Chapter 15
15 – He Lied About Not Wanting Children
Madeline:
I gulped because it wasn’t a good sign, and I didn’t want him to sense her scent. I had to distract him, to pull his attention away from her.
“Elgin, you’re supposed to take care of the kid when you’re with her, ” I hissed at him.
“ I just looked away for a second and she was gone-,” he muttered.
The minute I noticed, his attention was back on my daughter. I tried to pull her away, but by this point, it was getting too serious. I could either sit with him or step aside to grab the pendant and put it on my daughter. I decided to go for it.
I stretched my arm, almost falling to the side, grabbed the pendant, and returned to my spot, trying to pull my daughter back from him. As I did, I started to put the pendant around the crying Elara. It broke me because I knew she wanted my comfort, and here I was, focused on a pendant.
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” Elgin hissed, almost slapping my hand away, and the pendant fell. He noticed it, then looked at me.
Then he looked back at Elara. Panic surged through me, and I reached for the pendant again, but this time he quickly pulled Elara to the side, trying to meet her eyes.
I gave him a harsh look. However, he was still holding on to her. As I tried to snatch her back, I noticed he pulled her away from me, almost looking at me strangely.
But this time, he didn’t even let me take her away from him. He was already gasping.
“What is this?” he asked.
I was finally able to take my daughter away from him.
“It’s okay. You’ll be fine. We’ll go home, and I’ll check for injuries there, okay?” I told Elara, wiping her cheeks wet with tears while Elgin glared at me non–stop.
I then made her wear the pendant, but I was so low on energy. I was afraid he must have sensed it. The way he looked at me, searching for answers, made me uneasy
“Now let’s go,” I said to Elara, holding her hand and getting up from the ground. As I started to walk her away, I noticed resistance from Elgin.
“Wait, I need answers. ” Elgin followed almost instantly. It was no secret he had felt it, the connection between him and his daughter. To think this man had told me in the past he wasn’t ready and that’s why he wanted me to abort the baby, and now he suddenly wanted answers was just bizarre to me.
I had to face him because it was also true that she was his daughter. I felt so frustrated with the world, with myself, and with the unfairness of it. If I could sever ties between their DNA, I would.
“Not right now,” I hissed at him, turning on him slightly. Elara rubbed her eyes, and I could tell she hadn’t received any injuries, thankfully.
“Then when, when will you finally stop running away?” he questioned. I stopped briefly, clenching my jaw at him. It didn’t scare him.
Once I was on the road and had my daughter sit down in the car, he rushed forward and slammed the door shut so
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Elara couldn’t hear us argue.
“I need answers,” he said, looking me in the eye with both hands on the car, caging me between his arms.
“What answers do you want from me? You weren’t ready back then, now I’m not ready to answer you,” I hissed, watching him gasp and step back.
“So it is true,” he questioned, making me gulp hard.
“These are my children,” he added. The way he said it gave me a new idea. He thought all the babies were his, of course he did.
It had never happened that a mother carried children from different babies at the same time. 1
“Why didn’t you tell me? Why the fuck did you run away?” he started to complain almost instantly, running his hands through his hair.
“Because I didn’t want your shadow on my children. Listen, I don’t see them as your children, and I don’t want anyone to find out either,” I hissed at him, giving him a piece of my mind. If he thought I would beg him to keep the children or give them his name, he was wrong.
“It’s not just that, Madeline. They’re my children. Damn it,” he hissed, slapping his forehead.
“Why do you care? You never wanted a child,” I hissed, arguing back about his hypocrisy and the way he was pretending to act nice.
“Because I was a kid back then, my parents would never have allowed me to get a girl pregnant. It’s not that I hated you or that it was specifically you. I was confused, shocked, and scared in the moment,” he finally yelled, causing me to step back and watch his face.
What was he trying to say? He regretted it in the past, so he doesn’t regret it now? Is that what he was getting at?
“It is true,” he uttered, stepping closer, but I shoved my palm in his face, letting him know I wasn’t ready for him to be that close to me.
“It is true,” he repeated. “I was honestly just scared. It’s not because you were an omega or something. Just forget what I said in the past p>
At that moment, he was saying all sorts of bullshit. He further explained, and I began to zone out a little because it was confusing. If he wasn’t angry about the babies being his, that would mean he would want to be part of their lives, and I didn’t want that.
As I stayed in my spot, confused and lost, another car pulled up with two more behind it. I knew the two red cars had warriors in them, but the one driving ahead of them stopped/suddenly, almost as if in urgency.
Two kids stormed out of the car, rushing toward Elgin. They were the same age as my babies, and the way they hugged Elgin’s legs made me realize he was a liar.
“Daddy,” the kids spoke, and Elgin looked at them before looking up at me, his eyes already telling me he had lied about not being ready.
“So you weren’t ready to accept my pregnancy, but these kids are the same age? You had someone else pregnant back then at the same time as me?” I uttered, disgusted and angry at him.
Sara Lili
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.