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
He moved closer to the bike and gestured for me to follow. "First things first. Before you even think about starting her up, you need to understand what you're dealing with." I nodded eagerly, hanging on every word. "This is a beginner-friendly bike, but she's still got power. The most important
I walked back to my bedroom, gathered up my clothes, and threw them directly into the trash. I wasn't keeping anything that reminded me of tonight. I wasn't going to break down or cry anymore. We were way past that now. ...... The next morning, I put on a fitted dress and went to work like not
Chapter 76 I turned to see a man in his forties approaching us, well-dressed but with the weathered hands and confident stance of someone who spent serious time around motorcycles. There was something in his eyes that made me instantly wary - not threatening, exactly, but calculating. "Hi," he s
Chapter 72 He opened the door cautiously, his body language tense and ready for trouble. I could see his eyebrows raise in surprise, and he shifted slightly but didn't move away from the doorway, still blocking my view of whoever was outside. Curiosity got the better of me, and I moved to get a be







