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to sit up, disbelief in my eyes. Twins? "Twins?" I whispered as she got closer. She nodded and stretched one of them to me. I hesitated for a moment before taking the child from her arms. "They are fine, Blair," I nodded, and tears welled up in my eyes. Brushing the tears away, a smile took over my face as I held him in my arms. "He's so beautiful." She stared down at the child she was holding and looked up at me, her eyes gentle. "Have you decided what you are going to call them?" I thought about it for a moment, then grinned knowingly. I had planned for this moment. "He will be called Kaleb, and his brother," I paused, looking down at the baby in my arms. "He will be called Nikolai." Her eyes lightened up, and she let out a little laugh. "It's perfect, Kaleb and Nikolai. They'd be a force to be reckoned with in the future, you'll see." I nodded and then frowned as she held the other child closer to my face for me to look at him. I gasped as I looked at him properly. He looked so much like Slone. I sobbed even harder as I looked from one baby to the other. With everything that had happened and me being a suspect in the murder of his father, Slone could try to get back at me by separating me from both children. I shook my head, panicking at the thought of losing my boys. Chills ran down my spine, and immediately my eyes were filled with tears again. Lydia, who had been staring down at my son, suddenly looked up at me and frowned when she saw my sullen expression. "What's wrong?" she asked, and I turned to look at her, an idea looming in my mind. "I need you to hide one of my babies and tell the hospital that he died in the middle of the night." Her eyes fell wide, and I sighed, squeezing her hand a bit too hard, my eyes boring into hers. "Please, you have to do this for me, I have no choice." "It's against my profe