Evelyn Rafe had been right about the twins.Not that he'd known — not exactly. But he'd said they from the moment of the first kick, that quiet instinctive plural neither of us had examined too closely at the time. It was only at the fourth month that I'd felt her.Lena had been there all along, tucked quietly behind her brother whose Alpha bond blazed so bright, I thought it had drowned her out completely. Wren said it was unusual. I said it wasn't unusual at all — I'd looked at my daughter's face and understood immediately that she had simply been waiting until she was ready to be found. Deliberate. Patient. Entirely herself from the very beginning.Thane had announced himself with a kick. Lena had made herself known in the dark and the quiet, a second warmth unfolding beneath the first like something that had always been there and was only now choosing to be seen.That had been eight months ago.Now they were one year old, and the settlement had apparently decided that restraint
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