Ella's POV

"Mummy!" Nathan pulled me gently by the cloth and called, trying to get my attention.

I dropped the egg I was whisking and focused on him, plastering a smile on my face for his benefit so he wouldn't know how tormented his mother was.

"Hey, sweetie." I said to him.

He frowned and I wondered what the problem was for a moment before I remembered that they had told me not to treat them like babies again. I had responded to him in a way that I used to when they were still two and the boys no longer liked it. They would always insist that they were...