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
Chapter 43 Yup! Exactly what I needed to hear. That was a wake up call. Athena, you're his sister. "Yeah, I'm sure he won't." She nodded her head. "You guys should talk it out when he comes" I stared at her with a smile. "We will don't worry. Hope Kiara didn't miss me too much" I joked trying
Chapter 45 She let out a laugh that we both knew was completely fake. "Ha. Ha." I wanted to get up and leave right then, or maybe practice some of the fighting techniques Kiara had taught me. But I forced myself to stay calm and focused on my phone instead, refusing to take the bait. She was cl
The routine felt comforting now—wrapping my arms around his waist, feeling the solid strength of his back against my chest, trusting him to get us home safely. I waved goodbye to Orion and pulled on the spare helmet, trying to focus on the future instead of the past that had held me prisoner for to
Chapter 52 Tristan's POV I could feel Athena's eyes on me while I ate, studying me like she was trying to solve some complicated puzzle. It made me shift uncomfortably in my chair because I had a pretty good idea what was going through her mind. She was probably thinking about how to fix me. How







