Chapter Twenty

The sound of laughter filled the room with palpable joy. Marcel was telling the kids a story as they ate dinner and they were as attentive as a cat would be to their prey. He complimented the food they made for him a few times as he told them an engaging story about his time in the army.

Hailey listened too, laughing at Marcel's obvious exaggerations.

Abigail sat in silence, content. Her and Marcel had decided to give the kids an explanation as to why Marcel had not been around the last few years, and the only idea they could come up with... is that he was fighting in a war... which was partly true.

Marcel had gone to military school for a year but he definitely did not fight in any wars.

"That's so cool." Elise eyes widened at something Marcel said. Abigail was not paying too much attention to the conversation. She was conscious of the time, she had some emails to go over and still had to call Zedra Ashton to finalize their deal.

"So, here I was alone, hungry and tired when all of