Since she had decided to keep the children with her for the weekend, she had agreed to take them all to the zoo and ice cream for some much needed and well-deserved escape from the house. It wasn’t they didn’t have plenty of fun things to do on their estate, but sometimes it was good fun to explore the human world and embrace the mundane.
However, her pre-teen charges were beginning to demonstrate their desire for independence and were pushing buttons they shouldn’t push. While she had repeated multiple times for everyone to walk together and to not go so far ahead, excitement was getting the better of all of them. The oldest ones were no exception.
If Drake Delaney had seen her now, he would run for the hills with her huge brood of charges and their exuberant natures. She cursed him for
