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"Adair, don’t give hiether," Ada her eyes She looked around until she saw Elizabeth Elizabeth stood and she and Gavriel walked over to her

Adelaide gave her a hug as well and stood back "In case you haven’t figured it out, these are my sons, Adam, Adair and Ben This is my mate, Byron and you’ve met my squire, Marius"

Elizabeth nodded to the ave courtly bows and Ben winked at her flirtatiously Gavriel bared his fangs at the prankster

Ben edged behind his older brother Adair sighed but acted like the shield that his brother intended hi from ear to ear wrapped an arm around Meryn "I think I knohy you’re here Mother"

Adelaide turned to look at her son She took in his wide-open smile and the joy in his eyes Her hands flew to her ave a low cry She raced over and pulled Meryn into her ar

"She is, isn’t she? Oh, Byron!" Adelaide eeping tears of happiness as she turned to her mate, Meryn still in her arms

"Yes, she is" Aiden looked at his father his own eyes a bitto be a Grandfather," he announced

Aiden’s father surprised thenified shout and whooped loudly He went to Marius, as beaed around under the towel that held the cookies to pull out what looked to be a very old bottle of scotch

"This calls for a celebration!" He shouted his cheeks red and his eyes bright Beside hi their brother on the back The unitat each other as they had already known the joyous news

Byron waved thelasses Elizabeth sat with Meryn and Adelaide on the sofa as the men toasted and celebrated Gavriel turned to her and sht thattheir child

"This festive at to be able to ?" Adelaide asked the warriors

All of the men except Colton nodded "I promised my e sigh "I’llit sound like an epic tragedy Darian ian to torment him about the food he wouldand turned to her daughter "Oh Meryn, you couldn’t have given us a better solstice present I wasn’t sure earlier when you showed up at the sewing circle Your scent had changed but I wasn’t sure if that was because you had put on the amulet frorinned

"Speaking of presents" Elizabeth s around the keystones all day but had forgotten to give Meryn hers, now she could give them both to their neners

She dropped the keystones into their hands

"It’s so pretty What is it?" Meryn asked

"It’s a keystone My fathers had them made for me when I was sixteen, by then it had become pretty apparent that I was naturally accident-prone They keystones are connected to the pendant that I’ If I’m ever in trouble or hurt, I rotate the pendant and it sends out an alert to anyone with a keystone So if you see this stone flash that ht need your help," she explained