Secrets Worth Keeping (Finding my Home #2)- Nikita Parmenter Page 0,84

in my reaction to men, my hands are still shaking and I don’t completely have my breathing under control.

Fucking asshole.

Before Elena can say anymore, the joint cry of the babies echoes through the house.

“Sounds like the girls are awake and hungry” she chuckles as she turns to Dom, “and you need to get to the store, we’re down to our last two diapers” she grins giving him a quick kiss.

“I’m on it, babe. Who knew they’d go through that many? I honestly thought people were nuts when they warned us” he chuckles as he strides out the door, “love you babe” he calls as the door shuts.

“Love you too. I’ll go and get the girls” she says to us as she leaves the room smiling softly.

As soon as she’s out of sight Luc spins around to face me and pulls me into his arms holding me tightly.

“Are you ok, Dragonfly?” he says softly his voice concerned, “you haven’t reacted like that for a while.”

“Yeah I know. Jeremy has apparently undone some of the fucking progress I made” I growl into his chest and feel it echoed back to me as I mention Jeremy’s name. “That was so embarrassing” I mutter.

“It wasn’t, Firecracker” he drops a kiss to the top of my head as he pulls me even tighter against him, “and anyway if anyone is going to understand it will be my aunt” he adds sadness tinging his tone.

“Thanks Luc” I say tilting my head up to him he meets my lips in a soft and slow kiss that is so filled with emotion it makes my heart soar.

We break apart when we hear footsteps coming down the hallway and excitement fills me. I love kids, I used to babysit for a single mom that lived in the same trailer park. She was an awesome mom but had to work a lot. I used to help her out whenever I could.

Luc

This is going better than I thought it would and it is mostly thanks to Ever being here with me. I was beyond nervous to see my aunt again and meet her new guy. I’m more capable than I was to take care of him if he turned out to be like that piece of shit she was with before but due to my trigger, I’m not sure I would’ve been able to stop myself from killing him if he even laid one finger on her in anger. We don’t need that mess right now, so I’m beyond happy that he seems like a good guy.

When he accidentally triggered Ever, he looked truly upset that he had and that is the only thing stopped me from losing my temper and punching him. That would’ve been bad all round and I freely admit that but my reactions when it comes to Ever are heightened, as are my protective instincts.

Me and Ever sit back down on the couch and I tuck her into my side. Her reaction has me worried, I could kill the stalker fucker for doing that to her. I need to warn the guys so we can stand between her and any potential situations that could trigger her. They also need to warn Atlas that it could happen because his reaction to it will be ten times worse than mine. It’s clear as fucking day how much he already cares about her and if I wasn’t sure, that whole scene in the safe room proved it.

Before I get a chance to pull my phone out, my aunt comes back into the room carrying my nieces, wrapped up in pink blankets and still bawling their eyes out.

“They’re so tiny” I mutter out loud, slightly shocked.

Cut me some slack I’ve never been around babies, I know babies are tiny but seriously they have to be smaller than my forearm. Ever chuckles quietly next to me and I go to shoot her a mock glare for laughing at me but her entire focus is on my aunt and the two tiny babies. She frowns slightly and my gaze turns back to my aunt. She looks a lot less put together than a minute ago as she tries to settle them and make her way to the kitchen at the same time.

“Dom’s usually here when they’re hungry after a nap. He holds them whilst I make a bottle. I haven’t done it by myself before” she says as she starts trying to rock the babies. The more they cry the more she worries