Chapter 60
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Madeline:
“See, I told you. She’s here just for the cure. She’ll finish her job and then head back to her human land,” Lord Eldon said directly to Kaylee, who gave him small nods, looking satisfied now that I had confirmed nothing had happened.
“Now, I suppose it’s late, and you’d want to rest too. We’ve booked rooms in the same suite, so we’ll head back now. Come on, Graham, take your wife to her room, ” Lord Eldon added in a stern tone.
Though the fake smile on his face showed he thought it might fool the others.
They began to quietly get up and leave.
But just as Lord Eldon reached the doorway, he turned and gave the three of us, me, Elgin, and Baxter, a look.
“Baxter and Elgin, I’m sure you have booked your own rooms too. Why don’t you come with me? I don’t want rumors starting that you two stayed behind with her,” he mumbled casually.
“You see, Madeline isn’t that nerdy little girl anymore. She’s grown into a fine young woman. And rumors about women like her never stop,” he remarked, making me clench my fists behind my back to hide my reaction.
I didn’t like that man any more than he liked me.
Baxter and Elgin exchanged a quick glance before walking out.
Thankfully, they did.
Once they left the suite, I let out a deep breath and slapped my forehead.
“What the fuck just happened?” I muttered to myself, walking to my room and sitting on the bed.
“And you? You decided to transition, but you won’t talk to me?” I nearly hissed at my wolf, but she only answered with the same silence as before.
That was it for the night.
I fell asleep and woke in the morning to my kids jumping on the bed.
I was always on time and usually awake before them, so it annoyed me that I’d overslept.
“Okay, kids, come here. Don’t jump around p>
After showering, I walked out of my room and found them playing with toilet paper.
They had unrolled the entire thing, running around the couches and wrapping them in white.
“Oh no, what are you doing?” I exclaimed, tiredly reaching for the paper.
“No! I don’t want you to clean it!” Elara’s outburst came out of nowhere.
I knew my children, and she had never spoken to me like that.
I stared at her, noticing the glare in her eyes.
“ If I want to play, I’ll play the way I want,” she hissed, her little face with a hint of anger,
“ Elara, you’re not supposed to talk to your mom like that,” I said gently.
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She was still a child, one who suffered from an illness she didn’t even understand.
But the way she shook her head and glared back left me stunned.
“Mommy, we don’t want to play with her,” Gina said softly, putting down the toilet paper.
“She’s been bossing us around. She even said if we didn’t do this, she’d never talk to us again.” Gina complained, running toward me and hiding behind my back.
“I don’t want to play with her either. She scratched me! Look, Mommy. ” Bodhi came from the other side, showing me the small scratch on his arm.
Both of them hid behind me as I turned to face Elara.
She didn’t look like a child anymore but someone ready to fight if it came to that and I knew this wasn’t how my daughter acted.
At that moment, I knew this wasn’t Elara, it was the sickness acting up.
“You two go back to your room. I’ll speak with her, okay?” I said gently, patting the other two before watching them leave.
They ran into their room and shut the door, showing just how scared they were of Elara.
“Elara, what’s going on?” I asked softly, reminding my daughter that I was still her mother.
I crouched down a few steps away, then sat on my knees with my legs tucked beneath me.
“Are you upset with Mommy? Did I make a mistake?” I asked sweetly and noticed how her fingers began to uncurl.
“I want to play like this,” she hissed, pointing at the toilet paper and the mess she had made in the living room.
“Okay, we can both play like this,” I said, reaching for the roll Gina had dropped earlier.
As soon as I began to unroll it and toss it into the air, I glanced at Elara to see her reaction.
The anger on her face faded.
Her small hands relaxed.
She smiled widely and started jumping up and down, clapping.
“I love you, Mommy!” she shouted.
Hearing those words after watching her spiral meant everything to me.
She ran to me and hugged me tightly, wrapping her tiny arms around my neck.
“I love you too, baby,” I replied, breaking the hug to gently touch her cheeks.
“You don’t have to be angry with Mommy. Just tell her what you want, and she’ll do it for you, okay?” I said softly.
Her face fell again, but this time she didn’t look angry, just guilty.
“Mommy, I don’t know what happened to me earlier, but I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to mess around,” she whispered.
And there she was, my daughter was back.
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I was right.
It was the sickness that had changed her behavior.
She crawled into my lap and hugged me again.
“I wish we had Daddy. Maybe then everything would be fine. We’d be taken care of, you’d be taken care of,” she said, her small, trembling voice breaking my heart.
I held her tightly as my other two kids came out of their room, running toward us and joining the hug.
I knew they wanted to know about their father, but there was nothing I could tell them.
Their father had caused chaos and left.
“Mommy, is Uncle Bodhi really going to marry your sister? Why can’t he marry you?” Bodhi asked in an innocent voice, making my heart skip a beat. 1
With a forced grin and a laugh that sounded anything but real, I answered softly, “That’s not how it works. He’s supposed to be with her because he loves her. And for someone to marry another, they have to love them p>
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