Aldric POV That Evening, we gathered the people who needed to know.Eleanor, Mira, and Sebastian. The core of everything that had kept us functional through Adrian's first years and every difficult thing before and after. They were in the living room with drinks, and Adrian was in the corner dismantling a block tower he had spent twenty minutes building, which was a metaphor I chose not to examine."We have an announcement," I said."You're pregnant," Eleanor said it immediately, with the certainty of someone who had been watching Caelen for weeks and drawing conclusions. "I knew it. You've had that look.""Yes," Caelen confirmed. "But that's not the whole announcement.""Triplets?" Mira guessed, which was not funny and also was."Twins." The word still felt foreign. "We're having twins."Three seconds of silence.Then Mira's shriek."TWINS! Oh my god! This is incredible!" She was already pulling Caelen into a hug with the complete disregard for personal space that was entirely char
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