Eralia’s POV
I can hear Tanner laughing from the bathroom, and I can’t stop my smile as I settle Austin at the coffee table with his math sheet and then sit beside Liberty, who holds out the sheet of spellings that she has to learn this week.
I scan down the list of thirty words, picking one that I know Liberty can already spell to start.
‘Sent’ I state loudly, looking up at her.
‘Sent, S e n t, sent’ my sister replies immediately.
‘Ok, that was an easy one, how about news?’
‘News, n e w s, news’
‘Good job’ I encourage her, ‘this one is trickier, how about kitten?’
‘Kitten, K i t t e n, kitten’ Liberty reels off without pause.
‘Are you peeking?’ I ask, turning the sheet over and looking at the back as though I think she can see through the paper, ‘you are getting these awfully fas
