Bishop to Knight One (Diviner’s Game #1)

Deejay

The twins are well into their growing phase again. They’ve spent the last week fattening up, and now it’s time to get longer again. They ate their breakfast and by the time everyone left for school, they started fussing like they were ready to go back to sleep, so as soon as I get Cary set up with a movie in my bedroom, I take the twins to the nursery. I put Alex in his crib with a bottle and change Eren, who’s a stinky mess. I get him cleaned up and put in his crib with a bottle. I check Alex’s diaper, but he’s fine, so I sit in the rocker and sing to them while they take their bottles.

It’s been a surprisingly quiet week. I’ve been able to just be a parent and a lover without the stresses that have harangued my demesne for weeks. Nothing bad happened with Matt. Tio’s been absent with no surprise visits. I’ve done some online shopping, and I called Amelia and made a plan to have dinner with them this coming weekend. Wednesday afternoons after school Robbie and Kendall have their weekly therapy appointments, so this afternoon, when I take them, I plan to talk to the therapist about seeing Colt again and get her advice on how to ease him into accepting Matt and me being together. I love the man and I’m never letting him go; Colt and I need to work this out and I trust our therapist can help with that.

I hear footsteps on the stairs and get up to see who’s here, wondering if Matt came back after dropping the kids off at school. I get two steps out of the rocker, when a mass of bodies clad in black run into the nursery. Before I can react beyond noting that they’re all Elves, one of them throws a bolas at me, the cord wraps around my neck, cutting off my air and voice, then a combat staff comes flying at my head, connecting to my temple, knocking me unconscious.