Too Late To Love Me I Already Left With His Twins (Lydia and Dave) novel Chapter 151

“Oh my God.”

Eli looked genuinely offended.

“You started a countdown event?”

“Yes.”

“That is so emotionally excessive.”

“Thank you.”

Aya was already bouncing slightly now.

“What’s today’s gift?”

I finally brought the bags forward dramatically.

And the moment they opened them?

Silence.

Not bad silence.

Dangerous silence.

The kind children enter when they genuinely love something.

Ava carefully lifted the constellation projector box with wide eyes.

“Oh my God…”

Meanwhile Eli had already dropped to the floor opening pieces from the engineering kit with frightening speed.

“MOM.”

“Relax.”

“This has movable gears.”

“I can see that.”

Gifts

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“THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.”

Aka was still staring at her astronomy set like somebody had handed her state secrets.

Then quietly:

“You remembered I said I wanted to learn the actual names of stars.”

Lydia’s POV

A month ago, I was sitting in my office at almost noon reviewing a multimillion naira proposal while simultaneously researching educational birthday gifts designed to psychologically challenge six year olds.

Honestly.

My life had become ridiculous.

But the internet had annoyed me the previous night. I had been scrolling absentmindedly after work when I stumbled across a video of teachers complaining that children now relied on artificial intelligence for everything. Homework. Writing. Thinking. Creativity.

One woman dramatically said, “Kids don’t even struggle through ideas anymore. They outsource thinking/ immediately.”

And weirdly enough, that stayed with me.

Because no.

Not my children.

Ava and Eli were naturally curious. Naturally intelligent. I refused to let convenience flatten that instinct out of them before adulthood could even get the chance. So naturally, like every emotionally committed mother with access to money and overdeveloped attachment issues, I took things too far.

I researched for nearly four hours. Cognitive stimulation kits. Long term puzzle systems. Memory expansion games. Critical thinking challenges.

At one point, I accidentally entered an online parenting forum filled with frighteningly competitive mothers discussing “intellectual enrichment schedules.”

Texited immediately.