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 74 Athena's POV Jess. His dead mate. The woman he'd never gotten over, never stopped loving. He wasn't making love to me. He was making love to a ghost, to a memory, to someone who would never come back. In his drunken state, he'd confused me for her, and everything - the tenderness,
Chapter 71 Athena's POV The training lasted for two solid hours, and I'd refused to stop until I'd gotten the hang of several basic maneuvers. My body was sore in places I'd never felt before, my hands were cramped from gripping the handlebars so tightly, and there was a thin layer of sweat u
Athena's POV Chapter 69 It had been three days since I'd moved into my new place, and they had been some of the most peaceful days I'd experienced in years. I'd worried I wouldn't be able to sleep that first night, surrounded by unfamiliar sounds and shadows, but my body had surprised me. M
The thought that he might be looking at me but seeing someone else made my chest tight with a pain I didn't want to name. I tried to sit up, to put some distance between us before I did something stupid like believe him, but his arms tightened around me. "How come I can't stop thinking about you?"







