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
Blood starts spreading across his chest immediately, dark red and too much of it. It soaks into the white sheet under him and spreads outward in a circle that keeps getting bigger. "Hold him down," Derek says urgently, throwing his weight across Tristan's legs as his body starts to convulse. Orion
Chapter 123 Athena Understanding starts to dawn on me like the sun rising after the longest night of my life. This little girl, this scared, lonely child, is the power. She's the source of everything that's been happening, and she's been trapped in this dark place for years. Probably since the
Chapter 126 Athena I woke up to giggles. Not the sound I was expecting after everything that happened yesterday. I'd fallen asleep holding Tristan's hand, felt the warmth of him next to me, and somewhere in the back of my mind I'd expected to wake up the same way. But the weight on the bed felt
"I don't feel like I deserve any of it," I admitted. His hand moved to cup my face and he turned me to look at him. "That's why we have to remind you until you believe it yourself." Our eyes locked and I saw the heat there, saw the same want and need that was burning through me reflected back in h







