Chapter 248
248 – We Lost Our Home
Madeline:
For a moment, I felt heat rush to my head before I forced a calm look on my face and grunted at Baxter.
“I am asking you a simple question. You cannot even respond normally, ” I complained, and he rolled his eyes.
I noticed that ever since last night, he seemed a little bitter. Although he was doing everything correctly, he was not really himself, or the way I remembered him to be.
“She’s at the hospital,” he replied flatly, then walked past me to grab the bags.
“And you could not say that normally to me?” I complained again, folding my arms across my chest as he carried the bags.
Without responding to me, he tried to move past me, so I stood in the doorway.
“How is she?” I asked, annoyed that I had to press him just to get answers to such simple questions.
“Well, your friend is a bit dramatic. She kept making up excuses after excuses to make me stay at the hospital. So I gave the hospital address and room number to the motel manager. He will inform her husband whenever he returns from the woods. Okay, ” Baxter responded harshly.
With every word he spoke, my mouth widened.
“Baxter, pregnant women have issues. The reason she wanted you to stay with her was because she was in pain and probably feeling lonely,” I complained, but Baxter only shrugged.
“Are we going or not?” he questioned, making me stare at his behavior.
“Well then, if you want to be a hero, Baxter, be a perfect hero. Otherwise, do not try to help someone if you are going to leave them in the middle,” I commented, carrying a few bags as I walked behind him.
My children followed us quietly. I felt bad for them.
Baxter suddenly stopped and turned around to look at me.
“Who told you I want to be a hero? I am a coward who cannot take care of his responsibilities,” he remarked, watching my face.
I rolled my eyes and shrugged. “Sure, I can see that is very true.” 2
That comment came from anger, but when his eyes softened and his face showed hurt, I instantly regretted it. Even in anger, I should not have said something like that.
He turned and started to walk away.
I walked behind him. The kids followed us silently too. The walk was going to be a long one. Baxter and I, even though we were carrying a lot of bags, would be fine. But the kids were the ones we had to care for. Thankfully, Baxter did not show any coldness toward them. His attitude toward them remained the same as before. He was very attentive to them.
However, my mood had soured. So after about half an hour of walking, when we decided to take a rest so the kids could rest, I chose to throw a few taunts at him. (1
We sat at the edge of the road, where he opened a few biscuits for the kids. As he held one out for me without looking at me, I grunted under my breath.
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“ It seems like you are just upset because you had to break your engagement with Yuvonne, ” I commented, and he finally turned his head toward me, his hand still stretched out with a biscuit.
“What? You think I am afraid of your stares?” I continued, still annoyed with him. I did not understand why his mood had changed so much. It had to be that he realized he was stuck with me. His mood had shifted after Yuvonne’s departure. If there were any other issue, he would have told me. z
He continued to hold the biscuit and turned his head away. The way he silently let me stay angry only made me more upset.
After a while, we decided to continue our walk because we did not want to delay it until it got late. So we kept going. We took a few short breaks here and there.
Then Baxter decided to carry the kids. He let one of them sit on a bag as he carried it, while Elara sat on his shoulders. With her hands on his head, she tapped lightly, making drumming sounds, and he only laughed at it.
As for Bodhi, I carried him for a bit, but then Baxter took him from me. He looked like a big bear carrying his pups along with everything else.
Finally, we reached the top of the mountain. He put the kids and the bags down, then stretched his neck.
The moment we started walking toward the cabin, I noticed something right away. It did not seem empty.
There were noises coming from inside.
Baxter and I shared a confused glance before continuing forward. We stopped the moment someone came out of the cabin, and we recognized him.
“Isn’t that Bonnie’s husband?” Baxter questioned.
I narrowed my eyes in confusion. Sure enough, it was the man himself, none other than Bonnie’s husband.
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