Chapter 123
123 – What If I Never Left
Madeline:
After Graham’s announcement, I didn’t stick around.
I had no strength to argue back and forth with them.
It frustrated me that, all this time, everyone’s focus remained on what they wanted, not what I wanted.
I understood that he was expressing his undying love for me, but at the same time, he didn’t want to take no for
an answer.
How can someone love another yet not let them make their own decisions?
Baxter managed to open the door against the harsh wind because I had told him I wanted to get out.
Thankfully, he didn’t pressure me, even though he could tell the wind was fierce outside.
We began walking out of the house. The wind blew in my face, almost blinding me with dust particles.
Soon, I noticed the pressure of the wind eased, and the particles stopped hitting me.
When I opened my eyes, I realized why. Baxter was walking sideways, hands stretched out, making sure his body shielded mine.
Then I heard a loud bang against his head. He opened his eyes, and briefly our eyes met.
In the cutest, softest, and most innocent way, he said, “How the heck did a pan hit me p>
For a moment, I wanted to laugh, he was right. Where did the pan come from?
But then I remembered all the stress and chaos, and we kept moving.
Before long, we reached our mansion and, thankfully, got inside.
I noticed he had some bruises. He had been hit by quite a few things.
“Do storms like this happen often here?” I asked Baxter, taking deep breaths once we were inside.
He began ruffling his hair, brushing away the dust, and I noticed how good–looking he was.
I had to look away.
“Sometimes after you left. Maybe when the moon goddess is angry,” he replied, not commenting on my awkward glance.
“Mommy, what is going on? Why is the wind so scary?” Bodhi asked when he saw me arrive.
He hurried from beside Nina and reached toward me.
At the same time, the others also arrived, acknowledging Baxter, but I noticed they seemed a little restrained around him.
Even though he had spoken with them during the dinner we shared the other night, whenever he stepped away and returned, it took them a moment to respond to him.
I assumed it was because one of those times, Yuvonne had ruined a dinner for them.
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123–Who Never Left
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“It’s nothing. It happens sometimes here. It’s because we are so powerful that the wind knows we can withstand it,” Baxter explained, squatting in front of them.
The three moved closer to him, so he wrapped his arms around them and carried all of them together to the living
room.
“So what was so important? The way you left, I was kind of worried for you,” Nina remarked as she approached me, her voice calm and steady.
I knew that when Nina questioned me like that, it usually meant she wanted to pry information out of me.
“It’s just that I thought the storm was probably because of the sickness. You know how sometimes things happen that suggest the sickness is the reason behind it,” I replied, making up the excuse quickly.
“By the way, which one of the guards is in contact with Sawyer?” I asked her, remembering that he had found out from one of them what was happening here.
It was mainly because there was no phone contact allowed between the Human World and the Werewolf land, so the only way they could contact him was through emails.
And somehow my emails were blocked. I wasn’t allowed to email outside the Werewolf Land, yet one of the guards had managed to do it.
“I’m not sure. I’ll try to ask around, but I’m pretty sure Sawyer must have told them not to tell you or me, or else we would have known by now already,” she explained, and I began to nod in small movements.
“Anyway, now that everything is clear, I’ll be able to get in contact with him because I’ll speak to the council about the rules. I should be allowed to speak with my husband,” I stated anxiously, afraid of what would happen once Sawyer realized he wouldn’t be allowed to come here very often after the cure.
Would he be okay with it? I couldn’t be sure.
“I’ll go prepare lunch for you. Is Alpha Baxter staying around?” she wondered.
My head turned to Baxter.
I remembered the conversation we had in his bedroom, including the text messages he had shown me from the past that had left him bruised, and I began to wonder if his anger toward me had been completely justified.
“Madeline?” Nina snapped her fingers in front of my face, pulling me out of my thoughts.
“Oh. Yeah, sorry. Yes, we’re not going to let him walk out in this wind. This time he was lucky it was only pans and pots hitting him. Next time we don’t know what else the wind will bring,” I responded, letting her know how dangerous it was for any of us to step outside at this point.
After she left for the kitchen, I went to lock the door to make sure the kids didn’t run out, because sometimes they did things like that.
When I walked back into the living room and sat down on the couch, watching Baxter try to build Legos with the kids, I couldn’t help but think about the impact the texts had on him.
I wondered what would have happened if I had received those messages at that time.
In those texts, he didn’t only say he was ready to take responsibility if the child was his, but also that he was ready to do it even if the child was not his.
Which meant that if I had received those texts in time, I would have never left the werewolf world.
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How different my life would have been then.
While I kept staring, one question from my daughter brought me back to awareness.
“Are you really going to marry Aunt Yuvonne? I don’t like her,” Gina said, snapping me out of my thoughts. I turned to Baxter, who was watching me in silence.
Then he steadily shook his head. “I’m not sure myself anymore,” he admitted.
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