***BRIAR'S POV***
I truly can't believe that it has been five years already. To think that my little protégé was already turning eighteen. I was having trouble coming to terms with that more than her family was. But I guess that made sense. I had only spent five years with Addie, they had spent every day of her life, or their life in the case of Catherine, with her. They had been expecting this day to come. Me, on the other hand, I had been so caught up in teaching her that I often still saw her as the curious and precocious thirteen year old that I first met after she woke up from the withering flu.
