(Sky’s POV)“Woah!” The triplets beautiful round eyes widened as we entered my penthouse. I seldom used this place, and not even once that I brought a woman here. This was my haven, a place I could call my own man cave, that not even Lalaine knew this place.Finn smirked, entering the house and placing the bouquet of roses on the living room’s center table. He walked to the kitchen, and I bet putting the cake box on the kitchen island.Anj sat quietly on the couch, her eyes wandering in the living room as she glanced at her kids from time to time as they ran around, giggling happily inside the room. My lips curved into an undeniably happy smile, so overwhelming that I felt my heart was full of happiness. I never thought my living room with kids running around would be an exciting sight for me.Sitting on the arm of the couch, I stood up. “I have a surprise for you, kids,” I said, gesturing my hands to come to me and pretending not to notice their mother frowning at me.They all ran to
(Anj’s POV)Sky Mars was crazy for making my children very happy.Seeing how happy they were jumping in their own beds, running happily inside the bedroom full of toys, and their faces shining brightly for having something they never had before was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. Things are getting out of my hand now, and if Sky finds out the triplets are his flesh and blood, he will hate me, and it will be easier for him to get my children from me. My heart pounding hard inside my chest, I went out of the room to look for my children.We have to leave now.I didn’t need to check the room next to the girls’ bedroom because I knew they would not stay there, and following their giggles and excited voices, I walked back to the living room, pushed the ajar door slowly, and saw my children looking stunned at their father’s study room.“Mommy! Mommy! Mommy, look,” Leyanne said excitedly, running toward me and holding my hand to join them inside the room.The welling tears in
(Anj’s POV)I thought Finn had already left Sky’s place when I went out of the girls’ bedroom, but when I went to the kitchen, my daughters were sitting on the chair by the kitchen island, entertained by two handsome men as if they were in a cooking show.“Look, mommy,” Leyanne turned her head to me. “Daddy’s cooking spaghetti, and Uncle Finn’s making baby eggplant pizza,” She giggled when Finn winked at her and showed a charming smile.“Are you hungry? This won’t take long,” Sky asked me, but his eyes asked me a different question.I just nodded, sitting with my children, and like them, I watched them, amazed at how they moved fluidly in the kitchen as if they were not wealthy and didn’t have many servants at home.“Ms. Perry,” Finn stopped, narrowing his eyes as if weighing if it would be okay for me. “Can I just call you, Anj?”“No,” Sky answered right away.He scoffed at Sky, shaking his head as he twitched his lips and stole glances at me. He put the small pizza sizes in the oven
(Anj’s POV)Just a quick one! How fast is a quickie?Then I realized I didn’t care when my back felt the cabinet's coldness as he gently pushed me while kissing me savagely on my mouth. Only Sky could make me lose my mind, get wild and create a conflagration in my body.I moaned, arching my body toward Sky when his lips trailed the slope of my mounds, gliding toward my hard rosy peaks while his hand excitedly moved to my underwear. I could feel his lips curving a smile when he discovered how wet and ready I was for him.My hands reached for his trousers, but I stopped, maybe including my heart, when I heard a click.“Mommy?” A voice that, for the first time, I could not identify who owned it. Leyanne? Lyra Helene? Selene?“Shhiitt!” I hissed, pushing Sky away, but before I could run to the bathroom, the door creaked, making me jump to his big closet, hiding from my daughter and joining his dress suits hanging peacefully inside.“Daddy, where’s mommy?” Not breathing, I finally recogniz
(Anj’s POV)The weekend is a free day for the triplets; they can spend more time playing or whatever they choose to do. When my children discovered the indoor swimming pool in Sky’s place, they all went gaga, wanting to jump into the pool.Whoever prepared my triplet’s clothes, I thanked them for including swimwear for my girls. They’re like ducks in the water, enjoying the pool with Sky. Sitting in the lounger, I secretly took pictures after I convinced myself these photos would be a good remembrance for the kids.Or maybe for myself.“Mommy, Daddy is teaching me how to float!” exclaimed Lyra Helene excitedly.I rose to my feet, walking near the pool to take a picture. Thinking his daughter was calm and relaxed, Sky attempted to let his hands go in her back, but she almost submerged into the water, scaring her. “You drown my child, Sky; I’ll kill you,” I hissed at him.He chuckled. “I got her. Relax, Pumpkin.”I breathed out, wanting to tell him I knew because it was the same thing
(Anj’s POV)I was done cooking the lemon chicken and almost finishing with the salad when they entered the kitchen. I was just thinking of going to the girls to bathe them, but they were all done taking a bath and had changed into cute baby blue dresses.“How can I help?” Sky asked, going from one child to another, brushing and pulling their hair into a ponytail. “Hmm…” He murmured, looking at the result of his work, and shook his head. He peeked at what the girls were doing, and they were all busy playing Play-Doh clay.“Good job, Daddy!” I smiled, gazing at him as he stood beside me to check what else he could do for dinner. “Where did you learn to take care of small girls?” I asked, teasing him as I glanced at my girls.“When my mom left us with a little sister to take care of,” He picked up a sliced carrot and put it in his mouth.“How’s the carrot?” I asked, changing the topic when I read the sadness in his eyes. Suddenly, I wanted to ask how Olivia was, but he would wonder why I
(Anj’s POV)“Mommy, why are you in your working clothes?” Lyra Helene asked me when she entered the closet room as I was changing my clothes. I placed Sky’s shirts and shorts in the hamper before turning to her, but she had already opened the cabinet.“Why don’t you have clothes in your room?” she asked, then she turned to Sky when he came inside with my two girls. “Daddy, why doesn’t mommy have clothes here?”“Mommy has!” exclaimed Leyanne as she opened one cabinet and found the shopping bags inside. “Mommy has not placed them in the cabinet yet.” My daughter excitedly took the bags out of the cabinet.“Ah… ah!” I panicked. “Kids,” These pieces of stuff are mine or used to be mine, but Sky didn’t know about it. I looked at Sky worriedly. “I’m sorry, Sky.”I caught him furrowing his forehead and then shaking his head. “It’s okay. I’ve been thinking of what to do with them anyway,”“Here!” Selene picked a lacy, sexy nightdress just because it was pink. “This is your favorite color.”
(Sky’s POV)“Really, Sky?” She snarled in a hushed tone. “Better stop it before I push you out of bed.”It was a warning because I could read the annoyance in her eyes, and with that look, if I provoked her, I would really end up on the floor. Heaving a deep sigh, I got up from the bed, and like a kid, I wanted to stomp my feet to let her know I was angry, too.“Where are you going?” She asked in a whisper, but I gave her the cold shoulder she deserved and walked out of the bedroom.“Where are you going?” I hissed, repeating her question and growling as I entered the girls’ bedroom. Why was it so difficult to lure her when she kept on tempting me? If her children were not in the kitchen, I would take her right there on the countertop when she told me she was not wearing underwear.“Grrr! She’s such a tease!” I wanted to bang the door as I closed it but was afraid the noise might wake the kids. Heaving a sigh, I lay my back on Selene’s bed and reached for the light switch beside the he
(Anj’s POV) Two years later… I glanced at Anya as she rubbed her baby bump. She hissed as she continued to touch her belly. “Dylan was so ecstatic about having a boy that I wanted him to carry our baby. This little one seemed to practice taekwondo inside my belly,” she complained. “I’m not sure if he’s practicing for the Olympics too early.” I chuckled, looking at my girls as they listened to Olivia playing the violin in the pavilion, and then my eyes went back to the three children playing on the sand. “Dayana!” yelled Anya at her daughter, startling me. “Good lord, don’t eat that!” “Relax, Anya. She was only smelling the shell,” I laughed. “Cloud, Rain,” I called my boys, shaking my head at my twins. They giggled and stood up, walking toward their sisters, leaving Dayana as she continued to play with sand. It has become our tradition to visit the Angela Island every year. Although this year was different without Steve, leaving us all last year just before his birthday. “I onl
(Sky’s POV)“I want to marry the Mighty Sky,” I remembered Angela saying dreamily.I looked at Frank, and as he smiled, I recalled telling him that night, ‘I’ll marry this lovely angel today.’“Are you ready?” Father Jesse asked, his eyes wandering at the small chapel I asked to build for this celebration before looking at me.I turned my gaze to him. “Yes, but Father Jesse, I have a question.” Not giving him a chance to talk, I asked him, “I came to you and asked for Angela, but you said you didn’t know her.”He chuckled softly. “You were looking for an Angela with red spots on her face, and you were describing her to me as if she was ugly. I didn’t know any ugly Angela. I only realized she was the same person you were looking for when I opened the envelope.”“My bad,” I smiled nervously, and Father Jesse patted me on my shoulder before entering the chapel.Olivia sat in front of the piano organ and began playing. The wedding organizer smiled at me, giving us the cue, and I walked on
(Anj’s POV)“Aren’t you scared of being on the plane with me?” Sky asked when his new private plane took off.I shook my head.“Then why do you have that long face?” he asked me again, pulling me to him.I placed one arm on his waist and rested my head on his shoulder. I felt him kissing my hair. “I convinced Anya and Dylan to go with us, but I guess she was having difficulty with her pregnancy.”“Have you experienced that with the girls?” he tilted his head to see my face.I craned my neck to look at him. “In my first trimester. It was hell,” I chuckled. “I couldn’t even make my own perfume, but after that, I could study and work again.”He heaved a deep sigh. “I should have been there. You shouldn’t have carried them alone.”I raised my head and reached for his lips, kissing him. “What would you do? Get one baby and put her inside your belly?” I teased him.“I wonder if men will like that,” he laughed at me, then he pouted, looking so cute. “I’m still mad at you. Why didn’t you want
(Sky’s POV)The luminance of the glow-in-dark stickers in the bedroom still shone vividly when Angela and I collapsed on the bed, panting and catching our breath as I pulled her closer to my body. The thought of dying in the plane crash still made me shiver, and I couldn’t imagine leaving Angela alone, raising our kids, and hating me for the rest of her life for not coming back to her. I kissed her again, not wanting to stop, but I knew she wanted to know what had happened.“I hate you, Sky,” she whispered as her fingers traced my cheeks down to the hollow of my throat. Her hand slid down, stopping her palm on my heart and closing her eyes as if to make sure my heart was still beating. “What happened to you?”“Frank and I didn’t expect it to happen. I was about to enter the cockpit when Leo called and reported someone saw Leonard escaping to Macau. I didn’t need a plane to catch him, so Frank and I got out of the plane but gave my pilot and his co-pilot a go when he asked me if he c
(Anj’s POV)Don’t blink!Don’t disappear!Sky claimed my mouth before I could say his name again. If this were a dream, I would probably hurt anymore who would dare wake me up. It was an intense kiss and hungry as if there was no tomorrow.I could feel the tears rolling on my cheeks, and I cried when Sky stopped kissing me and moved slightly away from me, pressing our foreheads together. It was one long second that I thought my heart had stopped beating again.“I love you, Angela!” He whispered, his lips reaching mine and planting a quick kiss.My mouth opened, hoping to utter words, but no sound came out except my sobs. The mixed emotions stirring in my heart and mind made me dizzy, and all I wanted was to be in his arms. Slowly, I raised my hand, placing my palm on his chest, feeling his beating heart.“Say something, pumpkin,” he sounded begging, but I was more afraid to speak.If only Sky knew the news almost killed me and broke my heart. If he only knew that the days without info
(Anj’s POV)“Angela!”My hand stopped from opening the door, and I turned to the female voice I rarely hear in this place. I saw Jocelyn smiling shyly at me, and behind that curve in her lips, there was tenderness in how she looked at me.“Yes, Jocelyn?” I asked, wondering what she wanted from me.“I wondered if our granddaughters could sleep in our room tonight,” she asked.Our room? My eyebrows raised. With Olivia? With Finn? With Steve?“Steve -” She heaved a deep sigh, blushing like a teenager. “Umm… He wanted to ask if the kids could sleep with us tonight.”“Ah!” I exclaimed, opening the door and finding my children, now in their pajamas, jumping on the bed as Anya read them a book.“Mommy! Mommy!” Lyra Helene called me.“Please, girls, stop jumping. You’re making me dizzy,” I smiled softly at them, stopping at the edge of the bed.The girls stopped jumping and ran to me.“Yes, baby?” I asked, brushing their hair with my fingers, starting with Leyanne, then Selene.“Mommy, Aunt A
(Anj’s POV)The large clusters of clouds had been hiding the beautiful and perfect blue sky for two days now. As I leaned my back facing the garden, I noticed that even the flowers were gloomy about the weather, and sadness loomed in the mansion.Elenita shared with me that it has never been this busy in Mars’ residence except when Freya died. In the kitchen, as she claimed her kingdom, the maids seemed to have never stopped cooking. It was only yesterday when Jocelyn came, hysterical with the news about his son was missing and could be dead somewhere. Steve, though looking tired, remained the strong head here at home, but when he saw his ex-wife, I saw him break into tears for the first time.After seeing Steve cry, I understood what he meant when he told me not to break down because when everyone saw him and Jocelyn crying, it was like looking at the top of the tower falling to the ground. All I wanted was to sit in the corner and wept, wanting to scream for Sky.Finn and Leo have n
(Anj’s POV)“Sky is alive!”It was what I wanted my heart to believe.After Sister Grace left, Aunt Rose came, giving me her warmest hug, and for a while, she cried with me. She sniffed as she moved away from me, her palms on my face as her thumb softly touched my cheeks, wiping the tears.“Have you eaten already?” She asked, and when I shook my head, she forced a chuckle. “I’m not asking you, Angela. I’m asking that little Sky in there,” she took my hand and placed my palm on my belly. “He might be hungry and tired. Or should I say, they might be hungry?”“They?” I released a brief laugh, tears rolling again. “Aunt Rose!”She smirked. “What? You’re a Mars now. You should have known the rumors about them.”“Rumors?” My eyebrows raised at her.Aunt Rose grinned at me. “They were wealthy because someone in the family always produced double. Steve has twin brothers, and you knew he has twins, too, right?” She pursed her lips. “I guess you broke the tradition of producing only two. They s
(Anj’s POV)After giving birth to two babies, the doctor asked me to push again. I remembered glancing at my sun and bright star before nodding to her. She was expecting another girl to come out, but she said it was as if my moon goddess helped me push her brother, but despite that, he still didn’t survive, and Selene almost didn’t make it.When I heard Selene’s first cry, I sobbed, wishing Sky was here. With three babies on top of my chest, I told my children that the sky was almost complete. My heart ached for Cloud, but with three babies, I had to live and wake up. They needed me, and with the thought of me being an orphan, I swore to my children that they would not lose a mother.“Mooommmmyyyyy!” My children wailed, crying as they tried to get into the bedroom. Nina has been stopping them because she thought I needed the time alone.I blinked, and my head turned, following the cry of my girls. My lips curved a sad smile as I opened my arms to them. I saw Nina wiping her tears, ste