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Brandon’s POV
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“Don’t worry; I will bring her soon. Until then, you can have the things in the parcel.” I was about to leave when she quickly reached near me and gave me a bone-crushing hug for a few seconds.
“I missed you.”, She whispered before kissing my right cheek. The hair on my body stood because of the goosebumps. But soon, she moved back too. I stared at her dumbfounded for a while and then took Caroline from there.
For the first time, I left that Sophia was trying to hide something, something that I couldn’t point out right now. Her natural skin was coated with makeup. That… that was so unlike her. Everything could lie but not her puffed eyes, which were screaming loudly that she had cried a lot.
Did she miss me that much?
Or did she hate staying caged like an animal?
“Caro, look there; what is it?” I said, diverting her mind on which she looked in the direction of my hand. “That’s an airplane.” She looked at it, still crying a little. But soon she started crying again. I tried all my tricks, but it didn’t work on her. She looked irritated and angry. She even hit me a couple of times and pulled my hair.
I looked at Bruce for help, but he just grinned.
Bastard!!
“Whoever will make Caroline stop from crying. I will forgive their one tiny mistake.”, I announced, and in no time, all my thirteen warriors were in front of me to try their luck.
I knew it.
I fucking knew that they wouldn’t have listened to Bruce’s order to protect Sophia but did something happen in between that hour?
I could see even they were failing miserably in calming Caro. “I think I should take her to hospital. Maybe the doctor could tell that what happened to her?”
“As for now, I can see a little bump on her head. Maybe that happened.”, Bruce said. “Stop worrying that much,” he added.
Suddenly Lucas shifted in front of her. ‘What the hell? She will now cry more.’
But Caro immediately stopped crying and looked at the big grey wolf in front of her. She looked at it with Aww expression. She started bouncing in Joshua’s arm to touch Lucas’s wolf.
“Joshua, keep her on grass.”, I said, on which he did the same. She looked at everyone first and then Lucas’s wolf, who also sat in front of her. She forwarded her hand to touch Lucas’s snout, but he was not that close to her. Caroline started trying to reach near it. She started rocking back and forth on hands on knees for a while and tried to move forward but looked unsure whether she could do it or not.
I couldn’t miss capturing this moment.
“Lucas, shift a little farther.”, I said, pulling out my mobile.
“Do you think she will start crawling early?” Bruce asked.
“Not sure. But I want to see what she will do.”, I said truthfully. “Yes, Caro. You can do it. Go and touch it.”, I motivated her on which she looked at me.
“Dada”
“Yes, princess!! Go ahead.”
“Go ahead, Daddy’s Princess,” Bruce too motivated her.
And there she goes!! She crawled for the first time with the motivation of touching Lucas’s wolf snout. She giggled when she finally achieved her tiny small goal.
But I wasn’t the only one who was happy. I looked at my surrounding, and everyone looked happy. I chuckled, thinking how a baby could brighten everyone’s mood.
“Where is Iris?”
“I don’t know when I came here; she wasn’t not here.”
“Keep an eye on her.”
“Why? What happened?” Bruce asked, to which I didn’t answer his question. “Sometimes, it’s too hard to predict what you’re thinking. I wonder whether your pup will also be like you?” he teased, on which I glared.
“One day, I will kill you for sure.”
“You didn’t tell me about you and Sophia, you both…..” he pointed out. “Aaaa.. you bastard!! Put me down.”, he cried because all of a sudden, he started flying. I knew he was afraid of height, but he should have thought about it before messing with me. I looked up where he was, and my eyes landed on the window where Sophia was standing, looking at me.
“You can have your romance later; first, put me down.”
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Sophia’s POV
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I watched Caroline’s enjoying herself with those werewolves. However, a part of me was scared of the fear what if they would hurt her or eat her alive.
That mere thought was scary, but the only relief was that Brandon was there. I saw her crawling for a few seconds and sat again after touching her snout. I smiled at her little success.
I was in so much pain that I didn’t watch to eat anything that Brandon had brought, but I knew he would feel suspicious if I wouldn’t finish it. So, after I finished my snacks, I messaged Brandon to bring Caroline so that she, too, could have her food. After that, she could play again, but the moment Brandon picked her in his arms to bring her inside, she started crying again. Maybe she realized that he was taking her inside.
Brandon didn’t force her and placed her on the ground again and said something to one of the men near him.
After a while, that man came back with something in the bowl.
I walked toward the bed to lie down, after knowing that they would take at least more than half an hour to return now. I was about to close my eyes when my phone rang, displaying Oliver’s call.
“Hi, Oli. Did brother Owen find anything about our mother’s death?”
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#TBC