A/N: Thanks for your support guys! As you might remember I erroneously sent the extra chapter yesterday xDD Hope you enjoyed that~
For those who opened the previous chap and hadn't checked, it has been edited. Don't miss it! xD
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The couple and their kids headed to their room to clean up. Althea prepared their bathtub while Garan carried them both, one on each arm.
They looked adorable just hanging there like stuffed toys, little feet dangling, and rounded eyes looking at her, following her wherever she went.
"Mwamwa!" Pepper called, trying to reach out to her.
"Mwamwaaa!" Meatball also yelled, though he seemed like he was swimming vertically like a frog while being held by his dad.
The two's milky voices abound, resonating across the bathroom, and it was bound to melt anyone's heart.
She giggled and waved her hand to the bathtub, taking a handful of water and letting it float to the children. The babies' mouths made cute 'o's and they raised their little arms to reach the water, seemingly fascinated by how their hands entered the floating mass of liquid.
Althea smiled. "Just a bit more…" she said, adding the rubber duckies as toys.
The kids loved those toys.
"Squeekies!"
"Owwhhh!!"
Althea giggled and walked over, making the ball disappear with a wave of hand. She leaned down and smooched their soft faces.
Chup!
Chup~!
The babies squealed and made kissy faces and she couldn't help but shower them with some more.
It was just that when she lifted her head to look at her husband, she realized he was looking darkly at her.
She blinked, and the laughed when she realized what it was about. She tiptoed, kissing him on the cheek as well.
Garan's face softened, but his eyes also heated up even more.
Suffice it to say, the next hour would be torture for Garan, who could only look at his wife but not touch.
The couple bathed with the babies for efficiency and also because the babies had become increasingly unruly as they grew older, so an adult had to be in the bath with them. Little Meatball, for instance, always kept trying to crawl out of the tub somehow.
Splash!
Water splashed everywhere, and if they had not joined in, they'd have been drenched anyway.
The babies giggled, having fun causing trouble for their parents. Fortunately, Althea was a bit of an expert in basic water skills now, so she could distract and bathe the babies at the same time with it.
"Wowwww!" Pepper squealed as a water blob passed by her body to wash away the soap.
"Wowww!" Meatball also yelled as a water ball teasingly washed his face and dropping over his head.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
"Wodah! Wodah! Wooooaa"
Little Meatball even made hand movements as if following what she did. He was very disappointed when nothing happened though.
Anyway, Althea distracted them like this, all while creating small waves for the rubber duckies to follow dynamically.
Because of this, the children grew to love taking baths.
At some point, they became invested whether the duck would drown under her waves or not.
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