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
Chapter 119 Athena's POV "No." The word comes out of me like a scream. I'm on my feet before I even realize I'm moving, my chair scraping against the floor so loud it makes everyone jump. "No, Tristan. Absolutely not. I won't let you do this." But he's already standing too, and there's this cal
Chapter 116 Tristan "We'll figure it out," I said, but the words felt hollow in my mouth. "All of us together. We won't let anything happen to you or anyone else." Athena stared at me with those brown eyes that had always been my anchor, and now they looked lost. "What if there isn't a solutio
That breaks something inside me. I move toward him slowly, carefully, like I'm approaching something wild that might bolt. When I'm close enough, he opens his arms. I hesitate for just a second before stepping into them. The hug is gentle at first. Both of us are tense, waiting for something terri
Chapter 118 Athena's POV I've been staring at my hands for what feels like hours. They won't stop shaking. There's this constant hum under my skin now, like electricity running through my veins. Every time I look at them, I see Daxon and Seraphine's faces. The way they went cold and still because







