Chapter 138
138 – My Children Hate Each Other
Madeline:
After I took my babies from them and moved toward the car with Baxter, he carried me and the children back home.
Throughout the ride, my kids were crying, yelling, and screaming at one another.
Elara kept complaining about why her siblings were not considerate of her and why they were saying such hateful things.
The others were crying and telling me they were scared of their sister. It was a complete mess, and I sat there feeling like nothing.
My world felt as if it had crumbled right in front of me.
And now there were all the threats I would face.
I began to chew the corner of my nails, rubbing my palms together while glancing around the car.
I could not believe I was sweating in winter.
“Everything will be fine,” Baxter remarked, but as soon as he said it, I shook my head. I no longer believed it.
It had escalated into something very ugly, yet I stayed silent.
Once we arrived, I took two of my children while Baxter carried Elara inside, mostly because the others refused to be near her.
After we stepped into the house, I decided to speak with them.
“I need to speak with you three,” I announced through heavy breaths as I sat them down in the living room.
Bodhi and Gina were pouting. Every now and then, they threw an angry glare at their sister, who had no understanding of why her siblings were suddenly turning on her.
“I know what happened was unfortunate, and you two are scared, but you need to understand that your sister- she is ” I paused as I looked at Elara’s big, innocent eyes.
I knew the werewolf world was different.
Pups were told everything with clarity, but my children had grown up in a human world.
Their minds were not prepared the way pups raised in a werewolf pack were.
It was still too new for them.
“She’s a little sick, okay?” Baxter added, sitting beside me when he noticed I struggled to speak for them.
As soon as he said it, Elara lifted her head, and the other two looked straight at her.
“Remember how, Gina, you were sick before?” Baxter reminded her, and she nodded with small movements.
“Your siblings were beside you. They watched over you and cared for you. Now Elara is sick, and she needs you to understand that she does not hate you. Whatever she says, it is the sickness speaking,” he spoke gently, hoping they would understand they were directing their anger toward their sister for no reason, but they were still too young to grasp it.
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“And she gets scary when she is sick, ” Gina complained, her lips curling downward.
“Mommy, why can’t we go and stay with Uncle Graham? He was taking us with him. He said Elara is sick and that he will take care of us. ”
Of course my kids had no idea what they were asking.
They kept requesting it, not realizing that they were asking to stay with the devils.
“And why does he keep saying we are his children? Are we not Daddy’s children?” Bodhi pouted.
I remembered how, while coming here, they had been upset with Sawyer.
But once they realized their father had not beaten their mother, they became worried about the noise and chaos happening around them.
And then Gina said exactly what I had expected.
“No, did you not hear? That old man does not want me. He only wants you, Bodhi, ” Gina stated in her childish tone, and my heart broke apart at her words.
I reached for her hand, trying to hold her, but she leaned back and pulled away.
The rejection in her body language shattered me.
“But I want you. And why would you go and stay with that man? Your mother wouldn’t be there. Do you not want to stay with your mother?” I asked the three of them.
Elara looked at her siblings and then nodded.
“I want to stay with you, Mommy,” she replied with a cheerful brightness, turning toward her siblings and smiling at them, expecting them to agree.
“But you want to stay with her, and she wants to kill us,” Bodhi argued.
I noticed how Baxter stared at his son with a sad expression.
“Okay, kids, that is it. I don’t want to speak about it for now. Mommy has a headache and just wants to rest,” I said, trying to keep my voice calm. I had enough.
With Nina gone, I was responsible for taking care of them by myself, and I was not in a state to process everything. I decided to give them dinner and put them to sleep separately. Bodhi and Gina would stay in their bedroom, and I would sleep with Elara in mine. I set up a baby monitor for Bodhi and Gina.
Feeding them was difficult. They did not even want to sit in the living room with their sister without getting scared every time she moved.
Later, when I was putting them to bed, they told me what had happened.
Elara had spoken to them and told them to follow her into the woods.
She said she had seen their daddy there, so they followed her.
She took them to the well and claimed that their father was down there and that they needed to help him.
When they looked down, she pushed them, telling them she did not want them and that she would kill them.
Baxter was really helpful throughout all of it, though he kept getting calls from Yuvonne, asking where he was.
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She had even insisted on coming here because she suspected something unusual in the guest house.
I could already tell she might have overheard arguments or conversations between Graham, his father, and Kaylee. Baxter reminded her to stay put.
He fed Elara, but I wanted her to be near me for the night. Baxter stayed briefly, but I could tell he was angry.
He had gone to the guest house for a short while and returned fuming.
I knew he needed to transition to release his anger, so I let him go.
After tucking everyone into bed, I returned to my room and found Elara still awake.
“They hate me, Mommy,” she whispered, her lips curling downward and her tiny fingers twisting together.
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