Too Late To Love Me I Already Left With His Twins (Lydia and Dave) novel Chapter 169

Emotions

Lydia POV

Marcus shook his head immediately.

“Lydia. Kids get sick.”

“But tomorrow is their birthday.”

“And tomorrow can still happen.”

I looked down at my hands.

“What if I have to cancel everything?”

“You won’t.”

“You don’t know that.”

“No,” he admitted softly. “But I know you. And I know those kids are loved enough to survive one rough day.”

The silence after that felt softer somehow.

Less suffocating.

Marcus stayed far longer than I expected him to.

Not in an intrusive way.

Not in that dramatic “I am here to save you” type of way either.

He simply stayed.

Marcus leaned back slightly on the couch and said casually, “Do you know Eli once told me octopuses are probably secretly running the government?”

I blinked.

“What?”

“He was very serious about it too,” Marcus continued with a straight face. “He said humans underestimate sea creatures because they cannot pay taxes.”

A laugh escaped me before I could stop it.

A small one.

Weak.

But still a laugh.

Marcus pointed immediately. “There. That’s better.”

I rubbed my forehead tiredly. “I genuinely cannot believe this is happening right now.”

“He’s going to be okay.”

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