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56
Years Later -----

Charlotte was in the kitchen making breakfast for her children. Her and Nikolai had two girls and another boy. Charlotte was done making babies but Nikolai wanted more. 

Dimitri was now 14 years old. How time flies by for the first born, the girls Nadia and Mara being 10 and 8 years old. Leaving the youngest inside the household, Ivan, 4 years old. 

3 out of the kids going to school where Ivan being 4 goes to school just not the one his siblings go due to the fact he is deaf. Surgery is booked for the little one for a kohler ear implant. Ivan is in his highchair watching his mother, Nikolai comes downstairs seeing a wonderful picture of his father. The girls run to their father, he hugs them and places them back to their seats. He kisses his oldest son's head, even if he is 14 years old and a man of the house, as Dimitri says. 

Nikolai wraps his arms around Charlotte kissing her and in the corner of his eye he sees the youngest son staring him down. 

But the little one breaks and starts to laugh, reaching out for his daddy to pick him up. 

Nikolai kisses his youngest son helping Charlotte get the other kids off to school. 

And they drop Ivan at his school, this school is better for him. The 4 year old is already doing a little bit to sign, he is pretty good at it. 

After the kids were dropped off, Nikolai went to work and Charlotte went to the store for groceries. After she was done with the store she took a shower and changed clothes and raced outside and hopped into the car where Vladimir was waiting for her. They drove to an expensive building which happened to be the place where Nikolai works. 

A while back Nikolai told Charlotte she can go to college, but she needs to go to college here in Russia which she does which later she passes college and secures a job as an accountant. Being an accountant Nikolai hired his wife for his business, he made sure that she would not see the bloody/ gore side of things. She would just keep track of what was written down in the books. 

About the shipments, how much stuff came like that. Things were thriving in Russia and in italy. 

Charlotte - 

As I walked into my office, I told Nikolai I did not need much room. I would have been fine with a small office but no " you are my wife, so therefore my wife gets the best" or something like that. 

And of course once I walk in everyone stares at me. At first I thought it was my clothes. It's not that bad, right?  

I just shrug them off and get started on my work. 

Hours later I am done with all of the work and send it to Viktor, mainly with Nikolai. I am so tired and my feet hurt. However I need to leave and go pick up the children and start dinner. 

So I pick everything up walking out but get stopped by Nikolai. It has seemed that things are taken care of back at home. The children are at home and dinner is going to be made, so that everything is fine. Charlotte was confused. So Nikolai brought up his phone to show Charlotte that Killian was at their house, with their kids. Nikolai called Killian to see where he was and Killian's husband as well. 

Nikolai asked if they would like to babysit the kids while he and Charlotte have some time to themselves. Killian was all for it, in fact it was not only Killian and his husband, Carlos but all of the brothers were there and grandpa Aries was there too. 

Charlotte was lost for words. Nikolai took Charlotte to a beautiful candle lit dinner with good food, and some good wine. They slowly danced, and had time to themselves. It was wonderful. They got home late last night and they saw Nadia on uncle Josiah and Mara on her grandfather. Ivan was holding on to Killian and Carlos while Dimitri was laying across Elijah and Ezekiel in their rooms. Grandfather Aries was asleep with a child book in his hands while Mara was asleep on her grandfather and the sort same for the others. 

Nikolai and Charlotte decided to leave them all alone and let them sleep. They went off to bed. Ready themselves for another day. 

Dimitri - 

I am the first born son of the Russian mafia boss and the Italian princess is what they called her. Both of them are my parents, my father chose my mother from a very long line of Salvatore women. 

And how my father made an alliance between Russia and Italy by using himself and choosing my mother. Now here I am at 18 years old and my sister is not far behind.

Nadia is a very long story, I passed high school at the top of my class, father would have it that way. Back to Nadia she is still in high school age difference but I have seen how she acts in school.