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Chapter One

Seamus Finn eyed his cousin with a on the floor in his dark blue uniform, a bewildered expression on his usually stoic face and his long, lanky legs twisted into a position that looked anything but natural

And he earing a tiara

Penny beauest “Uncle Younger’s pretty, isn’t he, Daddy?”

“I’m not pretty”

Seah

“Don’t say that” She reached up and adjusted his tiara, patting his cheek kindly before handing him an empty pink teacup “You’re a princess Do you want so a praxit party”

“Practice party,” he corrected auto hard to keep his amusement in check

“That’s what I said”

Sololance “Yes Join us, Seaet, since someone told her she has to mind her manners this weekend if she wants to play with her birthday presents tomorrow I’m sure she has an extra tiara for you”

“Believe ’s crown and they’d picked it out together, because there were sos men shouldn’t talk about with other ers they were “Where’s your brother, Penny? Didn’t he want to play?”

Her ive him whiplash She threw herself onto her s for all to see “In his roo smart”

Being s under all their noses for a while now, but this year he’d raised the bar In his first week of high school Seamus had been called in to discuss the possibility of his son skipping a grade After going over the pros and cons at hoht, he’d let Jake make the final decision And so his freshht

Near the end of the year, his school counselor had sent hirae credits It seee, but he’d been so excited Seamus couldn’t deny hio, and was already getting ahead on his reading for the upco school year