Page 24 of My Haven
Kendrick just crossed his arms over his chest and sat back glaring at them.
Caiden realized that Kendrick had always looked after the twins and now he had usurped his place with them. “Ha! Nowyou know how I have felt all these years when you doted on Amelia.”
He turned to the twins. “Abuse this shamefully, so we can both aggravate him.”
They just blinked.
Meryn pulled out her laptop. “Before Law gets here and starts overloading me with information, who else are we adding to the kill list? I have that Karl dude and Andrei.”
Caiden turned to look at his unit, their eyes were wide at Meryn’s cavalier murder plans.
“Meryn, you’re having a boy, right? One like our commander?” Kyran asked.
“Aiden wants a girl kidlet,” she informed them.
Tristan looked from their mother, to Meryn, to Meryn’s rounded belly.
Caiden sighed. “What’s one more?”
Meryn looked up. “Are you free tomorrow night?”
He had to stop and think. “I believe so, why?”
Meryn wiggled in her chair. “So, my idea for your mate, is to open one of those flash restaurants that are super popular right now. Word goes out in secret channels, that a chef is serving is some random location and invites are scarce. We’ll invite her and you will be point of contact.”
“Two problems I see with this. One, we don’t have a restaurant and two we don’t have a chef,” he replied holding up his fingers.
She held up a finger. “One, I had Rex buy us a place this afternoon. The Éire Danu warriors are making it look suitably clean, decorated and secret-like.” She held up another finger. “Two, Leon and Aeson are two of the best non-squire cooks I know, they will be creating a set menu, and the guys can serve it.”
“She’s right sir, Aeson has been cooking for the Éire Danu warriors for over a millennia, if anyone can pull this off it’s him,” Aedan added.
“You organized all this since I called Amelia?” he asked, incredulously.
“Well, yeah. That’s what you’re supposed to do right? Help family?” she asked, sounding small. She stared down at her laptop.
“Oh, my fucking god, I can’t,” Tristan whispered.
He and Kyran scooped her up and began running around the kitchen. “Ours! You live here now!”
Caiden placed a hand over his heart. This tiny girl-child had worked miracles just to give him a chance to meet his mate. He turned to Aiden. “Sorry, Commander. You’re not getting her back.”
“Like hell! Give her here!” Aiden said, chasing Kyran and Tristan who were laughing like lunatics.
Kendrick stood and walked over to him. “She needed this.”
Caiden ground his teeth, thinking of all Amelia had told him about Meryn’s childhood. “She could have been raised here.”
“She was safer where she was.”
Aiden wrestled Meryn away from his brothers and growled at them to stay away. Meryn batted at his chest. “Aiden! Don’t growl, they’ll hate me.”
Aiden stopped immediately and looked down at his mate. “No, they won’t.”
Caiden walked over and met his commander’s eye. Sighing, Aiden handed Meryn over to him. Caiden sat down with Meryn sitting sideways across his lap. “Meryn, you are our sister…” he started.
“Not really,” she whispered. “That’s why I have to help, so you’ll kinda overlook the cousin thing like Amelia does.”
Kyran and Tristan knelt on either side. “That’s not how that works in this family, Meryn.” Kyran replied.
