Chapter 351
"This is Mara Bune. She is ten and the oldest of the four. Kila is somewhere finishing her lessons she ran away from to race with Mara. This is Silas. The only boy we have right now," Amelia said, holding Silas’s hand to guide him to Cyrus since Silas was wary. "Aydan is the youngest. She is with Killian right now so if you want to meet her, you would have to stay a little longer."
Amelia hoped that to see Aydan, Cyrus would stay in the castle. She did not want him to return to the underworld any time soon. They needed to have a reunion with Gina to sit around and talk like old times.
Cyrus looked at the children before him, trying to place what features they got from their mother and which ones they unfortunately got from their father. He saw more of Killian in Mara, but Silas made him think only of Amelia.
"You are a mother of four," Cyrus said, unable to wrap his mind around Amelia having many children. "It doesn’t feel like so much time has passed for you to have four children who are big. I thought I would be introduced to the firstborn I heard little about."
"Well, you were in the underworld so you wouldn’t have noticed that ten years have gone by. Children, please excuse us for a moment. I need to talk to Cyrus alone. You can go eat the cake we left behind, but that is all. Do not send a maid anymore. I will know if you do it," Amelia said, keeping an eye on Silas so he knew she meant him.
Too much treats in his stomach and she would not be able to get him to go to bed on time.
Silas wanted to stay with his mother, but now that he was alone with Mara, he could try asking for help with flying. They didn’t need to race so they wouldn’t be getting into any trouble. He only needed to be shown how to keep himself steady.
Amelia watched Mara and Silas walk away with Silas talking about flying again when he had already said he didn’t want to do it anymore. She knew not to believe him.
"It is strange that you are a mother now. It feels like yesterday you were not interested in hearing about marriage from your father and hardly interested in children. I’ve missed a lot," Cyrus said, regretting not coming sooner.