It was no longer his money but our money, and Waldo was family, so our family had gotten our money. Killian and Zak had been angry because they’d wanted Liam to use the money for his education as well as mine, but Liam had shut down the argument pretty fast when he’d pointed out that we were family now and family took care of each other. The lawyer Zak and Killian had hired had come through with getting Liam access to the inheritance his mother had left him, and he’d used a small chunk of it to pay the manufacturer. Zak and Killian had been planning to dip into their savings to pay the costs, but Liam beat them to it. We’d been able to find an engineer to review our design as well as a company willing to manufacture the beak, but it hadn’t come cheap.

Killian and I had worked long and hard researching the materials that would be the best kind to use for both the beak and the fixtures that would attach the artificial one to the natural one, and we’d finally come to the conclusion that Killian’s 3-D printer wouldn’t be able to accommodate the material we’d wanted to use. He was going to be fine and his new beak was going to be perfect for him.

I was just as worried about Waldo as Killian and the others, but I knew what a fighter the toucan was.

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