CHAPTER 186

Weeks passed like a dream Katherine didn’t want to wake up from. Mornings were warm and slow, filled with the scent of food, soft giggles, sleepy kisses, and the quiet hum of safety. 

She watched the girls flourish too. Adelaide had started sketching animals and Madeleine had a newfound obsession with astronomy. She got them tools that matched their newfound interests and Lucifer read bedtime stories with a calm she never thought he was capable of.

She really did underestimate that man.

And little Noah, he had begun to practise taking two steps and multiple falls. But besides that, his laughter filled through the house like sunlight on...