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
Then he reached up and pulled off his helmet. His dark hair was stuck to his head with sweat and there was a cut above his eyebrow, probably from debris kicked up during the race. But he was grinning, that wild, fierce grin that made my heart stutter. He started to get off, swinging his leg over t
"They need you," I said. "I need you. So you have to fight, okay? You have to stay with me." "Not... going anywhere," his words were getting more slurred. "Have babies... to meet. Have to... teach them... to race." "They're not racing," I said firmly, even though I was sobbing. "They're never gett
Chapter 157 Athena I showed the message to Tristan who laughed. "You should tell her no," he said. "I know," I said, typing back a response. Me: You're stuck with him. Just like I'm stuck with him being best man. We suffer together. Kiara: This is your fault, you know. You're the one who made
"Join the club," Orion muttered. "She was up at five making lists." "I wanted to make sure we could get appointments quickly," Sarah said. "These places book up fast, especially the good bridal shops." "Thank you," I said, meaning it. "This is already taking so much pressure off." "That's what I'







