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!

to play some computer games when we

he finally gave an answer to her question reminded her

in her arms again,

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

his shoulders, as if he couldn’t be bothered. "How did

relationship with Zane, and shrugged her

her forehead when she saw the strange look on

like she

her eyebrow, and when Nate

promised

palmed her forehead

after dropping the ointment on the floor, beside Athena, already knowing where this particular conversation was heading

ready to bear the brunt of what she didn’t understand! The twins could take care

He only donned the nonchalant

ointment on Kate’s arm—Kate, who kept staring

carried Kate to the bed and tucked her in, muttering sweet words of encouragement to her. Thereafter

a scowl on her face. "You are

submission, under the heat of his mother’s

laptop and then his phone, and handed them over

cast a side glance at

get on

sorry, Mom. It won’t

head to the side, studying her son. ’It won’t happen again.’ has occurred more than a hundred times over the past

for

she had been wrong, especially as he could hack into surveillance systems at

a few beats. She couldn’t be angry at her children for long, not when they looked at her like that; like

pulled Nathaniel up, hugged him, and then

again, but Athena placed her finger on

okay, Nate...I have

wished her a good night, and closed

her children sleeping, and inhaled deeply. These two were her

what would happen if Ewan

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

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