DINNER

KATRINA

I cleaned the kids up and ended up messing myself but that was fixed. We found our way to the dining hall thanks to a maid’s help. Moonstone had exquisite taste because the packhouse was like a modern palace.

‘Reminds me of Disneyworld.’

I shivered. ‘Still gives me nightmares.’

We were the first here so I sat the kids in a line and stayed beside Hilda. Hilda and Aurora were already trying to open the cloches of the trays to sneak peeks of their contents.

“Where are your manners? Can’t you two act like princesses for once?”

The two giggled but Dash composed himself like a high prince. I was about to compliment him when I saw that he had already stained his trousers with chicken wings he had earlier stolen from the not-well-covered tray in his front.

The girls looked at him and three of them ended up laughing. There was no way I was going back to change him. It was too late anyway because the triplets swarmed in.

When they said they would join us, I seemed pretty okay with it bec