Cage and Catch took Knox and Kohl for the day. They're going to Cage's house to help with horse's and maybe get to ride one. Which makes me nervous since I'm not there but I know Cage and Catch will take care of them.

Even though Catch hasn't been back in Cage's life for long and they still have there issues to go through. It kind of seems like he's been here the whole time, because he has quickly woven into the fabrics of our lives. The boys' adore him too, the first time they called him uncle he got tears in his eyes and had to excuse himself. I think back to that day from a month ago, we had just gotten back from getting Just Tacos and came back to my house for us all to watch a movie.

I sort of felt like he could use someone to talk with then so I told Cage I would be right back, and he nodded with a knowing look in his eyes.

"Hey Catch," I sit down next to him at my kitchen island.

Catch jerks his head up at the sound of my voice, clearly wasn't expecting anyone to follow after him. He quickly wipes the evidence of his tears away.

"Hey Rory," Catch gives me a wobbly smile.

That I don't buy at all, so I just reach and hug him tightly. Catch tenses at first then his whole body relaxes and he falls into my embrace, and cries.

It's obvious no one has hugged him in years, I can imagine that the people he used to hang out with were never the hugging type. Everyone could use a hug once and awhile, I always felt there was something healing about a hug. Like it has the power to tear you apart yet put you back together to. Like you're trying so hard to stay strong and then someone just hugs you and you fall to pieces yet at the same time slowing being rebuilt.

Catch let's go of me and sits up straight about ten minutes later.

"Sorry Rory. You should go back and finish the movie I'll be fine."

"I don't know what all you have been through in your life but I want you to know we will always be here for you. That's what family is all about, having people that will support you in every decision you make and always be here if you need help or just need to talk to someone."

"Thank you, I know I don't deserve to be part of your guys family after what I put Cage through but I appreciate it. I will prove to you all that I'm different, because I really don't want to mess up not when I'm an uncle now. I really want to be a good uncle to Knox and Kohl. I want to be a person you can all be proud to know," Catch gets a look of determination on his face, I know he will do just that.

Not only that but he will be a person he can be proud of too.

I come back to the present and knock on my parents front door then go inside. I called ahead to let them know I was coming over. I've been meaning to talk to them for the past month about the she devil but we all have been busy. Plus I wanted to talk to them when young ears aren't present to eavesdrop.

At first, I was just going to forget about how Mrs. Trevor aka the she devil dated my dad but what can I say?

I'm curious.

"Mom? Dad?" I call for them, wondering where they are at in the house.

"We're in the kitchen sweetie!" Mom calls back to me, and I walk to the kitchen.

"Hey Rora bear," My Dad gets up off the stool he was sitting in and pulls me into a hug.

"Hey Dad."

His comforting smell of coffee and sandalwood invades my senses, making me just want to hug my Dad forever. To me, there is nothing more comforting. He lets me go and goes back to his stool, then pats the one next to him for me to join him.

"Sit down. We know you want to know what happened between Lucy and Me."

I have gotten so many calls since the incident, all of them wanting to know what happened and if I was okay. I would just vaguely answer them about the incident not really wanting to feed the gossip mill and would tell them that yes I was okay and somehow find a way to hang up the phone. I didn't open my bakery the day after it happened because I didn't want to be harrased at work. I mean my bakery became my sanctuary after I opened it, it's where I go when I'm having a hard time. I would drop off Knox and Kohl with Quinn, Noah, or my parents and go bake.

It's where I spent some my weekends when things just got to be a little too much.

While other moms just take a nice long hot bath, I bake.

"So you used to date the she-devil?" I cough, noticing my mistake and then correct myself. "I mean Mrs. Trevor?"

"No, I think you were right the first Aurora," Mom laughs. " She's definitely no peach that's for sure."

I make a sound of agreement, knowing better than almost anyone how true that statement is.

"The she-devil, as you like to call her, and I dated for a little bit in highschool. For a little over a month during our junior year. She wasn't so bad at first but after the one month mark she started to change. She would accuse me of looking at or flirting with other girls. I never did only talked to some girls because of school projects, she never saw it like that. I just thought that she was going through something and that's why she started to change but I quickly realized that the girl I thought I was dating wasn't the real her. She's actually manipulative and very possessive, I started to feel like I was nothing more than an object that she had to have. I wanted to break up with her after that, my friends agreed I should do cause she was getting more and more insane by the day," Dad stares out the kitchen window lost in thought, my Mom reaches across the kitchen island, where we're sitting at, grabs his hand and holds it.

My Dad looks at her with gratitude and love in his eyes.

"I tried to break up with her but that didn't go well. She became hysterical and started saying a bunch of hurtful things to me. Then it was like at the snap of someone's fingers she changed and started apologizing and saying she'll change but I knew she wouldn't so I told her again that I wanted to break up. Thankfully I took us to a dinner to break up with her, I just had a feeling that I needed to do this in public. She started to throw our plates of food and anything she could get her hands on when she realized I wasn't going to take her back. The waitress called the police and Lucy was taken away. I didn't see her for the rest of our junior year. Senior year your Mom moved to town and I was smitten with her ever since. Lucy did come back to school senior year but she never bothered me again."

I'm silent as I think about everything my Dad just said.

So the she devil hasn't been right in her mind for years? I don't find that hard to believe I just think as she got older she got better at hiding it and then at the nightmare of a dinner she just snapped. Unable to to restrain the crazy for any longer. 

No one has seen her since the bakery incident and according to Matthew someone she hired came by the house to pack up all of her stuff.

She also was the one who filed for a divorce first.

"I'm sorry you had to go through all of that Dad," I place my hand over both of theirs.

"Don't be Rora bear. Sometimes you just have to go through hard times to really appreciate the good times. I don't even think about all those bad times in highschool anymore. I've got my vocus here on the present on the love of my life, our daughter, and our grandsons. On all the good memories we have created and on all of the many more good memories we will create."

"Your father is right Aurora. We may not always have good times but when we do those always drown out the bads ones. We have been blessed with having a close family one we know will always have each other's backs. I can say with out a doubt that our lives have been perfect even with all those bad times we went through. We are so happy to have you as our daughter Aurora and we are so proud of the kind of mother your are to Knox and Kohl. I know they are both proud to have you has their mother. We love you sweetie," My mom walks around the island and pulls me into her arms.

I hug her back just as tightly as she hugs me.

Dad gets off his seat and comes and joins our hug. He stretches his ling arms around the both of us, and pulls us tightly into his chest.

My phone ringing breaks up our family hug.

I grab my phone off the counter and see that Cage is calling me, I answer it right away starting to feel worried that one of the boys' got hurt while riding the horses.

"Cage? Is everything okay? Are Knox and Kohl okay?"

"Hey, calm down Suagr everything is fine, I promise. Both Knox and Kohl are doing just fine, actually I would say they are doing better than fine. Here listen," Cage must have switched over to speaker because the sound of the boys laughter carries over the line and my entire body relaxes at know they are fine.

"Sorry just worried that one of them was hurt or something," I apologise knowing I overreacted just a little bit.

I know Knox and Kohl are as safe as can be with their Dad. I never have to doubt that I just still get worried that something will happen to them when I'm not around.

"It's fine Sugar, I was just calling to see if you wanted to come by? We got a surprise for you," I don't even have to see Cage to know he's smiling right now, both dimple fully showing I'm sure.

I look to my parents to see them both staring at me, they look like they know exactly what Cage is asking me

My mom has this I have a secret look in her eyes but she turns away from me when she sees me giving her questioning eyes, I sigh knowing if she's not going to tell me then Dad definitely won't either.

"Okay, I'll be right there."

I guess I'm going to Cage's house instead of the bakery.

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Well there's chapter thirty-three what did you think? Any idea what the surprise is? What do you want it to be? Anyhow I hope you enjoyed this chapter and have an amazing day or night!🥰

Don't forget to check out The Perfect Mistake prequal The Perfect Night if you haven't already.

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