Chapter 24: Chapter 24

Third Person's POV

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Sophia was filled with so many things that she felt like she would bust like a balloon if her emotions wouldn’t come out, and she knew that she couldn’t do that in front of kids or in the hospital, and Eden could sense that that was why she didn’t want to leave Sophia alone!

Eden could smell her emotions, and she was filled with regret and guilt.

“I’m driving the car,” Eden said when Sophia looked at her after reaching their car. Sophia didn’t agree with that. Eden unlocked the car, and then they both settled inside it.

“To where?”

“You’re not planning to jump in the river again, are you?” Eden asked, recalling the previous incident.

“I have a responsibility of my babies on my shoulder, and you’re thinking that I will think of suicide?”, She snapped.

“Sorry! My bad.”, Eden apologized, knowing that she should just keep quiet and wait till Sophia would finally calm down. After reaching the bridge, Sophia stared at the water under it for a while and grabbed the cemented railing before screaming as loud as she could and started crying.

‘I was enjoying my time with my babies and building my career, but not once did I check on him. Why? Why didn't I?’

Sophia screamed again.

‘How could I blame him for Caroline’s death when he had no idea what was coming next? Just because she wasn’t his blood? But a part of me always knew that he loved her as his own.’

Sophia screamed again.

‘How could I be so selfish not to share the news of my pregnancy with him when I knew that we both had lost the light of our life? And just like mine, his life too had gotten filled with darkness, but I kept the new hope, new light of OUR life to myself.’

Sophia screamed again

‘Why the hell I did even listen to his nonsense that night. Why did I leave the house? Why didn’t I fight back when I knew that his actions were far opposite to his words. Why? Why? Why?’

Sophia screamed again and again and again until she finally collapsed on the ground and started crying bitterly.

Eden let her cry because she knew that all these emotions needed to be out. Because once Sophia’s eyes would get clean from those tears, she could see the things clearly.

‘Babe, where is Sophia? Both pups started asking for her when they found Bruce alone.’ Arya asked through the mind link.

‘She was filled with so many things that she needed some time for herself.’

‘Oh! Is she okay?’

‘She will be okay.’

‘What did the doctor say?’ Arya asked, on which Eden told her everything and also the reaction of Sophia after it. ‘I don’t know what to say! I mean, I don’t think I have any right to speak anything because I don’t know anything about their past.’

‘Likewise. You can tell the pups that Sophia is at home to prepare evening snacks for them and to arrange everything for dinner.’

‘Okay.’

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After half an hour!!

“Sophia?” Eden touched her shoulder when she observed that Sophia had stopped crying, and she approached her. “Let’s go to the hospital. Pups are waiting for you, and not to forget, Brandon’s small operation is going to be conducted on his biceps tendon so that he can have regular dialysis until the matching donor is not found.”

“I… I don’t know how I can see him at that stage.”

“Okay. Then when his operation will be in the middle, then we reach there at the hospital.” Eden suggested exactly the same thing which Sophia wanted to hear

A tear rolled from her eyes before she spoke, “Years back, Eden, He was once shot here …”, pointing toward her lower abdomen. “ …..exactly at this place, but do you know what he did next?”

“What?”

“Instead of going to the hospital, he came near me. We were not on talking terms, that’s why we didn’t use live together at that moment, but still, he came to my room, on my bed, and snuggled into my arms. At the same time, I was sleeping like a dead man. I had no idea that he was sleeping beside me, and blood was oozing from his body.”

“That’s … that’s…”

“Insane, right? But I still remember his words, ‘I want to be beside you in every pain or at the time of death. So, that when any pain and death will visit me, I can happily embrace it knowing that I have you at that time.’”, Sophia chuckled, shaking her head. Hearing her, Eden was really tempted to know what could have happened between them because of which they had separated.

Okay! She had a slight idea that it had something to do with Caroline’s death. But how and what would have happened?

“Let’s go to the hospital.”, Sophia said. “I …. I have to see him before the operation.”

Finally.

“But before that, we will have to burger and fries along with chocolate lava cake for pups. It’s time for them to have evening snatches, and we have to lie to them again that whatever snacks you made were spoiled with excess salt so that they wouldn’t question much.” Eden paused before continuing, “Moon Goddess! I so hate lying to them all the time.”

“Hopefully, this lie thing will end soon because this is the last when we can call them babies or pups; after reaching five, I doubt we could lie to them this frequently.”

“Hope so!!”

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“I hope you’re not getting irritated, dad?” Calvin asked after continuously speaking for more than an hour. Brandon smiled and shook his head.

“Please don’t mind him. He is too excited and happy; that’s why he is speaking so much today. Generally, he doesn’t speak this much.”, Colton explained.

“I understand.”, Brandon responded. Thanks to Bruce, who understood his situation and got mouth a loot of mouth freshener for him so that he could speak to his babies rather than sit quietly. Though it didn’t help completely, but it controlled a lot of damage.

“I missed you so much, dad.”, Calvin said, wrapping his small hand around his waist and looking at him. “I wanted to play games with you just like other friends used to play with their dads.”

“Yes. And we also want you to fetch us from our Kindergarten.”, Colton said.

“And do you know, dad? From this year, we will start going to school. So, you will have to come with us at the time of admission.”, Calvin said in an exciting tone. “I want to be mad at you, but knowing that you’re sick, I can’t. The day before was my birthday, but you didn’t attend it, just sent some gifts.”, He complained with a pout.

“I’m sorry, baby,” Brandon apologized, even though it wasn’t his mistake in the first place. But then, he could see that his babies had spent their four years in the web of a lie. In case he would speak anything that would create confusion in their mind. “This was the last time I wasn’t present on your birthday. It wouldn’t happen again.”

‘So, my twins were born on 1st January.’, He thought and looked at Colton with a smile.

“My birthday is on 31st December.”, Colton said, remembering Eden’s words that his father had no idea about him or his brother.

“I’m sorry too, Colton.”, he said, caressing his cheek.

“It’s okay, dad. I’m not mad. Not after knowing that, after knowing why you were not with us.” Brandon felt for a while that Colton knew something that Calvin didn’t, but he didn’t pick that topic at that moment.

“We know that you were sick, dad. But do you know that we get a chance to celebrate our birthday so two days?” Calvin raised his hand in excitement. Seeing Calvin's happiness, he laughed, and all of a sudden, his pain increased. He somehow tried to hide it. He, too, wanted to talk to them other than a few words but was afraid that what if they would question back that why he being a father, didn’t know about them.

“By the way, why is Mom still not here? I’m feeling hungry.”, Calvin said, touching his stomach.

“You can tell Uncle Bruce; he will get you anything you want to eat.”, Brandon suggested.

“But mom will scold me if we will eat junk food again.”, he said with a pout. “Aunt Arya!! Why is she still not here?” he asked, turning his toward Arya.

Arya observed that only pups were the only ones who wanted the answer to that question.

“She’s almost here.”, She replied, and immediately the door opened, and more than kids, Brandon was excited to see his Ex-wife, but to his disappointment, it was Eden.

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#TBC