When Karter and I got to Theo's house, he was sat in the living room. His hands clasped together by his mouth while his elbows rested on his knees. When the door shut, he looked up at us with a frown.

"What's up with Nova?" He asked taking both of us by surprise.

"What do you mean? Novas fine, she's on her way here." Karter frowned looking from Theo to me and back to Theo.

"She mind linked me asking me to get you two here so she could have some time alone. I'm so confused, what happened this morning?" Theo stood up. "I'm not starting anything boys, I just want to know what got Nova so worked up that she couldn't tell me anything other than to get you here."

"We don't know." I furrowed my eyebrows. "Oh no." I muttered closing my eyes and hanging my head. "I think we scared her." I whispered to Karter.

"What do you mean? I-is is because we lost control?" He asked, worry in his eyes.

"I think so." I nodded, guilt eating away at me.

"Can you elaborate for me?" Theo cut in.

"After Karter and I got the triplets ready to come here, she came out of the shower naked. Since she started getting braxton hicks we haven't touched each other at all because when we started, she'd get braxton hicks and we'd have to stop. When we saw her our other half's took over and wanted to mate with her. She told us no but we kept prying. It wasn't until Karter went to touch her, that she pulled away and we snapped out of it." I explained.

"Oh wow. Um, shit." Theo sighed and sat down again and ran his hands through his hair.

"She kept telling us but we wouldn't stop. Fuck, we didn't stop." Karter muttered and sat down next to Theo. Guilt written on his face.

"W-we just have to find her and tell her what happened. We have to apologise, get her some flowers and ice cream. What have we done?" I rambled.

"It's my fault. I went too far. She told us multiple times, and we didn't listen." Karter sighed. "Where is she?" He looked at Theo.

"With Ryan and Eli." He replied. We nodded then left the house going as fast as we could to get our beloved.

When we walked through the front door, we saw Kobe, Ryan, Eli and Nova sat in the living room.

After Kobe was done in my room, he came down to where I explained what happened this morning between my mates and I. And by their reactions, I knew I had overreacted.

"I overreacted didn't I?" I asked feeling guilty eat away at me.

"I think so yeah." Kobe nodded.

"Kobe." Papa and dada frowned at him.

"No, hear me out." My brother sighed. "I know you think so too. So hear me out. I think you did overreact simply because they did apologise and did it sincerely and felt guilty about it. If they didn't, then I'd see your reasoning for wanting to be away from them. If it happens again while you're still healing, simply step away, look at them sternly and say, I'm still not 100% in myself after giving birth, can we wait a while longer. And then they'll say, yes of course, we're sorry baby, we didn't mean to rush you. Want to get ice cream and spend the day together?" He said. "So I think you overreacted."

"Can't argue with that." Papa sighed. "I have to agree with your brother. If they didn't apologise then yeah, I'd agree with you for reacting the way you did, but they did and you ignored them and wanted them away from you and your pups."

"When they come, you should apologise and do some talking. Nova, you need to communicate with them, they can't make you feel better if you don't talk to them." Dada sighed.

"Alaric and I spoke about that this morning." I whispered. "I'll apologise to them. Would you listen out for the pups? I should go to uncle Theo's."

"Of course darlin', go on." Papa gave me a small smile. I got up and walked to the front door, only when I opened it, I came face to face with Karter and Alaric. My breath hitched as I looked at them.

"I'm so sorry." All three of us spoke at the same time. "Sorry, you go first."

"Nova." Alaric said. "We are so sorry, we took it too far this morning. We'll give you time if that's what you need, but just know that we are so sorry for doing what we did."

"No, it was me. I overreacted drastically and didn't communicate like we said earlier. It's me who should apologise, not you two. So I'm sorry, I'm really sorry that I walked away. Next time I feel overwhelmed or uncomfortable I'll tell you so we can talk things through. I just got scared and it was fight or flight and I chose to leave. I'm sorry, I know that's not enough, but I'll make it up to you both and I'll talk to you both more." I spat out quickly so they couldn't stop me.

"What? No we're sorry." Karter frowned. "You told us to stop multiple times and had valid reasons for not wanting us to touch you, so it's on us. We need to listen to you, because you gave birth, we didn't, we don't know what you're feeling and how it is for you. So we're sorry for making you feel rushed and scared. Please, nova, please don't ever feel scared around us."

"Karter you told me that you'd rather save someone from being touched when they said no." I cried. "And I told you no but both of you didn't stop. And it frightened me. But I should've told you that, I should've been grown up and spoke to you, so I'm sorry. I'm so sorry and I'll be better at telling you about things."

"Fuck, nova." Karter muttered pulling me between him and Alaric. "I'm so fucking sorry for making you feel like that. It'll never happen again."

"We'll wait for you, when you're ready to be active again, we'll wait for you to start it. We never want to make you feel uncomfortable when we want to make you feel good. We beg you, just communicate with us and we'll do the same." Alaric told me.

I nodded and leaned up to kiss him, then doing the same to Karter. "I will. But you two don't have to wait for me. You can do it together."

"We don't want to do it together." Alaric frowned. "We want to mate with you, it's better with you. Because we're a trio, not a duo. We all need to work on things, and we will. For now, let's just relax and see to our pups."

"Okay." I nodded with Karter agreeing with what our mate said. We all walked into the living room with my parents smiling at us.

"All good?" Papa asked.

"All good." My mates and I smiled at each other.

My phone ringing pulled us from looking at each other. My alarm was going off telling me I had to feed my babies. "Come up and help me?" I looked at Alaric and Karter.

"Of course." They nodded and followed me up to my childhood bedroom. The triplets lay in a cot together, Aria and Atlas looking around the room while Amaris looked up at me. I smiled and picked up my daughter while Alaric picked up Amaris and Karter Atlas.

"My little girl." I kissed her cheek before carefully laying her in Alarics arms so I could take Amaris to feed him while my mates got bottles for Atlas and Aria.

As I was with my mates and didn't worry about anyone coming into my room, I took off my T-shirt and bra so I could feed my son. I sat against the headboard smiling down at my feeding baby. A cough pulled me from looking at Amaris and to my mates. Both were looking at my boobs making me forget that it gets them fired up.

"Sorry. Can you pass over his Muslin so I can cover myself please?" I asked Alaric.

"I like watching you feed my son. I think you should do it like this from now on." He stated looking at me in the eyes.

"Couldn't agree more." Karter muttered.

"I don't know." I spoke slowly. "I don't want to tease you, that's not fair on you guys."

"No, you're feeding our baby without having to cover him or have your clothes in the way. It's for him, not for us. As long as you and Amaris are comfortable, I don't care how you are." Karter said with Alaric immediately agreeing with him.

"Can I still have it for when I burp him? I need it in case he's sick and I have to clean him up." I smiled a little. Alaric nodded and passed me his Muslin cloth and put it over my shoulder covering my boob Amaris wasn't feeding from.

Alaric and Karter sat down with me and held bottles to Aria and Atlas' mouths so they could be fed as well. I made sure to pump and put it in the bag before we left our house.

"I really am sorry for overreacting. But as soon as I'm cleared, I'll ask papa and dada to watch the pups so we can have some mate time. I promise." I told them.

"Nova we can wait until you're ready, not when you're cleared to have sex again or because we get hard seeing your beautiful body. On your terms. Like I said we haven't had a baby so we don't know what anything is like for you down there." Karter stated.

"I know, but I feel bad because you've been with me, you haven't even had time to sort yourselves out. I'll surprise you so it'll be nice and we can have some mate time without the pups." I told them.

"But Cara told you to breastfeed Amaris for the first few months." Alaric said.

"For one night, I'm sure he will be okay without me. But I'll make sure with Cara before we make any decisions." I replied.

"Okay. Whenever you're ready baby, you let us know. But when it's you, not when you can, when you want to." Alaric reminded me.

"I know. I will." I smiled at him.

"We love you so fucking much, Nova." Karter said. So much love in his eyes as him and Alaric stared at me.

"I love you more." I smiled at them both.