Chapter 19

HENRY POV

Where is he? He was supposed to be here an hour ago, why is it taking him long? The only reason I agreed to stay with him is because I miss them. I miss living with my family and I miss waking up with Jace by my side, without them I don't know what to do with my self. There a gaping hole in my chest that is only filled when I am around them. So yes it may be a stupid thing to do but I want to remain with Jace and the kids.

But right now I need to know where they are, they were supposed to come and pick me up at the hospital as I am getting discharged today. Something doesn't feel right and I have this weird feeling in my stomach, something is not right and I don't know what it is.

I need to find Jace and the kids but I have to sit tight and wait for them. Robbie had to go since his fight was thirty minutes ago, he had to go back home to his husband, I can't thank him enough for coming to be with me these past few months I don't think i would have survived that long if Jace didn't come to see me in all these months in the hospital , I mean I know I was mad at him but seriously when you love someone you tend to want them around even though you are mad at them.

I find my way to the nurses station I need to get a phone to call Jace I'm really getting worried and stress is really not good for the baby since I have like one month to go as I am seven months and two weeks heavy.

"Hello." I greet a young looking nurse manning the station.

"Hi, how can I help you?" She asks smiling at me. She sounds so nice.

"Well my boyf- uh i mean my friend was supposed to come get me but he isn't here yet and I am super worried. Can you give me your phone so I can call him and find out where he is?" I say trying to keep my voice straight without any breakage because I feel like I'm going to burst into tears anytime now.

"Of course sweetie, here you go." She says handing me her phone. I dial the number that can never be erased from my heart or my mind. It rings for a while but he doesn't pick up. What's happening? I don't like this feeling in my stomach, I just wan tot know what is going on. I try again but still no response.

"Thanks for the phone. The person I am trying to call isn't responding, I guess I can call an Uber or something-" I stop talking when I see Jace coming in with crying children. My crying children. Who made my babies cry? When I find out I am going to inflict pain on that person. I move as fast as my swollen legs could carry me towards my crying children and clueless partner because he looks like he doesn't know how to make them stop crying.

Jace sees me coming towards him and a look of relief comes over him and he looks like all the tension left his body. I get closer and take the closer crying baby I can get. Which is Aaron. He cuddles his face closer to me and his cries settles slowly but surely. Jace tries to tell me something but I cut him off.

"We will talk about why you're late later tell me why they are crying and tell me now."

"Well that is a long story but to cut it short, their mother has something to do with it." He looks around the waiting room and how we are standing right in the middle.

"Can we talk about this when we get home we're kinda causing traffic in the middle of the hospital."

"Sure. Let me have her." We exchange babies and I try my best to make Anaya stop crying while Jace goes to get my bags. She is a bit of a drama queen. Wait last time I checked I had three kids. Where is Alfie? I looked around and didn't see him. Jace is coming with my bags and as he gets closer I notice that he looks worn out and tired. What the hell happened today.

"Come on lets go, Alfie is in car. The kids had a rough afternoon and they wont be going to school for a while." I didn't respond as we made out way to the car, Amaya still making a fuss in my arms.

The ride home was a tense one as we all had things on our minds. Even Alfie was quiet, I tried to make sure he was ok but I couldn't get through to him. I just hope this is something ice cream and cuddles can fix.

We get home and put the kids to bed. Now Alfie was a different thing all together, I need to know what happened so I have to talk to Jace, I don't like seeing my baby like this. My feet hurts but that is nothing compared to the pain of seeing Alfie so sad and withdrawn.

"Come on baby, lets get you ready for bed ok." Alfie doesn't respond and just nods following me into his room. I take off hos clothes. He didn't want to take a bath so I just help him change into his pyjamas and all through he didn't make a sound and that worries me.

"Come on baby sleep for a bit and its gonna be better in the morning. Goodnight baby." He nods and faces the wall not saying anything to me. What is going on?

With determined strides, I made my way to Jace, I need to get to the bottom of this. He was in his room or should I say our room, he was sitting on the bed lost in his thoughts. He raises his head hp when I come in.

"Explain, what is going on, why wont Alfie say a word, I need to know and I need to know now." Jace gets up and moves closer to me, I move to step back but stop myself waiting to see what he would do but he just stops in front of me. I look up knot the face of the man I love with my life and I wonder of we can ever move past this, if I can overcome my fear and we can start over or pick up from where we left off. We stare at each other for what feels like hours.

He puts his hands on my shoulder while his other hand cups my cheek and as usual I feel my face become red hot. He smiles at me although he still has that tired look in his eyes and then moves me to the bed.

"You need to sit down you have been standing for way too long. Relax and I will tell you everything."

Sitting down, I give him an exasperated look, like I'm sitted so tell me everything.

"Well Elaine, my ex is fighting me for custody, she is going to lose badly but the point is that she has made such an impact on Alfie that when he saw her today-" I cut him off.

"He saw her today!!!" He takes my hand in his.

"Yes he did, she came to the house when I was about to go pick him from school and got into it, honestly that woman is infuriating, I don't know how I ever married someone like that. Anyway long story short she left after I told her politely to leave my house and I went to pull Alfie out of school because I didn't want him to be caught in between a battle between I and his mother, who knows what stunts the bitch would pull."

"Turns out I was right. After picking up Alfie we made our way to pick up the twins and that is when shit hit the fan."

***flashback in Jace POV***

"What are you doing her Elaine? I told you to leave my family alone." I came to pick up the twins and here she is. She is struggling with the crying twins while the lady at the front desk and Celia (I don't know if I gave anyone in the day are a name.), the woman that looks after the kids are arguing with her trying to get them back from her but she just isn't budging.

"They are my children, I have a right to take them whenever I want and you can't stop me." Thank God Alfie is waiting for me in the car if not he will be terrified at seeing his personal monster again. After she left, it took a while for him to let go of the damage that had been done to him but we made it work and I got my baby boy back. I will not let her ruin all the progress he has made to forget about her. He cannot know that she is here.

"I think you will find that I can and I will." I take my children from her hands trying to stop them from crying.

" It's okay, I've got it from here." I told the caretakers and they left trying to soothe the other children as the whole scene had them rattled.

"And if I see you anywhere near them, you will never, ever live to do anything else ever again." I would have said more but I heard the door opening, I just hope that is not who I think it is.

"Daddy, what's taking so long? Daddy..... What's she doing here. What does she want Daddy. She cant be here. You cant be here, why are you here??" All this is accompanied with tears rolling down his eyes and I am helpless to stop the pain he is experiencing. It's like all the memories came crashing down on him all at once.

"Sweety come on, Daddy's here, come on lets go." He leaves the building with me following behind him. Now all my kids are crying because of one woman that doesn't even deserved to be called a mother.

"I don't want to see you around them, this is my last warning. We can go to court, but just remember, you asked for this. Stay away from my kids"

***end flashback***

HENRY'S POV

"And when I got to the car Alfie wiped all emotion from his face and has been a blank wall ever since. I tried to get him to talk to me but nothing I tried seemed to work, I don't know what to do to get him to open up. I don't know what to do." His head in his hands, he looks so dejected and emotionally wiped out. I pull him into my arms and rested his head on my chest. I catch a glimpse of a tear dropping from his eyes but didn't say anything.

He is showing me a side I have never see before. I never thought I would ever see. Since I met him he has always been the strong one its my turn to be strong for him.

"Let it all out sweetie, its okay you don't have to do it alone. I'm here and I'm not going anywhere. I'll never leave you or the kids, I love you guys too much. If I had gone with Robbie I am so sure I would be so miserable right about now." He laughs from his position on my chest. When he raises his head up he still has an amused look on his face.

"You looove us." Sometimes I swear Jace behaves like a child.

"Of course I love you guys, no matter what. I know what happened between us and even though I felt betrayed and I felt like my whole world was crashing down around me, I never stopped loving you." He shakes his head and sighs.

"Baby I swear, what you saw, nothing happened she forced it. I never meant for it to happen I swear."

"Shhhh, I know." Kissing his cheek and looking into his eyes that keeps dragging me in.

" I know nothing happened, I mean if you think about it I was a bit irrational. I blame hormones, everything at that moment was intensified and then there was this fear of everyone in my life that I have ever loved always leaving me. I didn't want you to be the one that left because if you had then I really would have been destroyed."

"I wanted to protect myself from pain and I ended up hurting all of us and for that I am sorry." We hug tightly. Relief at being so close together after so long.

"Baby you have nothing to be sorry for I shouldn't have let her get so close and now with every thing going on with Alfie and then custody issues I am glad we had this conversation and if you will have me I would love to be your boyfriend again and maybe in the future something more."

"I mean I am going to be your baby Daddy." I laugh at that, like a full blown belly laugh. One of joy and happiness. Things may not be perfect but we will work on it.

"Yes I would love if you became my boyfriend again, Baby Daddy." We seal it with a kiss.

One thing is for sure, I have missed kissing this man. From tomorrow I have to work on making my babies happy, hopefully this custody issue and what's going on with the ex will be over when I bring my bundles of joy into the world.

"So what are we going to do about Elaine, the bitch that made my babies cry, I swear when I see her I'm going to claw her eyes out so hard she is going to be blind and deaf for life." Jace looks at me fondly and sated, I'm sure I had the same look on my face which is now displaying anger at the thought of that bitch. She makes me so mad.

"Calm down sweetheart, we are going to settle this in the court room and the only way this is going to end is with her going to Prison."

Hey, I changed POV mid-chapter. Hope its ok I couldn't really explain what happened at the daycare without changing the point of view from Henry to Jace.

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