"I never really felt comfortable entering there." Maybe it was because their mother had been so very against it. A cottage for a Coombs, Moira leaving the family mansion because she wanted her own space, away from their mother's opinions. Had Aoife ever had an opinion that hadn't been shaped by her mother? Was she weak, as well as dumb? "I wouldn't have thought of it either. Amelie, maybe. I'm just glad that she's considering coming back home, instead of staying at ..probably that Thornton's place. She's seeing Daniel, the youngest one. The artist." It still smarts when she says it out loud, but maybe more because she put herself over Aoife, instead of lust over the family name?

"Nerium, Auryn, and I raised a magic sealed version of Siren Cove. I just wanted more room to live, but she - it didn't went as expected, of course. I'm sorry. Ever since finding Thor, it's so much more pleasing to use magic. Joel had a baby. With his husband. Through adoption, of course." She sucks in her bottom lip. "Maybe that's the most of it."