520. Chapter 520

both of them so intensely involved in shouting, in moving their bodies along with their controllers, and in calling commands into their headsets for their Star Wars: Battlefront game that they don’t hear James, Alex, and Kara come home.

The trio doesn’t even try to greet them because they know it will be useless.

Kara starts making tea to soothe their throats when they’re done playing and Alex leans against the kitchen counter watching her wife with affectionate, disbelieving tears in her eyes.

“You deserve her, Alex,” James tells her as he wraps his arms around her. She sighs and smiles as she leans into his chest and puts her hands on his arms. “You’re perfect together.”

And truth is, the whole family is perfect together.

I don’t make the rules.