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 58 My heart was pounding so hard I thought it might explode. Every logical thought in my brain was telling me to run, to get out of there before I did something that would mess up everything between us again. But my feet refused to move again. Instead of backing away like any sane person
How could someone sound so sexy this early in the morning? It wasn't fair. Focus, Athena. "Good morning. How was your night?" The question rolled out before I could stop myself. Nice one, Athena. Why would you ask about his night when you both spent it doing things that would make a grown man blu
Chapter 57 I opened my mouth to say no, to tell him that I'd enjoyed every single moment of last night, that it was never a mistake to me and that we should never pretend it didn't happen. But the words wouldn't come. Something else came out instead, something that felt like swallowing my own we
Tristan teased me with just one final flick, and then pulled back. I raised my head up staring him, he was watching me, but then walked away. My chest heaved as I looked around frantically, dazed. “Tristan?” I whispered, my voice trembling. “Where....where are you going?” Did he change his mind







