Reclaimed By My Alpha (Natalia and Andrei) novel Chapter 441

Andrei’s POV

The twins were set up in my tent, which was closest to the central area of camp and thus closest to the bonfire. When I lifted the flap and stepped inside, I spotted them nestled beneath a great heap of fur blankets, and yet they were still shivering from the cold.

“Daddy!” Jane perked up when she saw me and moved to get out from under the blankets, but I approached and sat on the edge of the cot before she could get up.

“Stay there, princess. Where it’s warm.” I tucked the blankets a little closer around their chins, as if finding something to do with my hands might change the fact that didn’t know what the fuck to say or even how to begin saying it.

How the hell was I supposed to tell these children that their mother was dead? How? How was I supposed to look into those hopeful, happy little faces and destroy everything they had ever known?

I opened my mouth to say it, but the words stuck in my throat.

These children had been through so much already in such a short amount of time. Their very lives from birth had been filled with chaos, confusion, and fear; and now their mother was gone.

It was hard enough to say it out loud to myself, but to them? I couldn’t do it. I’d never considered myself a coward before, but I certainly felt like one now.

“Daddy?” Jane placed her hand on my arm, and the gesture made my heart crack anew. As if there was anything left of it to crack. “Are you okay?”

My lips parted again. No sound came.

I looked between the twins and hesitated for a long, painful moment as my mind struggled to get the words to my tongue. The whole time, they just… stared at me. Waiting.

Jane, with her half–smile and head cocked to one side so that her long, inky black hair–tangled from traveling and the cold–fell over one shoulder.

Max, with that fucking knowing look in his eyes. He always did that; looked at me like he knew everything. Like he could read my goddamn mind without me even having to open my mouth.

He was looking at me like that now, sorrow brimming in those green eyes, and yet he said nothing. He just waited, like he was giving me the space to say it out loud before he reacted.

Goddess, this was torture.

But finally, I managed to shove the words out of my mouth and into the air.

“Kids… I have to tell you something.‘

“What is it, Daddy?” Jane asked.

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“Is it about Mommy?” Max folded his arms over the blankets and leveled me with that look that was beyond his years again.

My throat bobbed. “Yes.” I looked between the two of them again, and then down at my hands bunched up in my lap. They were trembling. Had my hands ever trembled like this before?

When I thought I’d lost Natalia the first time, that had been bad enough. I hadn’t realized what I had until I lost it. And then she came back five years later, full of fire and vengeance and hate, and, Goddess, how my heart had soared.

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Chapter 441

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But now she wasn’t coming back. How could anyone survive that fall? The mountain’s summit was thousands of feet in the air; even if she fell down to a cliff, the jagged rocks would have taken her anyway. And if, somehow, that hadn’t happened, then the cold and the snow and the fear would have finished the job.

No, I realized as those images flickered through my mind. I curled my fingers into tight fists. No, my hands had never shaken like this before. But I had to say the words out loud. I couldn’t keep dragging it out. I couldn’t let the twins get their hopes up even more.

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