Lisieux Family/What About a Wedding!

She sighed and pulled the little girl onto her lap. The one-year-old reached for Desi's hair and started tugging. "Justine! Behave, child..." Desi smiled and tugged the small hand free. There was no need to be going bald this early in life. Justine smiled at her with adorable blue eyes. Her hair was fair, the little crop that she had. "Mommy!" Justine giggled and continued to try to annoy her adopted mother.

Desiderata held her cousin's child on her lap with one tight arm, and wrote on a piece of parchment with the other. She wrote to Leon, asking him to join her in their room. He'd been out running errands, or so he'd told her. She had some rather important things to ask him. The messenger came in and took the rolled up parchment. "For Leon, John." She bounced Justine on her lap as the little girl giggled, "Daddy!"

Lady Desiderata Lisieux (Dame of Lantzas)