𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚

31 (Bonus chapter)

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Adira's current age: 28

Severus's current age: 32

Edwards current age: 30

Aaron's current age: 8

Sven (2nd child) current age: 4

Adriana (3rd child) current age: 1

Ellen(Donna's adopted daughter) age: 8

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"Hey baby."

Edward cooed, lifting my daughter out of her crib. Her hands were fisted as she thrashed happily, arms and legs flailing, the hood of her pink bunny onesie falling down to reveal her grin. Edward cooed in adoration as she squealed at him, kicking in excitement as he held her from under the arms. Her raven hair swaying a little and green eyes looking around while thrashing before turning her attention back to her uncle.

Sven and Aaron were occupied trying to sneak into Severus's study, to see all the 'cool' work their father did. Edward had mistakenly leaked their occupation and ever since then the two chipmunks had been following their father everywhere. Aaron had gone as far as to suggest that his occupation was the reason Severus dressed so cool.

I heard the pitter patter of two feet followed by the sound of someone shushing it. I strained my ears and heard Aaron whispering.

"shhhh, don't stomp on the ground. Momma will catch us if you do."

I heard the adorable 'hmph' of my second son as I pictured a pout at his pink lips, silver eyes narrowed and blonde hair matted from rolling on the ground in attempts to avoid being seen.

"Hurry before dad gets back, gimme the keys."

I heard another rustle of keys before the hushed stomps of my clearly offended baby followed. Deciding that Edward was mature enough to deal with Adriana on his own, I excused myself and slowly crept across the hall.

"I'm sorry okay, now stop making that face."

Aaron sounded guilty as he spoke, and I had to stop from giggling as Sven's grin came into view for me to see. Aaron's green eyes were narrowed and raven hair matted as he noticed the mischievous smile on his younger brothers lips. It seemed that my second oldest had picked up my habit to make people apologize with pouts and tears. A tactic that I used on either my husband or my brother-in-law.

I watched as Aaron did a quick sweep of his left and right before inserting the key and turning it, a soft click followed. Aaron hesitated, turning around and looking at Sven, who was also in the middle of nervously shifting from foot to foot.

"I don't think we should do this."

Sven nodded quickly to his older Brothers statement and pointed to the door that had slowly parted. The afternoon sun lit up Severus's study and in all honesty, I snuck in more often than not.

I stifled a laugh when I realized what the two of them would have had to do to get the keys from Edwards coat. Since it was December, a thick cover of ice had consumed our city. Making the temperature drop to 2-5 degree celcius. Another reason why everyone was tucked in warm clothes and long coats.

Edward had to take off his coat upon entering since the central heating system had kept our houses temperature normal. Severus had it upgraded a few years back, for the sake of our children and to avoid the constant cold I seemed to easily catch.