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 Tristan "Baby that's not..." I started, moving toward her instinctively because everything in me needed to be closer to her, needed to touch her and make her understand. But she stepped back and the movement stopped me cold, froze me in place like she'd physically pushed me away. My
Chapter 168 Tristan So I nodded stiffly and let him do his examination. Every test came back clean. Every injury healed. Every wound closed like the bike crash had never happened, like I hadn't spent hours unconscious while my body tried and failed to repair itself fast enough. "Remarkable,"
Chapter 172 Tristan "Everything comes out wrong with you lately," she said, and the exhaustion in her voice scared me more than the anger had. "I'm tired Tristan, I'm so tired of trying to prove to you that I can take care of myself and the babies. You need to know that am not Jess." her words
Chapter 174 Tristan She was silent for so long I thought she wasn't going to respond, thought she was going to turn around and walk away and that would be the end of us. Then she spoke and her voice was so quiet I had to strain to hear it. "You really hurt me," she said. "I know," I said immed







