Two Years Later...
Vera's stomach was in knots as she sat outside waiting. She hated waiting. Especially when she was having this innate sense of deja vu as she stared at the closed door. She should have brought Amber with her. But with the baby, her cute little daughter, whom they named Reina, selected by Ivan and meaning queen in Spanish, which she undoubtedly was, was actually giving a super hard time to both her parents. They were literally running on fumes. There was no way Vera could have bothered her. And the situation was more or less for Vin and Ci. Although, Maxim, Cecilia's choice of name, taken from the name of the protagonist in one of her favorite books, was a few months older than Reina, he was still a baby too, so it's been chaotic on both sides for the last two years. But
