Chapter 210

Athena

Six months.

Six months since Adrian and Arianna had come home from the NICU, and I still sometimes woke up in the middle of the night to check that they were breathing.

The monitors helped, their steady beeping had become the soundtrack of our lives, but the fear never completely went away.

Though it had gotten better. Much better.

Now, instead of constant terror, I felt mostly joy. Joy watching them grow and change every single day.

Joy hearing their coos and gurgles ...