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She pulled back, smoothing down their hair, gazing into their bright, earnest faces. “I’m so happy to see you both,” she said, choking on the words, “I love you both very, very much!”
“We love you too,” Danny mumbled into her shirt.
“We love you,” Logan echoed, his arms tight around her torso.
“Come on now, boys, give Cassie some space to breathe,” Felix said, gently, kneeling down beside them. The boysdislodged from Cassie’s embrace and clambered into their father’s arms with similar enthusiasm.
“Alright,” Felix said as one of the boys began to snivel rather loudly, “it’s alright. We’re all okay. Why don’t we go inside and have some pancakes, hmm? Does that sound like a good idea?’
The boys nodded furiously, grabbing their bags and scrambling to their feet, each taking one of Cassie’s hands to drag her into the house with them.
Felix chuckled softly, closing the door behind them. “I’ll get a fresh batch on.”
“So what actually happened? Was it bad guys? Did they get you?”
“Uncle Nick said the whole pack went to rescue you. Is that true?”
“Are you okay? Were you scared? I bet you weren’t scared?”
“How did you escape?”
She guided them to the kitchen table, her ears ringing with all their questions. “Well, actually,” she said, pressing a kiss to each of their heads, “I was able to escape becausesomebodywas clever enough to teach me how to pick locks!”
The boys looked at her in awe.
“What! No way, was that us?”
“I told you that would come in handy, Uncle Dane says—”
“—should know how to, it’s basic survival—”
“—use a paperclip? Or something else, Uncle Dane says any small bit of metal will—”
“—have to show us what you did!”
She grinned, her heart swelling with love at the two boys across from her. It was funny. In such a small space of time, they had become her entire world. She would do anything for them, she realized. She would give them the best parts of her childhood. Hiking and camping, and stargazing. She would teach them all the constellations, big and small. She would teach them how to use her mother’s telescope.
Anything to keep those bright smiles on their faces.
“Cassie will have plenty of time to show you how she can pick locks,” said Felix, placing a plate down in front of Cassie. “She’s going to be sticking around for quite a while.”
Logan rolled his eyes. “Well,duh, she’s our nanny!”
Cassie glanced at Felix with a smile, and he winked back at her.
“Actually, boys, that’s precisely the thing we’d like to talk to you about.”
Epilogue - Felix
Felix gave a contented sigh, stretching his legs out in front of him, enjoying the heat from the fire.
Well, trying to enjoy it, at any rate. It would probably be much more relaxing if Rick weren’t pacing in front of it like a caged tiger, clutching his phone with enough force that Felix was surprised the damn thing didn’t break.
“There’sanothercell,” he hissed, “they keep popping up every day, like fucking rodents! I’ll exterminate every last one of them!”
“Just say when and where, and we’ll be there,” replied Felix, with a not-so-subtle grin of pure savagery.
As it turned out, the debt collectors who had captured Cassie weren’t the only ones in the organization. Felix had suspected as much. A group powerful enough to take down a shifter, with ties all over the country, and their fingers in about as many illegal pies as was possible…of course there were more of them.
