Chapter 49

Declan

By Christmas week, I stop pretending I run this house.

That fantasy dies somewhere around four forty in the morning when Clara starts up in the bassinet beside our bed, Levi joins in from the other one like he refuses to be left out, and Ash decides if they’re awake, he might as well contribute to the noise. I sit up before I’m fully awake, drag both hands down my face, and hear Eden laugh