Sirah

December

Our three-month-old twin girls were the perfect revenge against Saul. Isla and Aria had changed our lives in many unexpected ways, and we were finally finding our way to managing our baby girls. Their cousin Stella was almost seven months old, so Katya shared many tips and tricks about parenthood with us.

Saul constantly worried that his girls would fall for fuckboys, and he would be sent to prison for murder. He had a new religious calling and would often repent for his old womanising ways. The only joy he found was needling Seth about his prowess in producing twins, even though it turned out that my great-grandmother had been a twin on my mum’s side of the family.

Our parents were crazy about the girls, and everyone was going to his parent's house for Christmas. This included Katya’s parents. With all the families together, Saul had booked our Winter Wonderland tickets for Boxing Day again. I hoped that was part of our new Christmas tradition.

It had been a wild year, and I couldn't believe it was almost Christmas again. I had gotten rid of his ghastly black Christmas tree, but we left his creepy black angel on our new tree. Saul had refused to part with it, and it didn't matter that he was the butt of his family’s joke over it.

The bedroom door opened, and the love of my life walked through with his signature smile. If he could be, he would sleep in our daughter's nursery. His promise to be there for me during the birth wasn't all he accomplished. He took time off work and stayed home to be with us. He was with me every step of the way in caring for Isla and Aria. I had a feeling his paternity leave would last a while.

“They were smiling in their sleep,” he said with a grin as he rushed over to me with his phone. “I took a video.”

“Back to stalking, are we?” I said with a smirk.

That explained why he had taken so long to put them down. I wasn't unusual to wake up and find him in the nursery, staring at our girls. They had his dark brown hair with a mixture of our skin colour, giving them a beautiful golden glow. However, he couldn't get over their eye colour that they inherited from me. The man was obsessed and had so many pictures of the girls on his phone that I never needed to take any.

We were due to have our Christmas photos shot tomorrow in the comfort of our home. He had the girl's clothes all laid out. The man was fixated with matching Christmas jumpers and outfits. I couldn't have asked for a better father and husband. As he sat next to me to show me the video, I was busy watching the love and excitement in him over his family.

Luckily for him, his sweet side was healthier than his creepy side.