97. ~Gabriella~

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It had been months since all the revelations but Rory still refused to talk to Rowan. I couldn't exactly blame her, could I? Given everything that the two of them had gone through, and all the betrayal that Rowan did, if I was in her place then I would not have even let any of us close to me or my child for taking his side.

But Rory had forgiven the rest of us and she had made me the buffer when it came to meetups between Ki and Rowan. Rory did not want to meet Rowan but she was not selfish to take away the father-daughter time.

But today, their meeting was inevitable. It was Kiara Lewis-Keller's half birthday and my beautiful darling niece was asleep in my arms.

"I can't blow any more balloons!" Kevin whined.

Zoe walked out of the kitchen and smacked him on his head. "You talk as if you are manually blowing them up with your mouth. The pump is doing all the job."

"Then you do it!"

"Will you do the cooking then?"

"It's not as if you can cook to save y