*Summer*

Three weeks later, we get married on a Tuesday in a small church with far less pomp and circumstance than I am accustomed to, but one far better suited to my new station in life and much more to my liking.

With only those we consider family gathered around them. Kai and Anna, Gina

and Thor, Aaron, Beast, Leah, and their mum, Mae Tempest. My brother and his

wife joins too. I didn’t send word to my mother. I plan to never contact the hateful woman again.

Although Braze does report to me that when my article ran in the Black rock Gazette the previous week, our mother had...