Chapter 22: Chapter 22

Third Person's POV

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Today, it was their turn to do the same. After all, their mom always used to say that they were her strength.

Both the kids wiped her tears off their sides and kissed her.

“Your kids are too sweet and intelligent, Sophia.”, Bruce said with a small smile.

Sophia just gave him a weak smile and looked at him. He looked almost the same except for the wrinkles and some of the grey hairs, while Brandon had changed beyond recognition.

“How is our dad now?” Calvin asked cheerfully. “Is his headache gone?”

Before Sophia and Eden could answer his question, a Nurse interrupted them.

“Patient has gained his consciousness. You guys can meet him.”

“Yeee… time to meet dad!!” Calvin said. “Mom, let’s go inside.”

‘You can leave forever. And NEVER EVER return back to me for any reason because the contract is already OVER.’ Brandon’s word rang in her ears.

She didn’t want to meet him. Seeing his face after all this time would remind her of the time when they had officially met each other and from where their story had begun.

“Calvin, I…”

“Excuse me, Ms. Weasley.”, Another nurse interrupted her. “The doctor is asking for your presence in the cabin to discuss Mr. Haysert’s report.”

‘PERFECT,’ she thought in her mind.

“Kids, I will meet your dad next time.”, She said, putting over of them on the ground. “For now, I have to meet the doctor to know your dad’s condition, okay?”

“Okay!!”, Colton nodded.

“And the moment important thing, I had told you that your dad was on an adventure trip, right?”, Both the kids nodded their heads. “He was in the forest where there was any network or signal. In short, without any facilities and proper food, nothing. That’s why he doesn’t look like the same person that he was once.”

“He looks like Tarzan now?” Calvin asked, furrowing his eyebrow

“Sort of.”, Sophia lied. “But he is still your dad, who loves you both a lot and also had sent gifts for your birthday after coming out of the forest, and then he fell sick.”, She added on more lie. Well, two actually, or say the web of lies.

“Okay, Mom.”, Colton nodded.

She kissed the cheeks of both the kids before looking at Bruce, “Please stay here with kids. In case one has to handle the situation.”, She said indirectly and stood up on her feet. “Eden, Arya!! Come with me.”

“I’m coming with you, Sophia. You can ask either of them to stay here.”, Bruce said. “I want to know what is in the report.”

Eden saw Colton pinching Calvin’s arms and signaling him to enter the room. They both silently entered the room, and Bruce and Sophia were busy in, busy figuring out who would stay.

“You three are trained with all the lies. I will mess up badly. So, I’m going toward the doctor’s cabin.”, Saying this, he looked down to say BYE to both kids, but TADA, they were not there. Even Sophia noticed that at that moment.

Bruce peeked inside and found they were trying to climb on Brandon’s bed. And finally, with the help of a nurse, they were on the bed in the next moment.

“They are smart.”, he chuckled before leaving. Sophia, too peeked inside and saw them with Brandon.

“Arya!!!”

“Don’t worry. I’m staying.”, She said with a smile. And after that, both Sophia and Eden left toward the doctor’s cabin, who had held not-so-good news with him.

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Brandon had closed his eyes but wasn’t sleeping with both his babies and walked inside the room silently. The Nurse that had informed everyone was inside and was surprised to see them instead of any adults. They smiled at her and kept fingers on their lips, signaling her to keep quiet. That Nurse looked at them in amusement.

Then they tried to climb onto the bed silently, but the height of the bed in the hospital was more than the bed at their home. So, in the end, the Nurse helped them.

Brandon felt some movement on the bed and quickly opened his eyes.

“Boooo” Calvin shouted, raising his hand near his head and fingers in a claws design.

Brandon's jaw dropped seeing both the kids who looked so familiar to him.

“I told you, Calvin. Dad won’t get scared.”, Colton said, arching his eyebrow in a duh tone. Just like him.

Brandon got the second shock of the day, hearing DAD from a kid, and the third shock of the day was the other kid had just behaved like him.

Yes! The first shock was that both of them looked just like him.

‘It means Jake wasn’t lying last night. Maybe he had seen the same kids.’, he thought. ‘But their face, matching with mine, can be coincidence, right?’ Because the only woman I ever slept with was my Ex-wife, and as long as… hold on? Could they be Sophia’s and my …’

“Dad! You don’t look like the way Mom had described us. But you will have to get back into shape, right Colton?”

“Yes! We don’t like these long hairs like Tarzan and these long mustaches and beards. You won’t be allowed to kiss us in this look.”, Colton said, touching Brandon’s rough hair and beard and mustache.

That was when Arya came inside the room, and her eyes changed for a while, looking at Brandon.

‘What a werewolf is doing here?’ Brandon wondered.

“Aunt Arya! Finally, we met our dad.”, Calvin chirped.

“Calvin! Hold your excitement, sweetie! Your dad is still ill, and Sophia will expect from both of you not to disturb him a lot.”, Arya said indirectly.

And Brandon understood her hint because Arya could have used the word ‘your mother’ instead of Sophia, but she didn’t. She willingly told him what he was unaware of until now.

“I’m not disturbing him, do I, Dad?” Calvin asked innocently.

These were my babies. MINE. Tears started dwelling in his eyes looking at them, he wanted to talk to them, but he couldn’t; for the first time, he was feeling ashamed that his mouth was stinking that bad that his babies my run away, smelling his foul scent.

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#TBC