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
"Derek said he and Orion stayed up half the night with him," Leah said, spreading cream cheese on her own bagel. "Apparently he kept pacing and checking his phone and asking if it was time yet." I smiled at that mental image. "Sounds about right." The next few hours passed in a whirlwind of activi
Chapter 200 Tristan "Don't say that." I pressed my lips to her forehead, my own tears starting to fall. "Don't say that. They're fine. They have to be fine." They had to be. I couldn't lose them. I couldn't lose any of them. Not after finally finding happiness again. Not after the Moon Goddess h
Chapter 194 Athena I stared at the ceiling of Sarah and Orion's guest room, watching the early morning light creep across the white paint. My hand rested on my belly, feeling the gentle movements of our babies—who apparently had decided that 5 AM was a great time to practice gymnastics. "Your dad
Tristan's own eyes were wet now, tears sliding down his cheeks as he held me. "You rejected him at the altar because of those messages?" "I rejected him because you reminded me of my strength," I sobbed uncontrollably, gripping his shirt like a lifeline. "Because you saw something in me that I'd







