The three young men looked completely unfazed. After five years of Caspian's merciless, no-holds-barred physical conditioning, they had developed ironclad willpower. The tests inside The Black Room were now little more than a warmup for them.
"Come, have a seat."
The three filed into the gazebo and sat around Caspian.
Caspian scrutinized each of them, his gaze heavy with unspoken meaning. "You're all grown up now. If I kept holding you back, it would be cruel and against the natural order of things. Whatever you do from here on out, your grandfather is stepping back."
"..."
Their expressions varied, masking their true thoughts as they averted their eyes, looking off in different directions.
*
When the sun dipped below the horizon, the chill woke Vivienne and Bianca. They quickly hurried back to their rooms to change into dry clothes.
Hearing that Vivienne had spent the entire afternoon soaking in the pool again, Marissa hurriedly brewed a massive pot of herbal wellness tea, scolding her the entire time.
"You can't keep doing this. Summer has barely started, and you're already overdoing it. What are you going to do when August hits?"
"You have to finish this tea. You're still young, but when you get older, especially if you have kids, you'll learn that a woman can't let the cold settle in her bones."
"Yes, yes, yes," Vivienne muttered, cradling the steaming mug as the lecture went in one ear and out the other. She thought to herself that Marissa in this lifetime was even more of a nag than Nanny Tessa had been.
That evening, when Caspian heard Vivienne was treating the swimming pool like a hot spring, he immediately ordered Cedric to build an indoor heated pool at The Wellness Pavilion.
Talia didn't hold back either, hiring Stormhollow's most renowned holistic doctor to make a house call.
At first, Vivienne thought they were all overreacting. But when her period arrived unexpectedly, she realized the severity of the situation.
Not only was she early, but on the first day, she suffered from agonizing cramps that made her feel like she was being ripped apart from the inside. Too proud to let anyone mock her, she gritted her teeth and lied, claiming she had simply caught a bad bug.



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