"Dad! You came!" Kylie squealed jumping into Marcus' arms.

"I wouldn't miss it for the world princess",he spoke, parting from the embrace and giving her the purple wrapped gift.

"What about Pop-pop and Meemaw?" She asked looking behind him to see whether they were behind him.

"Unfortunately your grandfather had to bail at the last minute, something came up. Meemaw was right behind me, she's probably taking something from the car. Anyway, happy sweet sixteen, princess. Or should I say hashtag sixteen, hashtag sweet sixteen? Hashtag adobs"

"Eew, stop! Just stop! Happy birthday will do",Kylie chuckled.

Mikaella and Roman were by the chocolate brunch flirting as always and at the same time wondering when Seth would get to the party. Kylie and Seth were bonded so much that they had an insane love for chocolate and so much that when Seth went to college, Kylie wanted to go to college with him too. The people murmured against themselves asking when the cake would be cut.

'I'm not cutting the cake till he gets here' Kylie had commanded and thus they were all waiting for Seth even if it was not his birthday to begin with.

"Look, Marcus is here. We should say hi", Mikaella told Roman and they approached Marcus.

"Quite a party you got here",Marcus teased.

"You know how she is, it's-" Roman started and Marcus continued.

"Go big or go home",Marcus finished.

"Whoa, so is this like a thing now? A dad co-parenting thing?" Mikaella joked and both Marcus and Roman laughed.

Everyone in the party knew everything about Marcus and what he did to the Cervantes in the past. But just like how Mikaella had forgiven him, everyone learnt to forgive him and to welcome him as part of the family. Marcus was Kylie's dad. There was no need to complicate matters when in the first place the Cervantes were the ones who started this.

It was an unfortunate accident that Ruby died but fortunately life had given him a second chance with Kylie. He never got to meet his child but atleast he had a child that loved him dearly. He had a big family than he could have imagined. He was a god father to Kevin and Elizabeth's kid, Chase. He was an uncle too to Kimberly's kids. Simply, he was part of the family.

The Sandovals and the Cervantes treated him like one of their own even after everything that happened. And that was the power of willing to forgive, the power of being able to move on past the hate, the grief and the vengeance. At the end of the day, Ruby would be glad to see how happy he was. How contented he was with his life.

He watched his kid standing by the entrance of the garden. She was so grown up and more like him than Roman. He chuckled thinking of how jealous Roman would be had he mentioned that Kylie took after him. His eyes raked the crowd, Kevin and Liz were standing by the pool looking so madly in love.

It came as a shock to him because he thought that despite of everything Kevin and Chloe would end up together. But Liz, Liz was the perfect woman for him. A woman who say the good in everyone and had actually helped the two Cervantes brothers patch things up and be the brothers they were before.

His eyes went back to Mikaella and Roman. They had moved away from him and they were now busy dialing Seth's number.

He stared at Mikaella longer than necessary, he still loved her but he had to let go. She was never his, she had always been destined to be with Roman no matter who or what tried to stop them.

Leonardo Grayson had been caught a while back hiding in his parents' house. James was also apprehended and his family's needs were being taken care of by Roman.

The man of the hour arrived with his white shirt muddy and everyone stared at him.My mom came first her smile warm and a look of concern.

" You had no time to hit the shower?" Mikaella asked her son sarcastically.

Roman on the other hand caught Seth off guard from behind, " Thank God you came she couldn't cut the cake in your absence"

Seth smiled getting in for one of Roman's hugs before they all gathered for Kylie to cut her birthday cake.

Singing the jolly old birthday song, the cake was cut and Kylie's friends took pictures of everything. Pictures of the cake and most especially of Seth.

At the ripe age of twenty five, he had earned himself a fan club after being named as the sexiest man alive in Times magazine.

" You do understand that having mud on your shirt doesn't exactly make you look like a badboy," Kylie said.

"And what does it make me look like?" Seth asked amused.

"Since you asked...like a hobo"

"Seems your friends are really into this hobo then huh?"

"Very funny. Where's Tessa?"

"She couldn't make it but hey your handsome brother is here, isn't he?" He cooed before Meemaw as they all called her arrived with a photographer at the last minute.

They all gathered infront of the fountain by the garden. Kevin, Liz and their baby, Gus, Raquel and their children, Kimberly, Lucas and their kid, Chase, Mikaella, Roman and their two kids, Marcus, Meemaw and finally the grandparents Debra and Jacob.

"Everyone say Kylie!" Kylie shouted and they all smiled chanting the word 'Kylie'.