Chapter 20: The Birthday Hunt

The sun shone brightly through the windows, a very excited little boy raced into his mother's room to be unpleasantly surprised by the sight of his father. Cassias was not a fan of his father. He found him to be rude and loud. Alistar was quicker to anger and discipline compared to Layla. Cassias was not very good at walking on eggshells and Alistar had the patience of a toddler. Layla was always in the middle. Alistar's failure as a parent would be his ultimate undoing, he just didn't know it yet.

But Cassias didn't care about that on this day. He had only one focus, one goal - to wake his parents for it was his sixth birthday.

He ran towards the bed as fast as his little legs could carry him and jumped as high as he could. He landed on Alistar's stomach, waking both of his parents.

"Cass!" Alistar groaned in pain.

Cassias crawled over his father and wiggled between his parents. "Wake up!" He shouted.

"We are awake," Layla sighed. She very much didn't want to be. She was neve