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
Orion raised an eyebrow at that but said nothing. "Do you remember her last night?" Sarah continued, her voice getting harder. "Do you remember how she looked when you were saying all those hurtful things to her? Because I do, I remember exactly how broken she looked." She moved closer to me. "Yo
Chapter 165 Athena "You won't lose me. I promise." He didn't look convinced, but he nodded. "Alright. Derek, make it happen." Derek was already on his phone, making more calls, his voice taking on that authoritative tone he used when getting things done. Within minutes, he had it arranged. Th
Chapter 175 Tristan I woke up with Athena in my arms and for a moment I just lay there, afraid to move, afraid to breathe too loudly in case this was a dream and any sudden movement would shatter it. The morning light filtered through the curtains, casting soft shadows across her face, and I stud
But the babies seemed to know exactly what to do. Seemed to be guiding my power, controlling it in a way I never could on my own. It was beautiful. Terrifying. Overwhelming. I felt Tristan's skull knitting back together, the fracture closing like it had never been. Felt his internal bleeding stoppi







