(Anj’s POV)“Your cousin never fails to amaze me, Anj,” Dylan shook his head as we watched her taking pictures with my kids in the garden.When Anya and Dylan arrived, she asked me immediately if she could have pictures in the garden. Not wanting to disappoint her, I gave in to her request, and now my kids looked like little tour guides with their cute guard puppy, Nitro, following her around in the garden.I turned my head to Nina when she came with snacks and coffee for Dylan.“Angela, if you need anything else, I’ll be in the kitchen,” she smiled, but I caught her flickering her eyes at my handsome guest.“Sure. Thanks for the snacks, Nina,” I said, but I could not help myself from checking the pastries for the girls, making sure no peanuts in them.“No peanuts,” Nina grinned. “Elenita served the same pastry to the young Mr. Mars.”“Thank you,” I said thoughtfully, remembering that Elenita always prepares the meals, and in this house, she was the queen in the kitchen.When Nina lef
(Anj’s POV)“Who’s pregnant?” Sky looked at me, and for a moment, I was unsure of the emotions I read in his eyes. However, the suspicion was evident as he stared at me and waited for my answer.“I am pregnant.” Leyanne chuckled, putting her stuffed toy under her shirt and answering his question, which Anya and I did not dare answer. Her sisters giggled as they poked her tummy.“You looked funny, Leyanne,” Selene laughed at her. Sky smiled and kissed the girls on their heads, and after that, the three ran back to the middle of the garden.“I’ll probably kill if that happens to my girl at a young age,” He shook his head as he watched our daughters.Dylan smirked. “I’ll skin him alive,” he said, agreeing with him.“Who’s pregnant?” He asked again, sitting across from me and making sure our gaze would not be broken until his question was answered.I shrugged. “Anya?”Dylan moved his eyes from his phone to Anya. “You’re pregnant? You said it’s negative.”“No!” She panicked. “It’s not me
(Anj’s POV)After dinner, Sky returned to work, attending an hour meeting with a business partner. Anya joined me in reading for Steve and entertaining him with her stories about the girls. I smiled, remembering how his eyes sparkled when she showed him their pictures at school. Dylan got preoccupied when Finn started talking to him about dogs, and when he showed him the breeds he has, he had just forgotten he wanted to leave the house.As I closed the door behind us, it was also the same time Sky went out of the study room.“Are the girls sleeping already?” he asked as he walked with us, returning to the family room. “Where’s Dylan?” As if he had spoken the magic word, Finn and Dylan entered the door with a puppy in his arms.“Dylan, what’s that?” She hissed as her eyes widened at the little animal.“I’m sure it’s not a cat, Anya,” Sky chuckled, looking at Finn.He grinned. “Sorry, but this guy here just fell in love with her. What can I do?”Anya sneered at him, but Sky patted his
(Anj’s POV)Mom?She couldn’t be my mother. There was supposed to be a connection, but there was none. I looked at her and saw the possible resemblance we have. Except for our round eyes and heart-shaped face, I could not see our similarities.“M-Mom?” I stuttered, afraid that she might not be the one I was looking for but frightened that I was feeling empty at the woman in front of me, but when she pulled me to her, embraced me, and sobbed like I was her lost sheep, my tears fell.I had to turn my head to Sky, hoping he would rescue me, but like the others, he also looked surprised.“Mom,” I called, not the woman hugging me but Sister Grace.Eden moved away from her, smiled, and wiped her tears as she gazed at me. “I’m sorry,” she said, smiling apologetically at Jocelyn. “She looked just like my sister.”Sister?I breathed in relief. I didn’t know why when all my life I wanted to meet my real parents and see them, but when she hugged me, it was like millions of questions popped comin
(Sky’s POV)Seeing Jocelyn, my mom, again after many years was surprising, but not Eden when I just saw her this week. When she cried and hugged Angela, I thought lightning struck me I couldn’t move.Sister Grace was right, I made a path for Angela to find her birth parents, but I was not expecting this. Instead of walking in a different direction to avoid Lalaine, I only put her right into its door, an exact place where Lalaine was.Fear crept through me when I saw her running away. I knew she was only going to the bedroom, but with the pain, anger, worry, and shock, all mixed in together, Angela was like someone who would not stop until she was far away from me.“Sky, the reason why I wasn’t choosing Dylan is because of Anya. My cousin loves him, but he is blind not to notice her. And I am telling you the same thing. I am not choosing you because of Lalaine.” She explained but lacked the details that she was usually good at.I nodded, only to show her I understood, but I didn’t beca
(Sky’s POV)“Sky,” Elenita called, and when I didn’t move from the window, she walked toward me and peeked at what I was looking at. “Mrs. Johnsons already left, but your mom’s staying for the night. She’s in the guest room.”I was not interested in where my mother would stay or whether Eden had left already. My sole concern now was the woman sitting near the fountain. She was hugging her knees and looking blankly at the water.“What are you doing to that poor child, Sky?” Elenita asked. She smirked when I didn’t answer and continued, “I remembered the first time she was with us, and I told myself that child is crazy. When I brought her clothes to the hospital and asked her what she needed, she said a red pen.” She scoffed and shook her head. “Just a red pen.”“She’s stupid to ask for a red pen. She could have asked for something else,” I growled.Elenita glanced at me. “She did. She wanted to go home, and then she changed her mind… after that, she wanted to leave again.” She laughed.
(Anj’s POV)It was just past six in the morning, but the sky had already promised good but hot weather. If Finn did not come to find me last night, I wondered what Sky would do with our wailing children. My triplets were not only sensitive to their feelings or emotions, but when having nightmares, I would sometimes hear them talk they had the same bad dreams. The scent of the coffee filling my nostrils woke me up from daydreaming. When I raised my head, I smiled, seeing Dylan’s handsome face, holding a tray with three cups of coffee, and following behind her was Anya. She grinned at me, which I knew she had practiced many times before facing me.“I wonder why wealthy people have so many servants when they can do it by themselves,” Anya whispered as she sat, inhaling not the smell of coffee but the fresh air from the garden.After what happened last night, Dylan seemed to have forgotten his ‘Anya Mission’ because my beautiful cousin was holding a cup, sipping coffee. Instead of goin
(Anj’s POV)I closed my eyes hard, waiting for my bottom to hit the hard floor, but I didn’t. Dylan must have been standing behind me because he caught me just in time before I landed on the floor. Relief flooded me, forgetting thousands of scenarios that could have happened to me.Dylan, who had always acted as our elder brother, the pacifier, and protector whenever someone didn’t treat Anya and me right and with respect, had also caught the hem of Anya’s sleeve, stopping her from her plans.“Don’t stop me, Dylan!” Anya hissed, brushing his hand off. “I’ll erase the face of this woman. No one messes with my cousin.”“I know! No one messes with my friends!” He said angrily, holding her tighter. “But I don’t want to see you hurt too.”Whether Anya stopped or not, I didn’t know because my mind went blank for a few seconds. I was just standing, and my tears were rolling endlessly on my cheeks. What woke me up were the arms of my girls wrapping around my hips, crying, and calling my name.