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
I felt every single ounce of her agony through our bond and it was worse than anything I had experienced when she was draining my life away. Her pain became my pain, her struggle became my struggle, and I thought I might actually die from the intensity of it. "Stop!" I shouted hoarsely, choking on
"Speak now," Derek added with a bark that made Marcus jump. "If you know what's good for you." Marcus trembled and his knees buckled slightly under the combined pressure from all of us. I could smell his terror and his wolf's submission but I didn't care about his fear anymore. I know he was tryin
Chapter 112 Tristan's POV But she was already there, standing inches from Orion with her hand raised toward his face and deadly energy crackling between her fingers like lightning about to strike. Orion didn't flinch and didn't step back even though he knew that one touch from her would drain th
Daxon's control finally snapped and he lunged forward and backhanded me across the face so hard that stars exploded behind my eyes and I tasted blood in my mouth. "I said shut up!" he roared and his voice echoed off the concrete walls. I spit blood onto the floor at his feet and looked up at him







