Chapter 140
140 – Finally Telling The Council
Madeline:
I shoved past the council members, but they had surrounded me so tightly I could barely move.
I couldn’t even see the bedroom door until the screams grew louder.
Everyone rushed behind me, and when we entered the room, I saw Bodi and Gina clinging to each other in the
corner.
On the bed, Elara was red with anger.
“I want to kill them! I don’t want them here!” she screamed, her voice the loudest of all.
Instead of running to me, my children ran to Alpha Eldon, wrapping their arms around his legs.
And in that moment, I realized they did not seek comfort in me because they knew I would never hurt Elara for them.
“Well, I guess it is decided. The kids are not safe with you,” Lord Eldon said in a calm, chilling tone, taking advantage of the chaos my children were trapped in.
“This is the sickness controlling them, the same sickness that had brought me here, and I had helped the children through it in the past. How the heck could you claim my children are not safe with the same woman you brought in to care for your own children?” I screamed, feeling my nerves twist.
The others behind Lord Eldon quietly lowered their eyes because they knew I was not saying anything wrong.
I stepped forward to reach my kids and loosened their arms from around Eldon, pulling them behind me.
“Elara, please calm down,” I stated as I reached Elara next.
Now that I knew there were eyes on us, I started to feel anxious.
I remembered how easily I had been able to calm her in the past by agreeing with her.
“I don’t want them,” she screamed again.
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The only issue was that this time she was not using the demonic voices.
The others were not as disturbed, so they failed to understand the severity of the sickness and how helpless I felt.
“Okay, fine, we will send them back to Daddy. Is it okay?” I asked her, and I noticed Elara begin to calm down.
“You will send us to Daddy, but she is the one hurting us. Why would you punish us? Do you not want to stay with us?” Gina demanded.
As Bodhi started to cry, I turned to him and noticed the shine in Lord Eldon’s eyes.
“What do you mean by punishing you? Does your Daddy hit you?” he pressed, taking advantage of the moment and questioning my child.
Children often struggle to express themselves, and I knew what Gina meant, but they took it as Sawyer hurting them.
“I don’t want to leave Mommy,” Bodhi explained, and that was exactly what they meant. He saw being away from me as punishment.
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“Okay, Elara, please calm down,” I told her.
I felt torn between my children and the people standing around, doing nothing but creating more problems and making it harder for me to care for them.
“You said you will send them away. Will you do that?” Elara yelled, and my heart skipped a beat as everyone stared
at me.
I turned to her and gave a gentle nod, trying to stay vague.
“No. Say it. Say you will send her away. Say you will send them both away,” she screamed, and the more I resisted, the more frantic she became.
“Okay, fine, you are my only daughter. Is it okay now?” I asked, watching her calm again.
“Wow, how can a mother differentiate between her children?” Lord Eldon remarked.
I snapped my head toward him, warning him with my glare.
“What? I am only speaking the truth. Do you not think it is unfair to punish innocent children for the one causing trouble?” he continued.
Elara was no longer under whatever had been possessing her. She clung to me, and I felt her body shaking.
At the same time, I noticed Gina and Bodhi watching me with anger and sadness in their eyes.
“Listen, you stay out of it,” I pointed at Lord Eldon, and everyone gasped.
I turned to the others, the audience who had come to watch a mother’s life fall apart for their entertainment.
“This is what the sickness does. Do you not know that?” I said.
When I began to speak again, Lord Eldon raised his hand to interrupt.
“Tell us who you want the children to stay with,” he questioned.
His words hit me like a stab.
“What do you mean?” I asked, taking a sharp breath.
“Mrs. Madeline Sawyer, we have to arrest and restrain you until we find out how a she–wolf can have three children from three different fathers. And since we have heard there are three different alphas, we need to know about all of them. We also need to confirm whether you are a monster,” one of the council members explained.
All I could think about was what I was supposed to do now.
They looked furious, and if I resisted, they seemed ready to take my children by calling me aggressive.
“So tell us, who are the three alphas who fathered your children?” another council member asked.
I clenched my fists and took a deep breath.
“Alpha Baxter, Alpha Graham, and Alpha Elgin,” I finished.
“And who do you want to care for your children while you are under investigation?” Lord Eldon questioned after expressing the shock by letting out a loud gasp.
I looked him in the eye, understanding whose name he expected me to say, and I refused to give it.
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“Alpha Baxter,” I finished, watching Lord Eldon grow upset with my answer.
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