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can,” she
said softly, her soul , crushing at her mother’s harsh words.
    My sister crumbled when she saw the lip on
Katalina’s mouth start to tremble. She brushed the hair out of her
eyes. “Honey I know, but we’ve had this discussion. You are not
Tinkerbelle and you do not have the ability to fly. Do you
understand me?” She nodded her tiny head making her tight blonde
curls bounce. My sister sighed and picked her back up, glaring at
me.
    “ I don’t even get a thank
you?” She smacked me on the back of the head. “What was that
for?”
    “ This is all your fault.
You are the one who told her all those bedtime stories of magical
fairies and now she’s obsessed with it.” She turned and walked
away. I looked over my shoulder at Colton and he just shrugged his
shoulders. I let out a deep breath and then joined the rest of my
family.
    “ Is everything okay?” my
father asked, looking at a frightened Candice clutching
Katalina.
    “ Yes, fine.” She looked up
at me and narrowed her eyes. My father cleared his throat and made
it a point to let me know I would get a reprimand for something I
didn’t even do.
    “ Where are CiCi and
Cayden?” I asked just as they both joined us at the
table.
    “ Cas…Colt,” CiCi smiled,
giving us both a kiss on the cheek as she made her way to her seat.
She wore an off the shoulder sweater with a tank top under and
shorts. Her light brown hair was streaked with blonde and hung
straight just below her shoulders. Cayden strolled in behind her
wearing a polo shirt and khaki shorts, his blonde hair cut shorter
than normal. He smiled when he saw us. I
pushed my chair back to give him a hug.
    “ Casper you crazy son of a
bitch, how you been?”
    “ Language,” dad
growled.
    “ Sorry pops,” Cayden
laughed and gave Colton a half hug , half hand shake. He took a seat on the other side
of CiCi just as Charles began to serve dinner. Cayden was my
half-brother. My bastard of a father cheated on my mom when she was
three months pregnant with CiCi and ended up knocking up the other
chick. When my mom found out she divorced my dad. He married
Cayden’s mother and then when she got too old he traded her in for
something younger like he always does. That marriage only lasted
five years. The sad part was that she wanted nothing to do with
Cayden. She just left him, with no rhyme or reason.
    No one talked during dinner and I had a
feeling my dad was waiting until the end to tear into me. After the
plates were cleared and dessert was served, Katalina was off and
running into the back yard. “Kat wait!” Candice called.
    “ No need to worry Candy,
she’ll be fine.” Dallas waved her off with the flitter of her
hand.
    “ I told you not to call me
that.” Candice excused herself from the table so she could keep an
eye on Katalina.
    “ I’ll come with,” CiCi
volunteered, not in the mood to sit through another one of dad’s
boring talks.
    “ Both of you sit,” dad
directed.
    “ Dad, I am not going to
let my five year old, who thinks she can fly,” she glared at me.
“unattended in the back yard , where there is a pool she can fall
into.”
    He gestured for one of the servants. “You,”
he pointed.
    “ Roberta dad, her name is
Roberta,” I said, trying hard to keep my anger in check. She had
worked for us for over twenty years and he still hadn’t
learnt her name, but of course not, these
people meant nothing to him.
    “ Roberta,” he corrected,
staring at me. “Would you please go keep an eye on young
Katalina?”
    “ Yes sir.” Roberta dipped
her head and made her way out back.
    “ Now that’s taken care
of.” He looked to his joke of a wife and smiled, cupping her hand
on the table. Dallas took her other money grabbing hand and ran it
up and down the length of my dad’s arm. I fought the urge to vomit.
She was only twenty-five but she was a gold digger. Her store
bought breasts sat right at the edge of the table and her latest
injection of collagen made her