can't see those alphas kicking their heels up and doing nothing in their senior years."

That gave me food for thought. I could almost picture it, the six of us with graying hair and surrounded by our children and grandchildren, only leaving Pippi's Place to act as inspectors once in a while...

"We did one more thing, too." James cleared his throat. "We asked your grandma, Alberta, if we could move Mom's remains to rest next to your father's. We even had a headstone made for them."

Aiden held out his phone again and showed me a gray tombstone that read, "Logan and Naomi Everleigh" with their birth and death dates. It had a garland of flowers engraved along the top and going down the sides, and I knew that was for our mom. She'd loved flowers of all kinds.

"Oh." My eyes stung, and I folded my hands over my nose and mouth. "Oh, my heart."

"Are you okay with this?" Aiden asked, rubbing one hand up and down my back.

"Yes." I nodded and blinked away the tears. "It's perfect. They deserve to finally be together."

"That's what we thought, too," James said.

"Hey."

A heavy body plunked across from us, startling me, and my brothers' bodies tensed. I raised my eyes to see Cole had joined us, and I tilted my head in question.

"So, uh," my bear-like mate cleared his throat, "we're playing football, and me and the boys want you on our team, so come on before they start without us."

"I don't want to play football!" I held up my hands in protest. Those giants would squish me in seconds!

"Not you, shortcake," Cole snorted as he stood up. "Your brothers. You have a different job. Ethan's on Liam's team, so they have Millie and Leyly cheering for them. We need you to cheer for us."

"I'm sure Callie and Keeley will, too, if James and Aiden are playing," I said as I got to my feet.

"Yeah, but Evan's cheering for Liam's team. We want an equal amount of support."

"Where's Eden?" I asked as the four of us walked along.

"She's playing for Liam, which is why Evan's cheering for them."

"What?" I came to a dead stop. "Eden'splaying football with the boys, andEvanis cheering with the girls?"

"Don't get caught up in antiquated gender roles, baby sister." Aiden rolled his eyes.

"Anti-what?"

"It means any gender can do any activity, honey," Cole explained as he took my hand and towed me toward the open field where a dozen or so people had gathered. "A boy can cheer and a girl can be a quarterback."

"Oh. Okay. Yeah, you're right." I grinned. "I bet Eden slaughters you guys!"

"Hey!" James and Cole growled, and Aiden said, "You're supposed to be onourside, Posy!"

"Sure, sure." It was my turn to roll my eyes. "I wonder if Millie is going to play her trumpet. If so, I need something to make a lot of noise, too!"

"I got you, Posy."

I looked up to see Wyatt running up to me with a cowbell in his hand. With a grin, I took it and tried it out, wincing at the din it made as I shook it.

"Do I want to know why you even have this?" I asked as I raised an eyebrow at him.

He leaned down to whisper in my ear.

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