13: THE START OF A STORM

ARIES

From the moment Ariella barged into my study with a suspicious-looking vial in her hand right to the moment my mate blurted out the words I didn't think I would ever hear from her, my mind was a chaotic mess. Hearing her claim that she was carrying my child was enough to calm the raging storm in my mind.

I stared at her, every other sound fading away. At first, all I could hear was the hammering of her heart and the sound of her breathing. Blocking out every other sense of mine, I descended from my throne and approached her, following the sound of her heartbeat. When I halted directly in front of her, I heard the second and third heartbeats coming from her body.

I froze, and my thinking system crashed as this new reality smacked me in the face.

Twins.

My woman was carrying two of my children in her womb at that moment.

My gaze locked with her desperate eyes, mesmerized by their striking electric blue colour.

"Aries," she breathed, and the animal inside me stirred. Rav