Chapter 5
The day dawned clear as a fairytale, keen and clean and poised on the brink. Sunshine frolicked up over the vineyards to greet cool wintry air and fluttery gauzy ribbons, white and silver and deep reds and crimsons, garnets and scarlets, fire-colors that wove together and danced. Justin’s stepmother and James had done something that made the flames appear real, glowing, lifelike, even decently warm though not scorchingly hot. Kris, having been tugged away from his other half for photos with Reggie, kept trying to spot his imminent husband and couldn’t.
Justin’s middle siblings appeared at his elbows, forming a dark-haired identical frame. Most of the family looked alike, though Justin’s siblings came minus a demon parent and with the addition of extra Filipino DNA; they all had
