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 171 I started to speak but he raised his hands higher. "I've let you say everything you have to say, every angry word and accusation, but now it's time to listen to me." I closed my mouth and stared at him, feeling something uncomfortable shifting in my chest. "Do you think Athena doesn'
Chapter 167 Tristan The first thing I registered was her face. Athena's face hovering above mine with tears streaming down her cheeks and those green eyes I'd memorized shining with relief and something else, something that made my chest tight. The second thing I registered was that I felt good.
"You're so damn stubborn," he muttered. "I learned from the best." Despite everything, despite the anger and fear and desperation, he almost smiled. Almost. "Even if I wanted to help you," he said slowly, "I don't know how. There's no scenario where you healing him in that hospital room doesn't r
Chapter 173 Tristan The door stayed closed. I stood up slowly, my joints protesting after sitting still for so long, and made my way downstairs. Orion and Sarah were in the kitchen and they both looked up when I walked in. "Is she okay?" Sarah asked immediately. "She won't come out," I said,







