LOGINAnd then it was just us. Our family. I picked up Arianna while Tristan got Adrian, and we carried them upstairs to their nursery. The room had been redecorated twice as they'd grown—first to accommodate their crawling, then again when they started pulling up on furniture. Now it was a mix of cribs
Chapter 214 Athena I looked at Adrian in my arms, then at Arianna in Tristan's. They'd grown so much—both walking now (well, Arianna walked, Adrian preferred to crawl at high speed). Both babbling constantly in their own twin language that we couldn't quite decipher. Both showing more personality
Chapter 213 Athena The backyard was full of chaos—the beautiful, loud, messy kind of chaos that came from having a joint first birthday party for twins. I stood on the back porch, watching the scene unfold before me with a smile that felt permanently fixed on my face. Colorful balloons bobbed
Chapter 212 "Mama's sorry," I soothed, bouncing her gently. "But we need to figure this out before you touch any more plants, okay?" "Can I see?" Lily asked, pushing past the adults to get closer to the plant. "Wow, it's so pretty! And it smells good too." She was right. The plant was giving off
Chapter 211 Athena "The plant," I said, knowing I wasn't making sense but unable to form coherent thoughts. "The dying plant in the living room. She touched it. Tristan, she touched it and it came back to life." Silence. All three men just stared at me. "What?" Orion finally asked. "The plant
Chapter 210 Athena Six months. Six months since Adrian and Arianna had come home from the NICU, and I still sometimes woke up in the middle of the night to check that they were breathing. The monitors helped, their steady beeping had become the soundtrack of our lives, but the fear never comple
We spread out and moved into position, and I had to force myself to wait for the signal instead of just charging ahead. Every second that passed was another second Athena was in danger. Orion held up his hand, then dropped it. Lucas and Jace moved like shadows, covering the distance to their targe
Chapter 109 Tristan The jet touched down on a small airstrip that Derek had somehow arranged on an island I'd never heard of, and the moment we stepped off the plane, I could feel that something was wrong. The bond with Athena was there but it felt different, like she was further away than she sh
The helplessness was eating me alive from the inside. All my life I had been able to protect the people I cared about through sheer force of will and Alpha dominance, but none of that mattered here. None of my training or experience or natural abilities could help Athena now. She turned away from m
Chapter 105 Athena's POV The tears stopped flowing down my cheeks and the shaking stopped and a strange icy calm washed over me like I was suddenly looking at everything from outside my own body. I lifted my head slowly and met his gaze directly and my lips curled into a bitter smile that fel







