Chapter 11: The Twins

"Gianna, what the hell! You told me they were asleep! Isn’t that Kathleen’s voice?" Athena delivered to Gianna an incredulous look, her words shrouded in an accusatory tone.

As she spoke, her legs moved hurriedly out of the sitting room to the well lit hallway.

Gianna hurried after her, cussing intermittently at the swift change in the atmosphere. She didn’t fail, however, to plead her cause.

"Athena, last I checked, they were asleep. I even double checked. How was I supposed to know they were awake?"

Athena had no response to Gianna’s question and plea. She only hoped that the shout she had heard earlier was from protest, and not from pain.

But when she stepped into the room, a sharp cry of anguish escaped her lips.

"What is happening here?!" She screamed thereafter, when she saw her children hugging themselves on the floor. They were crying intensely, passionately.

Athena’s heart-rate plummeted seriously. She hurried over to them, and repeated her question, anxiously.

At her voice, the two children, male and female, aged six, looked up to her with startling blue eyes that reminded Athena of Ewan.

"Mom, an ant bit Kate..." The male responded, deftly pointing the area of pain to Athena, who had settled on the floor right beside them.

Athena sighed in relief at the small sight of red on Kathleen’s arm, before asking Gianna to get the pain reliever.

But Gianna wasn’t at the doorstep when she turned. Her friend was already off to the dining area to get the first aid kit.

Gianna was perceptive enough to know that the pain relieving ointment would be needed.

Just when Athena was about to comfort the little Kathleen who looked at her adoringly, she saw the laptop that was open and running, near them.

Her eyebrows furrowed. Her children hadn’t been asleep in the first place!

"What were you both doing awake?" She asked calmly, almost abandoning Kate who now squirmed underneath her gaze.

Her son licked his lips slowly in response.

Athena had to resist from cursing at Ewan—with all the willpower she possessed.

His resemblance to her son was too canny. Nathaniel was truly a chip of the old block!

We decided to play some computer games when we saw that you weren’t coming back

countenance as he finally gave an answer

took her daughter in her arms again,

about that, Nate. I got caught up at the party. There was a lot to be done, a lot of

shrugged his shoulders, as if he

the likely loss of her relationship with Zane, and shrugged her shoulders too. "Not

she saw the

looked at her like she was

eyebrow, and when Nate remained

promised not to use that skill again! You

her forehead in

the room, after dropping the ointment on the

ready to bear the brunt of what she didn’t understand!

only donned the

Kate’s arm—Kate, who kept staring at her mother and

done making the application, she carried Kate to the bed and tucked her in, muttering sweet

a scowl on her

hesitated, then bowed his face in submission, under the heat of his mother’s

stood up grudgingly, picked up his laptop and then his phone, and

side glance at his sister who watched them

on your

sorry, Mom. It won’t

son. ’It won’t happen again.’ has occurred more than a hundred times over the past

his passion for computers, and had pushed him

had been wrong, especially as he could

at her children for long, not when they looked at her like that; like she was the best thing ever,

him, and then tucked him

Athena placed her finger on his

okay, Nate...I have forgiven you.

right cheek, wished her a good night,

feet, looked at her children sleeping, and inhaled deeply. These

she wondered what would

shook her head free from the disturbing thought, and checked her children again. When she was satisfied with their sleeping state, she

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