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"Mommy, will father like it?" Aurora asked over the counter as she watched her mother spread whipped cream over the cake. Observation Aurora had asked her mother to dye the whipped cream and it turned green.
Elain looked at Aurora with a smile.
"Of course my little sunshine will. He likes everything you do." Elain was still patting her cake, but looking at Aurora in fear that she would fall off the counter. Not that her daughter would lose her balance on top, but she still terrified her daughter in high places.
"Mommy, what if he doesn't like it this time?"
Elain just laughed, but trying to convince Aurora that Lucien would love her.
Aurora at just 6 years old is the only child (for now) of Lucien and Elain with her red hair like her father's, but her eyes are brown like her mother's. Aurora is a lot like Elain, but what she has changed is her hair color. But she is a lovely woman, she also likes to get into trouble with her cousins at night or fall out frequently. Every time she wasn't grounded because of her grandfather Helion, who released her from any punishment her parents would give.
"Mom, we could put some flowers on top of the cake."
But one thing Aurora loves to talk about. Too much.
"Yes, but which one?"
"Roses! Can I get them in your garden?" Aurora asked.
"Yes, sunshine." Elain dropped the spatula and lowered Aurora from the kitchen counter. "But be careful not to get hurt."
"All right." Aurora hugged her mother's legs and ran out into the garden. She could have sworn Elain telling her not to run.
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Reaching the garden, Aurora climbed into the chair, grabbed her gloves so she wouldn't hurt her hands, and put them on.
Aurora had started the hunt for roses to put in the cake, but she is never satisfied that her little hands cannot hold more than 5 flowers. The girl was assigned to pick up 10 rosebuds, hop back to the kitchen, hand them to her mother, and finish the surprise for her father.
Everything started to go wrong when Aurora got distracted by a blue butterfly dropping the roses in her hands and ran after the butterfly to get to her. One girl ended up bumping into something that almost made her scream.
"What..." Said the fairy, but wait, Aurora knew that voice.
"Nyx?" Aurora looked up, there was her older cousin in his court evening clothes and some daisies and lavender. "What are you doing here?"
"My dear cousin." Nyx lowered herself to Aurora's height. "I'm just visiting this beautiful garden."
Nyx was just 14 years old, much older and much taller.
"You are lying." Aurora accused of shooting the flowers. "Nyx, my mother's flowers are in your hands, and why?"
Nyx dropped the flowers from her hand as if she hadn't been caught in the act.
"What flowers, little Aurora?" Nyx laughed. "Those books Aunt Nesta gave you are messing with your head?"
"The books aren't messing with my head!" Aurora's cheeks turn red. "Why did you take my mother's flowers without permission?" She insisted.
"Books are making you sick." Nyx laughed and Aurora made a sound like a low growl. "Are you growling at me, little Aurora? Bad idea."
"I won't apologize, just answer the question."
Nyx snorted.
"Okay, sunshine, I lost a bet with my dad and I'm picking the flowers to give to Uncle Cassian."
"Uncle Cass has a pollen allergy." Aurora slapped Nyx's leg. "This is wrong."
"But this is fun."
"But that's not funny"… Aurora lowered her head and had an idea. "You're an idiot, but with big hands."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Help me get ten roses? My hands are tiny and I can't hold more than five." Aurora smiled. "You can also ask Mom's permission to get her flowers."
"Are you okay, girl." Nyx rose and took Aurora's right hand. "Only ten roses?"
"Only ten roses." He confirmed Aurora and walked with Nyx to the roses.
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Nyx helped Aurora pick the roses into a beautiful bouquet. The little girl did the same to Nyx, only in an amount for the size of her hands and also felt sorry for her uncle Cassian.
The two left the garden with the bouquets in each hand, when they reached the kitchen, Nyx left the roses on the floor and took the bouquet from Cassian and disappeared so fast Aurora couldn't stop it. Then the girl took five roses, took them to the kitchen, left them on the table and repeated the same movement with the other roses.
"Aurora, you were late." Elain took the flowers. "I was about to go after you."
"I couldn't hold the roses so it took me a while." Aurora didn't want to talk about Nyx stealing her mother's flowers, she knew Elain would be mad, so she just hid the truth.
"You could have asked for my help."
Aurora just nodded, not wanting to pursue the matter further, she knew her mother would discover her lie.
The two of them just placed the flowers on the green cake, which looked like a garden of white roses on Aurora's head. The cake wasn't pretty, but at least I hoped her father would like it.
"When does daddy arrive to receive this cake?"
"I think it's about 20 minutes from now. In the meantime, let's clean up this whole mess and then change clothes." Elain lifted Aurora onto her lap. "What do you think?"
"Magnificent mother!" Aurora hugged Elain's neck.
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"Elain? Aurora? Where are the two?"
Lucien had arrived four minutes ago and hadn't found his mate or daughter in any of the main rooms of the house. He's already pulled the noose and nothing, he's starting to get worried.
Lucien thought about sending a letter to Feyre to find out if Elain had gone to visit Velaris, but the redhead heard a noise coming from outside and followed. Along the way, the noise got louder and there was laughter.
Upon reaching the sound of laughter, Lucien found Elain lying on the grass with Aurora lying on her chest watching the clouds. This was the best thing Lucien had ever witnessed, the two most special people in his life watching the clouds and making his daughter laugh out loud.
"Can I join you two to watch the clouds?" Lucien approached them.
Aurora was the first to get up and run toward Lucien with her arms outstretched for a hug. Lucien bent down to pick up the girl.
"Daddy, you've arrived." Aurora hugged her father and climbed into his lap. "Me and Mom made a surprise."
"Really? What a surprise?" Lucien smiled, kissing his daughter's head.
"Mommy is carrying the surprise."
Elain was arriving with a smile on her face and in her arms a green cake with white roses around her.
"A cake? It's so beautiful, were you the mother who baked it?"
"Yes!"
"Hello, husband." Elain approached her with a quick kiss on her lips. "Aurora wanted to surprise you and here it is. A beautiful green cake with roses around it."
"Did you like daddy?"
Lucien continued to smile.
"Obviously I liked it."
"So, let's eat and then we can play cloud watching or hide?"
"Anything you want Aurora." Lucien responded, but there was something different about him and his skin.
"Love, you are glowing." Elain said.
"I'm so happy that even my magic took effect. I love you both."
"We love you too." The two women replied in unison.
The three of them went to eat the cake, which is delicious according to Lucien, which still glowed, when they went to play with Aurora and Lucien didn't stop shining. Every moment with his family was happy and always left him that way.
Only Lucien, let alone Aurora, knew of another surprise to come. Elain was pregnant again and was planning how to tell them both. But for now, she's having fun with her mate and daughter. You are as happy as you ever were.
Pregnancy? Perhaps, this is history for another time.