Heartless (Random Updates)

Chapter 77

Silas pushed the door open and Jennifer pressed her face into the crook of his neck even more as he walked into the room. "Here we go," he said as he gently sat her on the counter by the fridge. "Do you want apple juice or chocolate milk?" He saw the frown on her face before he placed his finger under her chin and lifting so she had to look into his eyes. "You can have something other than water, Angelos Mou," he said gently. "What would you like to drink?"

"Because I'm healing?" she asked confused.

"No," he shook his head as he shut the fridge and gripped the counter on both sides of her. At first glance it looked like he was caging her in but North's eyes landed on how tightly Silas was gripping the counter while appearing calm. "Because you are my wife and you are your own person. Yes, I love when you are being healthy but you also need to enjoy life and I want you to. If you want to drink juice or chocolate milk or even a soda you can. While I wouldn't like you to have soda 24/7 because that much is not good for your body, you can have it every once in a while. You don't have to only drink water, Jennifer. If you want to that's one thing, but if you want something else then have something else. I would prefer you not to have any alcohol–"

"No like," she interrupts shaking her head while wiggling her nose in disgust before realizing what she did. "I'm–"

"Good," Silas chuckled while tapping her nose. "Because we don't have any in the house anyway. Now, what does my good girl want to drink with her breakfast?"

A soft pink glow appeared on Jennifer's cheeks as she looked down at her hands in her lap, "Apple juice please," she whispered. "Fluffy cheese eggs and nilla yogurt please."

"You got it, Angelos Mou," Silas smiled as he kissed her forehead. "Now, let's get you away from the hot stove. Someone has already been using it and I don't want you to accidentally get burned." She nodded and put her arms around his neck. "Good girl," he murmured as he gently picked her up and helped her wrap her legs around his waist. "I got you."

"Know," she exhaled onto his skin.

Silas' eyes landed on North and Owen as she spoke. Their expressions on their faces told him that they heard her admittance. Relief filled his heart as he took in what she said.

"Here, Little One," he said after he cleared his throat. "Sit with Daddy Owen and Daddy North while I make both of us breakfast. I'm going to add some avocado slices with mine, I'll put a couple on your plate too, if you can't eat it that's okay, Daddy Owen or Daddy North will finish what you can't." He gripped her chin slightly, "Don't push yourself, just eat what you can."

"Yes Sir," she whispered.

Silas smiled, "good girl," he kissed her lips briefly before setting her beside Owen.

A squeak of surprise left her as he picked her up and moved her between him and North. "Good morning Wife, did you sleep well?" Owen asked as he took the tumbler with the metal rainbow straw from Silas and set it in front of Jennifer. "Your juice."

"Thank you," she whispered before taking a drink.

"Did you sleep well, Baby Girl?" North asked as he pulled her hair out of her face and quickly braided it, tying it off with the hair tie he kept on his wrist.

"Um..." She bit her lip nervously. "After a while I did," she admitted after a few minutes.

"After you came to us?" North pressed and she nodded, "Good, maybe you should sleep with some of us every night so you can keep getting good sleep. We love when you sleep with us, so it's not a bother to us when you do."

"What?" she looked at him shocked.

North shrugged, "Don't look so surprised, Baby Girl, you used to sleep with us before."

"I did?" she asked. "That real?"

"Yes, Little One," Owen said as he set his teacup down. "You sleep better when you are in our beds then in your own. The only reason you have your own room now is to help you adjust back to being with us. That and there are going to be times that you need to have some alone time and that is understandable. We all have times when we need to be alone. They aren't that often since we prefer to be with one another but there are times we need to be alone too. We have signs that we put on the doors of wherever we are to let others know we are okay and just need some alone time. Mr. Coleman–"

North and Silas cleared their throats at the same time.

"I apologize," Owen sighed, "Gabriel will make you a sign for your room as well if you like."

"Of course she will," Silas chuckled from the stove. "Angelos Mou will need time away from all our chaos eventually. No matter how exceptional our wife is, it's still a lot to handle 14 husbands, she's going to need time to herself every once in a while."

"Thank you," she whispered as Silas set her plate in front of her.

"Careful, Little One, it's still hot," Silas smiled. "Thank you Daddy," he gently pressed, "you can say it."

Her eyes lifted to his, "Thank you...Daddy."