MasukAnd 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 132 Tristan When we got to where I parked the car, I went towards Athena's door and opened it for her. She stepped in, her eyes catching mine for a moment, and I closed the door before heading to my side. The smell of smoke from the fire lingered on our clothes, a reminder of what we’d
I nodded, my hands gripping his shoulders, my body trembling as his fingers kept up their slow torture. “Yes...” I said, my voice barely there. I didn't know if I was moaning or responding to his question. His grin got wider, and he added another finger, making me let out a light gasp. “Tell me yo
"Come," he said. I moved toward him, my legs feeling shaky as I walked. When I reached him, he handed me a lit torch, the flames dancing in the breeze. "Place it," he said softly. I looked down at the torch in my hand, then at the bodies on the wood. This was it. The final goodbye. I stepped f
I saw her wince slightly at the contact, as if even that casual touch was too much. "I'll have my assistant send over the signed contract by tomorrow," he said. "I'm excited to see what you can do with the car." "We won't disappoint," Orion assured him, walking him out of the conference room. The







