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she was softly snoring.
    “Ah, minx,” he said with a small smile
and a sigh as he leaned over and pressed a kiss to the tip of her
nose. “What the hell would I do without you?” he asked no one in
particular, not really expecting an answer because he already knew
it.
    He wouldn’t survive without
her.
    She meant everything to him, absolutely
everything. She was his heart, his soul, the reason why he pushed
himself so hard to make a better life for their family. He loved
and adored his boys, but Elizabeth…
    She was his everything.
    And so far, he’d failed her. He’d taken
her from everything she knew, gave her absolutely no choice but to
start a new life whether she wanted to or not and now she was
exhausting herself trying to prove that she could handle this new
life. Tomorrow, things were going to change, but for right now, he
was going to make sure that his wife got the rest that she
desperately needed.
    He pulled off his boots, shoved his
pants down, and pulled off his shirt, tossing it on the chair in
the corner and crawled in bed behind her, determined to make sure
that she was well rested for their trip.
    “You really are going to be the death
of me, minx,” he whispered, half joking as he pulled her in his
arms, kissed her neck and gave in to the exhaustion that had been
plaguing him for months. He was just starting to fall asleep when
the light scratching at the door caught his attention.
    “Sorry, Mr. Bradford, sir, but Mrs.
Kinnley just sent a messenger. It seems that there was a fire in
her kitchen this morning and she has no way to heat the house or
cook for the children until it’s fixed,” one of timid girls that
Mrs. Brown had hired from town hesitantly announced from the safety
of the other side of the door, making him realize that he was going
to have to put off catching up on his sleep for a little while
longer.

Chapter 4
     
    The Next Day…
    “No!” Noah said firmly with a glare as
he folded his little arms over his chest and glared up at Robert,
matching his brother Shaun’s glare exactly as Robert stood there,
wondering why he’d even bothered to try and reason with his
sons.
    “She stays,” Shaun bit out
before his eyes narrowed dangerously on Robert,
“ you can
go.”
    Biting back a few words that would have
his wife going for his balls, Robert pinched the bridge of his
nose, trying to ignore the headache that exhaustion and the
leftover fumes from the Kinnley house had bombarded him with, and
focused on the two little boys standing in front of him, making the
warning very clear.
    If he tried to leave with their mother,
they would kill him.
    Or at the very least, do their best to
beat the shit out of him and make him rethink ever coming between
them and their mother again. Robert took a slow, deep steadying
breath, praying for patience this morning, but by the time that he
caught his boys sharing one of their secret, and admittedly
terrifying looks, it was too late.
    “She stays,” Noah said with an evil
little smile just as his brother’s lower chin began to tremble and
his big green eyes filled with unshed tears.
    Sniffle, “She loves us more,” Noah
mumbled, getting into character as he reached up with his little
tan hand and wiped away a single tear that rolled down his cheek
while Robert stood there, glaring down at his sons and silently
daring them to push him too far today.
    “You don’t want to play this game with
me today, boys,” he warned them quietly, but since they were his
sons, they ignored the warning and focused all of their attention
on the beautiful woman walking into the nursery.
    The pleased smile that Elizabeth wore
each morning when she greeted their sons instantly changed to panic
as she caught sight of the twins, standing there in their
nightshirts, suddenly looking lost and a little terrified as both
the boys released matching sniffles and sobs that would have even
the most heartless of bastards feeling bad for them. It just made
him want to put