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 99 Athena's POV The memory left me shaking so hard that the chains around my ankle rattled against whatever I was chained to and the sound echoed through the small space like a death knell. My stomach turned violently and I thought I might throw up from the combination of fear and betray
He was already moving, grabbing clothes from the dresser where he'd been keeping them. "Come with me," he said, turning to look at me with desperate eyes. "Please, Athena. I don't want to leave you alone." But I couldn't. I shook my head, and I saw the hurt flash across his face. "I can't, Trist
The way she said it made my wolf jerk in alert. There was something possessive and resentful in her tone that I didn't like at all. "This isn't the time to talk about this, Seraphine. You need to rest, and we can discuss whatever's bothering you later when you're feeling better." I started backi
Chapter 98 Athena's POV The first thing I felt was the cold, not the kind that comes from a breeze but the kind that crawls into your bones and settles there like it belongs. My head throbbed with each heartbeat and my throat burned like I'd been screaming for hours, though I couldn't remember ma







