In Love, Never Say Never

Thinking that Ashton had left to handle the issue with Nicolas, I headed downstairs to make a phone call.

It was only when I arrived at the living room that I saw him and the kids all sitting on a sofa, each one of them as quiet as a mouse.

My husband was holding a tablet, probably working. Gregory was having online classes with earphones plugged in, while Summer was reading a thick book. Even Audrey was keeping herself entertained by sitting down at a table and practicing her handwriting.

There was something amiss about the entire scene.

Ashton was the first one to notice my presence, putting his tablet down and walking over to place a kiss on my forehead. “You’re awake.”

“Mhm,” I nodded. “You guys…?”

Audrey immediately jumped up at the sound of my voice, loudly announcing, “Mommy! Daddy was being mean and didn’t let me talk!”

Summer quickly reached over to tickle her little sister in an attempt to get her to shut up. “That’s because you were being too noisy and woke Daddy up! It would be bad if you woke Mommy up too, you tiny monkey.”

“No, I didn’t!” Audrey argued through a fit of giggles, scrambling away from Summer’s hands. “Uncle John said—”

was about to expose her uncle, she instantly stopped herself short and

wasn’t that easily fooled by a kid who

long did you sleep for?”

up early in the morning and helped Audrey wash

he’d taken John’s place and only slept for

walked in from outside,

Audrey’s your biological child, so she ran to find you guys as soon as she woke up. I couldn’t have stopped her even if

you went back to sleep and left Ashton to take care

and it seemed

go upstairs to rest for a while longer. “Go take a nap or something. You haven’t slept well these past

day before had been because

were no longer in our young

to it,” Ashton laughed. “I’ve been surviving on three or four hours

rough time while being the

future,” he reassured. “But I want to handle all our current problems before anything else. Next time, you’ll be free to determine when