Valen POV
We were finally going home, and I was beside myself with panic and I think that this was the slowest I had ever driven in my life. Cars were honking their horns behind me, and I glared at the driver in my mirror. Does he not see the baby on board sticker?
“Valen 50kms is already too slow for this strip. You’re doing 20 under,” Everly hisses at me as cars overtake me.
“We have fragile cargo in the car. What if their little heads wobble?” Just saying that has me reduce my speed more. It wasn’t worth the risk!
“We are more likely to get hit with you going this slow,” Everly scolds, and I sigh.
“I’m serious, Valen. Speed up or let me drive. They’re more durable than you think,”
“They are newborns!” I catch Everly rolling her eyes.
“I get this is your first newborn, and you want to wrap them in cotton wool, but seriously, they are durable, geez. Valarian fell off the bed once, screamed his damn head off, but he is perfectly fine,”
“You dropped him off the bed?” I ask, horrified.
“No! Of course not! He rolled off. Damn near had a heart attack.” She laughs.
“Why are you laughing?” I asked, outraged. She was not holding them if she was going to be dropping them.
“Nothing. Just something your mother said when she raced to our room because I was screaming like a banshee thinking I killed him.”
“What did she say?” I asked, curious.
what happened, and her reply was. He’s screaming. He’s fine. It’s when they don’t make
was he?”
perfectly fine.” she states while all I could think was how the heck my son was still alive? He should have brain damage with all these bumps to the
OCD.See what dropping him did?” Everly sighs and shakes
bet the entire house is
is not genetic,” I
“I would debate otherwise,” she
have
you didn’t babyproof the entire place?” she scoffs, I swallow.
her, opening the mind-link. She
proofing stuff, hide it. Undo it. I need to prove to Everly I don’t have OCD.She thinks I am
Marcus replies and I bite back the urge to
I ask, damn it. I
and
names you picked?” Everly asks,
she hisses, clutching her stomach as she turns back to face the front. “Sit still before you
says as I pull into
states, shoving the door open. Now, to master these capsules, they were a real bitch to get in. I had to get my father to show me, who was just as useless,
handle it. Everly plucks a capsule out, then the middle one while I was still struggling to undo the one I was
the handle. The red button on the side
am squeezing and pressing.It’s faulty.” I tell her, becoming flustered. Everly clicks her tongue and walks around to my side, one baby capsule in each hand. She sets them down and pushes me out of the way with her hip. I glare at her when
she was just showing
all up. When the elevator doors open, Marcus opens the mind-link
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