This is big

Maybe he was just much more observant than others but Crux wasn't about to be surprised by the news his father was looking to tell. He'd already settled his emotions, he'd been tempted to be angry, irate, other words that started with vowels. But the truth was he just wasn't. There were things about his mother he'd always carry with him, both physically in the form of the leather cuffs but also emotionally. She was under everything the driving force behind why he worked so hard. But he also didn't expect his father to remain a widower forever just because of their mother, if he'd found someone that made him happy then he saw no reason for it to be a problem. Well aside from knowing it might be for the others. All of which was to say, while he had reason to assume the call for his whole family was about the flood, he wasn't going to be all that shocked by the truth.

Now what would catch him off guard was realizing he was the first of his siblings to show his face... How this kept happening, that was a mystery.

Crux & Riya