로그인And 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
Everyone's waiting. Everyone's holding their breath to see what Tristan's going to say. Then Tristan leans forward and says something that makes my heart skip. "What if Athena actually tries to heal someone?" The words hang in the air. Nobody moves, it felt like we all stopped breathing. My firs
Orion moves closer to my chair. "Are you sure about this?" he asks Tristan. "I've never been more sure of anything in my life." I look at Orion with pleading eyes, begging him to talk Tristan out of this. To be the voice of reason. To save me from having to make this choice. But Orion just raises
My stomach dropped. "What does that mean?" "It means Athena could lose the ability to touch anyone at all," Derek said. "Ever. The power could isolate her completely to protect itself." I felt like I couldn't breathe. The thought of Athena spending the rest of her life unable to touch another huma
Chapter 119 Athena's POV "No." The word comes out of me like a scream. I'm on my feet before I even realize I'm moving, my chair scraping against the floor so loud it makes everyone jump. "No, Tristan. Absolutely not. I won't let you do this." But he's already standing too, and there's this cal







