Chapter 11: The Twins
"Gianna, what the hell! You told me they were asleep! Isn’t that Kathleen’s voice?" Athena delivered to Gianna an incredulous look, her words shrouded in an accusatory tone.
As she spoke, her legs moved hurriedly out of the sitting room to the well lit hallway.
Gianna hurried after her, cussing intermittently at the swift change in the atmosphere. She didn’t fail, however, to plead her cause.
"Athena, last I checked, they were asleep. I even double checked. How was I supposed to know they were awake?"
Athena had no response to Gianna’s question and plea. She only hoped that the shout she had heard earlier was from protest, and not from pain.
But when she stepped into the room, a sharp cry of anguish escaped her lips.
"What is happening here?!" She screamed thereafter, when she saw her children hugging themselves on the floor. They were crying intensely, passionately.
Athena’s heart-rate plummeted seriously. She hurried over to them, and repeated her question, anxiously.
At her voice, the two children, male and female, aged six, looked up to her with startling blue eyes that reminded Athena of Ewan.
"Mom, an ant bit Kate..." The male responded, deftly pointing the area of pain to Athena, who had settled on the floor right beside them.
Athena sighed in relief at the small sight of red on Kathleen’s arm, before asking Gianna to get the pain reliever.