Contemporary Romance

“Maybe we should try to get them back in daycare?” came the absently murmured words that had Trevor biting back a sigh as he opened his eyes to find his wife worrying her bottom lip between her teeth as she stared down at the iPad in her hands.

“The boys are fine, sweetheart,” Trevor assured her as he reached over and plucked the iPad out of her hands and placed it on his nightstand before she could stress herself out over the boys since he was doing that enough for both of them.

“They stopped talking,” Zoe mumbled sadly as Trevor reached over and wrapped his arm around her and pulled down so that he could hold her.

“They’re just going through a phase,” he said, repeating the phrase that his Uncle Ethan told him every time he called, wondering what the hell was going on with his little boys.