More good news

After Brooklyn set down beside Rylee, Uncle John took a seat beside Harper on the other side of the table and Aunt Charlotte set next to him . A few minutes later a helicopter landed in the front yard Alex and Lexi jumped out of the helicopter already dressed in their swimsuits and made their way towards the table with the rest of the family. When they reached the table Alex set down at the end and Lexi set down beside Brooklyn. Everyone turned their attention to the newly wed couple greeting them back from their honeymoon.

After all the chatter died down Jackson clinked his knife on the side of his glass to get everyone's attention. When everyone turned in his direction he began to speak.

"It seems we all have something to celebrate today " He nodded towards Alex and continued,"my brother and his beautiful wife have returned from their honeymoon ready to start their life together as King and Queen of Evanston,"He grinned ,turning his attention towards Van and Harper," My man Van down there, has found his Queen and I'm sure in the near future we will all be traveling to Vital to attend another wedding, He paused a moment and shook his head as he pointing towards Ethan and Rylee."And I'm not real sure what these two are up ; he shrugged looking at the wild pair "But Hay, good luck to ya. Now that we're all gathered here me and Karmen have some more good news to share with everyone. Karmen and I are going to have a baby." He proudly announced.

Lexi shouted, "No fuckin way" jumping from her seat sprinting to the end of the table to hug Karmen with a big grin on her face as she wiped the tears away her eyes.

Mother Sophia cried,"Oh Karmen, I will come help you anytime you need me to darling. For anything, if you just want to get away and go shopping anything at all, I'm here for you," She sniffled with tears of joy clouding her eyes.

Overwhelmed by joy and relief Monica's shoulders shook , she looked into the sky chanting to the heavens," thank you lord , thank you, thank you" as large tears flowed down her cheeks. Her husband James set beside her with a huge grin on his face thankful for the blessing of a new life. Monica had always been afraid Karmen wouldn't be able to have children because she had never started her period and her heart made that horrible growling sound.

Queen Victoria reached across the table to hold Monica's hand . She has always known Monica's fears about Karmen not being able to have a child. She too has always been worried that Karmen would never be able to have children. After all they knew nothing about Karmen's real family or her birth parents. Relief flooded her heart with the news and tears of joy and happiness flooded her eyes.

Everyone else at the table congratulated the couple then Alex stood up clearing his throat to get everyone's attention."Today is indeed a great day . I can't think of two people more suitable to be parents Jackson has all the traits to be a great father he's energetic, fun, patient, and kind hearted and Karmen bless her soul, she's grounded and responsible enough to keep them all in line;" Rising his beer up high, he smiled, "Congratulations Karmen and Jackson we love you "

"Thank you Alex"Jackson said, "I hope you and Lexi are next, it would be great to resume the old tradition of going to Gabby's every Sunday so that our kids could play together in the street like we did."

"Hay, you can always bring them to the Castle and they could crawl through the tunnels like we used to do." Alex grinned mischievously remembering all the mean things he had done as a kid mostly to Jackson.

"Alexander with a new baby coming you need to seal those old tunnels off .There nasty and full of who knows what,"Mother Sophia complained.

"Mother Jackson and I didn't die, our kids will be okay too." Alex argued ,

" Always the reckless one."Mother Sophia mumbled under her breath. She wondered in her mind how Alex could be such an excellent King . He's reliable and cares for his subjects well being, and the whole country respects him for that. However only the people who are close to him truly know how daring and mischievous he really is.

Before Alex could say anything else on that matter everyone's attention was drawn to the sky right above them. Their eyes followed the helicopter as it landed right on the beach about a half mile away. A tall handsome tanned man with broad shoulders and salt and pepper gray hair got out with a suitcase in his hand and the helicopter flew away.

Karmen jumped to her feet as she ran towards the man. Jackson, Van, and Alex all jumped up at the same time read to confront whoever crashed their party. Jackson grabbed her arm before looking up at the man who was walking towards them.

"Let go, it's grandpa " Karmen whined as she struggled to get out of his grasp.

Jackson then looked up, recognizing the man as Karmen's grandfather and his client Nicholas Crain. Jackson release her arm and she dashed towards him jumping into his arms, he swung her around and kissed her cheek before putting her back on the ground.

"How's grandpa's baby girl ,"He ask, as he looked in the direction of the two men coming towards them.

After realizing their was no danger Alex walked back to the table and took a seat beside Lexi. However Van recognized the man and continued walking beside Jackson when they reached to where Karmen and her grandfather stood Jackson stuck his hand out to greet the man.

"Nicholas it's nice to see you, I'm glad you could make it ," Jackson greeted

"Good to see you to Jackson." Nicholas returned the pleasantry quickly glancing over at Van . " Please don't tell me this is your best man." Nicholas smirked , pulling Karmen closer to him as he narrowed his eyes down on Van.

Van rolled his eyes, "Come on Nick, don't tell me you still haven't gotten over it. It's been over forty years now."

"Huh!" Nicholas huffed, walking away hastily with Karmen wrapped safety under his arm, "the woman yes, the betrayal of my best man, Never."

Nicholas then turned to Jackson, who was walking on the other side of Karmen trying to follow the conversation between the two men. He ask "What's this scoundrel doing here anyway? I thought this wedding was for family only."

"Uh.. well .. he is " Jackson struggle to explain however he was cut off by Van ."Oh come on Nick don't be like that, it's not like I didn't tell you the woman was trash to begin with. I even told you how many times she had been in my court for drugging men and picking their pockets. And did you listen to me , noooo, you were bound and determined to marry the whore. The way I looked at it ,I done you a favor."

Nicholas abruptly stopped walking and turned to face Van " FAVOR " He shouted, You could have done something besides fuck her in closet at the church right before the wedding."

" Admitted it you ungrateful ass, I stopped you from making the mistake of your life. And you know it."Van yelled

Jackson groaned, stepping in front of the two bickering grandpa's to stop them from walking. " I understand that the two of you don't like each other, but can please try to get along, just until after the wedding."

The two men looked at Jackson's if he had just said something stupid. After a few minutes Van chuckled, " You think we don't like each other?" Van ask, then add " I love the old bastard."

Karmen snapped her head up to see her grandfather grinning and Jackson stared blankly at the two men wondering if he missed something during their argument.

Nicholas patted Jackson's shoulders, he chuckled " Evander and I are still best friends, hell he was my best man at mine and Rose's wedding. He's just a hard headed old bastard and I like to give him a hard time."

" Really, so you've known Van for a long time." Jackson ask, curious to know if Nicholas knows Van is a demon.

" Yeah, I've known.. " Nicholas paused glancing over at Van then back at Jackson " What the hell did you just call him?"

"Van, it's easy to remember and people don't get it confused with Alexander." Jackson explained the nickname he gave his grandfather.

"Okay," Nicholas shrugged " I think it's been about forty five years now."