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Two years later...

"No. Not that one. Do not put that in your mouth, Fenris," Cassy said, lifting her son off the ground and throwing the sand stained pebble he had been about to put in his mouth.

"Where is your brother?" She questioned, and he smiled at her, pulling her hair instead and giggling.

"Asher?" She called out, looking around the playground Lino had built just for his twin sons.

She heard Asher's answering giggle emerge from the other end, and a smile graced her lips when she saw Lino holding him and tickling him.

He loved them. There was no surprise there. Over the last two years, she had gotten to see sides to Lino that she had never thought she would again, after she'd lost their first child.

He was kind, loving and stern when he needed to be. Maybe scratch the last part out. When it came to the boys, there was not a single stern bone in Lino's body. All they had to do was smile at him and he would lift them up and tickle them.

Cassy