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!

were waiting for you. We decided to play some computer games when we

as he finally gave an answer to

sighed tiredly, and took her daughter in her arms again, comforting the little

up at the party. There was a lot to be done, a

if he couldn’t be bothered. "How

about the likely loss of her relationship with Zane,

a furrow marred her forehead when she saw the strange look on her son’s

her like she

her eyebrow, and when Nate remained undeterred, she

that again. You promised not

her forehead

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

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

Nate said nothing. He only donned the nonchalant

side glare before applying the ointment on Kate’s arm—Kate, who kept staring at her mother and brother intermittently,

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

to Nathaniel with a scowl on her face. "You

in submission, under

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

side glance at his sister who

on

It

happen again.’ has occurred more than a hundred times over

she had discovered his passion for computers, and

wonder if she had been wrong, especially as he could

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

him, and

Athena

have forgiven you. Sleep

cheek, wished her a good night, and closed his

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

she wondered what would happen if

again. When she was satisfied with their sleeping state, she walked

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