Chapter 57 - TAKE HER

It's not about how big the house is, it's about how happy the home is.

-Unknown-

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Lise was trying her best to keep a smile on her face, but she couldn't help taking an extra glance every now and then at the empty glass in Gael's hand.

"What is it?" Gael stopped talking to the guests, who came to him to make small talk, offering congratulations, blessings and the formalities that entailed behind it.

He could feel Lise's eyes on him so often, thus he thought she wanted to say something.

But, Lise shook her head and spoke softly. "I am tired." She tried her best to hide her nervousness and curiosity about how long the poison would take the effect on him.

It had been ten minutes, but Lise couldn't see any sign that the poison had any effect on him. Or maybe it was not strong enough?

Lise shook her head again, but in Gael's eyes, she looked anxious, making him think maybe it was because of her pregnancy.

"Let's rest," Gael said to her in a light tone and talked to the man beside him about something before he ushered his bride away from their own wedding.

"But, the guests?" Lise looked at all the people, who were staring at her and Gael, because the two of them were walking away from their own event.

"There will be people to take care of them, you need to rest," Gael told her, and ignored her other concerns, as he took her to the spare room, which was indeed prepared for them to take some rest.

It was a big room consisting of a king sized bed and the decorations of the wedding along the walls, with a balcony not too far from them.

"Drink this," Gael said, giving a glass of water to Lise. "After that, you can take a rest."

Lise said nothing and only drank her water, but to her surprise, Gael knelt down in front of her and stared into her eyes intently.

"What is it?" Lise asked him, she was on alert because of the closeness between the two of them.

"I know that you don't love me, but can you stay for the baby?" Gael asked her, his voice was very soft and it almost felt like he was a different person from the abusive man that she knew. His voice almost sounded like he was pleading. "I will give you everything to make up for it."

Lise was lost for words, she didn't know what to say. She wanted to reach out her hand and touch his face when she saw tears streaming down his cheeks, but there was something in her that told her it was not right.

"Please stay." It was not an order, but a plea for her to stay with him.

"Why are you crying?" Lise could feel her throat tighten. Why couldn't she feel any sympathy for him? But, at the same time, her heart ached for him?

"Because I don't want to lose you…"

And that was the time when the power shut down and all the lights went off. Darkness surrounded them.

What was it? A power outage?

Gael stood up immediately, he was on alert now. He pulled Lise up and kept her close to him, by holding her waist quite tightly.

This situation was strange and he wouldn't let Lise out of his sight now.

"Stay close to me," he whispered, but the thing that he didn't know was; Lise was nervous for some other reason, something that she knew would happen.

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"No, stop… Uncle Anthony, stop," Blue said, and then tried to wriggle her hand out of Anthony's grip, but he was too strong and too occupied to pay attention to her refusal. "I don't want to go!"

"Mateo, is the car ready?" Anthony asked his beta, while running along the hall. He completely ignored the fact that his niece was trying to fight him.

"Yes, the car is waiting for us by the south exit," Mateo replied, as he ran beside Anthony and Blue, while there were three other men following behind them.

"I don't want to go!" Blue cried in frustration. She didn't want to go with her uncle. She barely knew him.

If it was two years ago, she would have gone with him without question, but now she had a place to stay and she loved being with them.

"I don't want to go!" Blue screamed and clawed Anthony's hand in her attempt to get him off of her.

Anthony cried in surprise, his brows wrinkled when he noticed his bleeding hand because Blue had clawed him.

Though the wounds would heal in a matter of minutes, he was shocked because she attacked him.

"What are you doing?" Anthony asked in disbelief, he didn't seem angry, just shocked.

"I told you I don't want to go!" Blue said clearly. She had her back against the wall. This corridor was deserted, there was no one there, except them.

Mateo and the other three people looked at each other, they couldn't understand why this little girl refused to be rescued.

"You are not serious about choosing to live with them, right?" Anthony took a step closer, but he stopped because he saw how tense the girl was. She was in the position ready to attack him once she felt threatened.

"I want to stay with them." Blue emphasized every word that she said. "I don't want to go with you." She looked around her.

Blue knew it was a futile attempt to hope for this kind of wish, but she couldn't help it.

Chaos… where are you? I don't want to go with them…

Mateo stepped forward and spoke something incredulous. "She must be under some spell that makes her doesn't want to leave those creatures."

Albeit it sounded ridiculous, but Anthony seemed to believe it.

"Take her," he gave an order with his alpha's voice, while the three men there surrounded the little girl.

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