Loving Ashlynn (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 54 - Lost and Found (Ansel Conrad POV) Pt.6

Hey all. About my baking skills. There was a comment... Honestly... I'm the WORST baker EVER! I swear it! I tried making a cake and it was a complete failure. I kid you not, I followed the recipe on the box, used what it said, but my cake came out like pudding and it was so gross. My mom banned me from EVER baking a cake. Like I tried to pick up one of the cake mix boxes at the store when we were shopping the other day, and you should have seen the panic in my mom's eyes. Which she promptly followed with, "you aren't thinking of baking a cake are you?"

So yeah. Last night I was more or less just sitting by while my friend did the actual baking/mixing. 

Anyways. Enjoy. 

Chapter 54 – Lost and Found (Ansel Conrad POV) Pt.6

Then. "There is something off about that family," Antone – Kalenah's father – whispered. This was not the first time that he had made such an off base comment of the Rosario family. It's something he's been saying since they joined the Den.

"That one, the young one, Taylor, she has yet to show a single emotion-" I had cut him off. "She's just a baby, Antone, she may just be in shock." I had believed myself back then, more so when we lost Silas and the twins – Amy and Simon - were just toddlers. They were sad that he wouldn't be around, and it took them a while to understand he wouldn't be coming back, especially when they still saw Samson.

"Then why does the sister and brother cry, but she on the other hand is just staring out blankly," I ignored him. Each time he brought his suspicions to my attention I disregarded his observation. In truth, watching Shannon and Javier Senior parent, it was clear to see that they wanted to spoil their children.

I was Den leader, how they raised their children was not my problem.

Shannon and Javier Senior were indulgent when it came to their children, except, Javier Junior. From the minute they merged with the den, Junior was the quiet child, never causing much trouble.

Devin and Taylor on the other hand never seemed to mind any limits Shannon and Javier placed on them. The more they began hanging out with my children though, that was when they mellowed out I believed. If they wanted to hang out in my own, they had to follow the rules my children did.

That was when we really saw a change in their behavior.

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Now. Pulling the phone from my ear, I look at it oddly. What was Antone saying to me? Why would he... I shake my head, placing the phone against my ear.

"Wait!" I command, resting back against the booth seat. "Antone, Devin heard Taylor say what?"

"What?" My wife and sister say simultaneously. Frowning, my heart racing in my chest, I take a moment to answer them, nothing quite making sense right now. "Antone, he's saying that Taylor was the one that tampered with the plane?" I mean to relay what has been feed to me, but it comes out as more of a question than a statement.

"Give me the phone before you crush it," Angela murmurs softly, pealing my fingers from the Stat-phone I was holding. Putting it on speaker, she lays in on the table in front of us, while I stare at Kalenah. My mother come from behind me, and scurries over to Lenah, "sit dear," she croons sympathetically, handling my wife, helping her into the seat across from me.