Reed froze for a single heartbeat before panic overtook him and he immediately took Aria into his arms.

“Tesoro… look at me.”

Aria's eyes were wet and rimmed red.

Her racing heartbeat gradually steadied as she looked into Reed's reassuring gray eyes.

Reed slowly used his thumb to wipe the tears away from her eyes.

“I'm here, nothing will happen to our babies, okay?”

Aria hiccuped nodding her head, Reed breath in her scent.

God... he'd missed her.

Holding her again made the emptiness of the past few days feel even more unbearable.

Anything but her tears is his weakness.

Mrs. Lucy and the triplets nanny who stood behind them...