Stone Circle Jumble of thoughts

Children were tough; though Piper and Lucas had been sweet, Wyatt had been horrible, too. The trickiest was that you didn't know beforehand what sort of children you would get. Although, maybe it wasn't entirely strange that Charles, Riley and Louie had turned out to be worthless children, considering their father.

Laurel didn't know who Oryx even was. Someone who used to be in their pack, maybe? Children don't realise what it's like to be a parent, she said coldly. They're so ungrateful for all we do for them. Merrick, Wyatt, and even Piper and Lucas whom she had loved with all her heart and who had loved her but who had still left her at one point in their lives. All of them, ungrateful brats.

And yet lately she had the inkling of a desire to have more. To do it right this time. To have a proper family. With Xan, maybe, for despite her fear and hatred of men he was the only one who had proven to be able to control himself, at least this year; the only one she considered seriously right now.