Python

C H A P T E R 43

"Okay." I smiled as I opened the door for them to get in.

Yada is the twins' care giver. When I'm not around to take care of them, she's always there. Wether I'm on heists, training, meetings, assassinations, literally anything that has to do with my job, she's always there.

She's the only person I trust with my kids. She literally raised me, she's not some nanny I hired from nowhere. The middle aged woman has been one of our most trusted employees for years. That's why I'm able to trust her with my kids. My children also love and adore her which is really a bonus considering the fact that they are not very comfortable around strangers. Yada has become family to us, she's been with me ever since the twins were three months.

My dad thinks I took one his best helpers because I needed a maid to clean, cook and do the laundry at my apartment. And I made Yvonne, who the twins call Yada, promise not to say anything to my dad.

Why? Because he doesn't know the twins exist. Actually no one knows about them, except Maddison. And that's only because she was there when I found out I was pregnant five years ago. If that wasn't the case, then I think she also would've been clueless.

I kept my kids a secret for many reasons. But the most important one of them all is their safety. I'm trying to protect them from the dangerous world we live in. We have a lot of enemies, I have a lot of enemies. And exposing my kids to a world where I constantly need to be on the lookout for bullets or any kind of harm that might come to them, I'd rather not have that life. I need them to have a normal and peaceful childhood. It will be completely up to them when they're old enough to understand, wether they want to be apart of the gang or not.

Plus, what do I even say to my dad ?
Hey dad remember I went on a mission to find the flash drive? Yeah I found two of them. They talk.

Yeah right.

Kai and Kiara are the best thing that ever happened to me. And I'd have to die first before putting their lives in danger. I know my family deserves to know about them, and they will, when the time is right. Kenny will also know when the time is right.

These two challenge me everyday but they also make my life easier every second of the day. The give me something to look forward to in the morning, give me a reason to enjoy this life thing. Yes they were unexpected and came when I was at the lowest in my life, but I think they're the ones that kept me going. I know they're the ones that kept me going. They're a symbol of both I and Kenny's love, even though that love has turned into something so bitter, Hate.

I don't even know how he'll react when he finds out he has a son and a daughter. A son who looks and behaves completely like him. This has been the main thing on my mind ever since that meeting.

And when Maddie finally said it out loud, I just got angry because I didn't wanna hear the truth. She was right, Kenny deserves to know. My children deserve to know their dad. I'm being unfair to the three of them. I don't know how he'll react, but if he rejects them, our lives will move on. We have been doing fine before him. But I know as the twins grow up to understand everything, they'll ask questions, questions I'm not prepared to answer.

Maddie has been the only person who was there for me through the pregnancy and after the pregnancy. I was unfair to her today because I didn't wanna face the truth. When I dissapeared for a year, to hide the pregnancy, she was there.

After finding out I was pregnant, five years ago, I had to go in hiding throughout the whole pregnancy. I told my dad and everyone about how Python had to lay low for a year because I messed with some pretty dangerous people. He assisted on finding them, but I convinced him otherwise.

I spent an entire year in the Maldives because that was the last place Kenny or anyone would ever think to look for me. I mean why would I settle in a place that bought me so much pain?
I only came back when the twins were three months, a year later and after my body got back in shape. I was in hiding throughout the whole pregnancy, no phone calls or any interaction with my family that might notify them my location.

It was just me in a peaceful island I made my home, with unfamiliar people. No one knew me so it was the safest place to be.

I do sometimes feel guilty about keeping them a secret, infact I always feel guilty about hiding them. But if I was given a chance, I would do it all over again.

I'm really trying at this mom thing. I know I may not be perfect, I'll make mistakes along the road and learn from them. But I wouldn't change any of it for the world.

"Uhh..I just came to check if everything's fine? I'm going to bed now." Yvonne said as she got Inside the room. She was already in her PJ's with her shoulder length hair tied backwards. The fifty-two year old woman had a tray with two glasses of milk which she put on top of the drawer.

"Yeah everything's fine." I smiled at her as I wore Kai his pyjamas. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight Yada." The twins said as they went to hug her. She crouched down to their level, hugging them and telling them goodnight before she left the room.

They both took each glass of milk and gulped it down. I normally have to threaten or bribe them to drink it, they only do it willingly when they want something, or they're too happy. I think this has to do with them not going to day care tommorow.

I tucked both of them in bed, took off Kiara's eyeglasses, switched off the lights and activated the starlight ceiling.

"Which book am I reading today ?" I asked as I went to the small bookshelf.

"The dragon princess!"

"No you chose yesterday. It's my turn." Kai responded her. "Three pigs and a Wolf."