JADE Iris sprints ahead of me, holding Regina and Jax, her long hair flowing behind her. I walk at a leisure pace to give them time alone. A few pack guards accompanied us on my orders. I want Lukas’s kids to spend one last day with Iris, who raised them. Lukas doesn’t know we are here. He will probably find out much later that his kids and I are missing, but Iris will be long gone by then. One of the guards’ spreads out our beach towels, and sets up a cute umbrella over our belongings. I take off my crocheted beach skirt, lying down in my two-piece plain purple bikini, soaking under the sun. Iris lets out a pant as she plops down next to me. “Kids have miraculous energy.” “You’re just too old,” I say while folding my arms underneath my head. When I checked a minute ago, Regina a

