The smell of the food hit me like a wave—rich, savory, and almost painful in its intensity. My stomach clenched with need, and for a second, I swore I could feel the twins pressing against me from the inside out, demanding it.
It was almost animalistic, the urge to rip the food straight from the pan. My mouth watered, my hands trembled, and it took everything in me to stay seated like a rational person.
Whatever the babies were trying to tell me… it hurt.
I tried to focus on something else, anything else, and my mind wandered back to the pendant Kody had given me—the one I had somehow lost.
The ache in my chest had nothing to do with hunger now.
That pendant was more than a gift. It was a piece of him, a symbol of when he first loved me without expecting anything in return. When I did
