~After five years~ “Mummy! Uncle Jimmy is here!” Ryan screamed from outside the house where he was building his sand castle. “Uncle Jimmy!!” Rowan and Riley also chorused from inside the kitchen where their mother was busy preparing dinner for them. Aurora smiled widely as she watched them run out of the kitchen to meet Jimmy. She met Jimmy when she was working about a year ago. She was a waitress in a small restaurant, and he came to eat. She mistakenly spilled some coffee on his white shirt and instead of him getting so mad at her, he took it with all maturity. He told her she owed him one, and what he wanted in return was to get to know her. At first, Aurora didn’t like the idea of getting to know another man yet. She just wanted to work hard and keep taking care of her boys, but then, Jimmy was persistent. He kept making his pure intentions known to her. Aurora told him that she had three boys, hoping this would scare him off, but it didn’t. Instead, it made him love her e

“Riley, touch a ball in this picture,” Carter said to Riley, placing the textbook in front of him. Riley stared at the picture for a few minutes, and when he eventually pointed, he pointed at the wrong image. “Noo! That is not a ball. This is a ball.” Ryan uttered almost immediately, pointing at the ball and laughing. “Ryan is correct. This is the ball, not that. And you, Ryan, you need to understand your brother is a slow learner. You don’t have to laugh at him. Instead, you should teach and correct him with love, okay? He’s your brother.” Carter said in a calm tone, and Ryan nodded. He moved closer to sulking Riley and rubbed his hand on his head, scattering his neatly combed hair. “I’m sorry, okay? Forgive me.” Ryan mumbled, and immediately, a smile lit up Riley’s face. This touched Carter’s heart and he placed his hand on his chest. “That was so sweet of you, Ryan.” He muttered with a genuine smile. Just then, Aurora walked in on them and caught Carter’s attention. “You’re u

Throughout the night, Aurora’s eyes were wide open. She couldn’t bring herself to sleep knowing fully well she was going to lose custody of her children the next morning. Jimmy was very mad at her because she lied to him, but he still didn’t leave her side. He just didn’t say a word to her. Even when Aurora tried to apologize, he responded with a horrible silent treatment. He just couldn’t wait for the morning to come so he could see how it was going to go down. Arthur opened his heavy eyes and looked around the living room again. Jimmy and Aurora were not only the ones who couldn’t sleep. He couldn’t either. He was filled with excitement that he finally found the boys, and at the same time was super careful not to sleep and let them slip off his hands again. Picking up his phone, he found missed calls from Derick. ‘He must have been dying of suspense for him to call me ten times.’ Arthur thought as he sat up. It was 9 a.m., and the house was still dead silent. Not even noises f

“Hey boys!” Danielle greeted with a loud smile as the triplets walked out of the kitchen with Theo, who was holding a serving plate. “Hello.” The boys answered with a straight face because they weren’t sure who she was. “Boys, this is Danielle. Danielle, my children.” Arthur introduced with a smile, while Danielle squatted in front of them. “Come and give Aunt Danielle a hug!” She uttered, opening her hands. The boys kept put, looking at Aurora’s face for permission before doing anything. Arthur noticed this and shot Aurora a firm look. Aurora smiled at the children and nodded slowly permitting them. They walked into her open arms and she embraced them. “There you are!” She uttered excitedly, caressing their heads. Aurora gulped hard as she watched another woman, whom she sure knew was literally her rival, cuddle her children. “Guess what?! I got you chocolates!” Danielle added, reaching inside her medium-sized Saint Laurent bag for the chocolates. Bringing them out, the boys’

“We are not talking about this again, Carter,” Jimmy muttered, taking long strides out of his room. “Of course, we are, Jimmy! You can’t just forget about her! You two were perfect!” “Until she shut me out of her life like I meant nothing! Can you imagine how embarrassing it was? She treated me like I meant nothing in front of that a**hole! She lied to me!” “And I’m telling you to give her the benefit of the doubt! Do you think she’d just tell you she took his kids and ran away from him? Any normal person would run away from such a person.” “But I wasn’t going to run! I love her.” “She wouldn’t know, okay? She was scared of losing you and that is why she told you that. I didn’t want to say anything because I wanted her to do it herself. Trust me, she left his house for very good reasons. “I don’t blame her one bit. okay? So please calm down. She must have been on the edge because he found out where they were. Plus, don’t you even want to know how she’s doing? God knows what Arth