Let Me Love You Again
Chapter 93

Lucas

I rang the ring bell and waited for the door to open. Shortly after the door opened and in front of me, there was a woman, dark hair tied back on her nape. She looked at me frowning.

“Hello, I have an order from the judge, I am here as a civil educator regarding the new child, Axel Dare,” I said and handed her the letter from the judge.

“Finally someone for that little critter. From the moment they brought him here, all he did was cry, his screams could already be heard in the car, he didn’t let sleep anyone in the house.”

My heart tightened and I entered after the woman stood to the side to let me pass.

The house was a mess, children running from one side to the other while Axel’s crying echoed everywhere.

“Did he eat?” I asked, taking off my purse and jacket.

The woman shook her head “Reject anything, the assistants who brought him this morning said that he did not eat even last night, but whatever we try to give him rejects, he threw several dishes on the ground. If it weren’t for Zeke, I’d have sent him back on his feet.”

“I’ll take care of him,” I said.

“Over there, he’s with my partner,” she said, pointing to the smaller salon to my right.

I immediately moved and entered the living room where there was another woman, with blond hair left loose. The woman was sitting in an armchair, in front of her there was a cradle with mesh walls, inside which I could see the little desperate Axel crying relentlessly. I immediately rushed to him who, as soon as he saw me, pulled himself up and put his arms on me.

I immediately took him, feeling the tears prick my eyes as I wrapped him with my arms and held him to me.

“Axel no bad” he began to sob, “Axel want mommy,” he said with his hoarse voice for crying “Daddy”.

I hid my face in his neck and began to rock him as the woman left. I sat in the chair with him in my arms, trying to calm him down as much as possible.

“Soon you’ll see Mom and Dad again, okay?” I said in his ear.

Axel laid his head on my shoulder, exhausted, slowly calming down and had stopped crying. He needed to have someone close to him that he knew, he needed his affections, and I wanted to strangle everyone who dared to make a little creature suffer like that.

It wasn’t long before Axel fell asleep in my arms. I put him in a more comfortable position and let him sleep. He had red cheeks and was a bit warm, his face streaked with tears and his hair messed up.

One of the two women came up to me with Axel’s bag in her hand and laid it on the armrest, and I went inside and grabbed his pacifier and shoved it in her mouth.

“Please tell me you’re staying here,” said the woman in despair.

“Until he’s with his parents again, I won’t leave,” I answered moving a few tufts of blond hair from Axel’s forehead.

The phone vibrated in my pocket and I tried to get it out without shaking the baby too much. I immediately responded by seeing Jess’s name appear on the screen.

“Jess,” I said quietly.

“Are you there?” he asked me straight.

“Yes, right now, he’s sleeping on my lap,” I said, looking down at Axel’s angelic face.

“How is him?” Jess asked.

“Desperate, he did nothing but cry since yesterday, he ate nothing and did not let anyone touch him, when I arrived he was in tears and as soon as I took him he relaxed and fell asleep. When he wakes up, I try to make him eat,” I sighed.

I hear a heavy breath from Jess, “Please don’t walk away from him, I can’t imagine him being alone.”

“I’m not going to walk away from him,” I said.

I didn’t want to leave him at all, not after seeing and perceiving the despair that emanated, I couldn’t turn my back and leave him alone, I never would.

“I’m counting on you, Luc,” Jess said.

Nate

Three days later

Three days had passed, three days of despair, sleepless nights. Maya had spent all her time in bed, had eaten very little, and what she ate was vomiting, which had caused concern in everyone. We had been forced to call the gynaecologist who had come to visit her at home, bringing a portable device with which she had monitored the baby.

It was not an easy situation and, as much as the advice was always the same, no stress and just rest, for her it was impossible to maintain.

We were worried. We didn’t see Axel in four days, we only got a little information through Jess.

We knew that Lucas had practically gone to live in the group home where our baby was kept, we knew that for the first two days he had refused any person approaching or any food, But with the presence of Lucas, he had calmed down and had begun to eat and sleep, remaining 24 hours a day attached to Lucas who could not even go to the bathroom without him.

After four days of hell, we were called by the judge in charge of the case. My father and all our lawyers had moved heaven and earth to speed up the time, they had used any trick and finally, in a few hours, we could talk to the judge.

The son of a b***h Brad had been called, I could not understand why, but according to Dad his presence was necessary to close the issue permanently.

I was anxious as I tied my tie, my hands were shaking, and all I could do was think about Axel. I missed him like crazy, my heart was shattered into thousands of pieces and only his presence could have cured him.

Maya entered the room and stopped in front of the mirror where she began to apply some tricks to cover the dark circles that had been with her for days, as they did with me.

After finishing her make-up she tied her hair in a high tail and approached me.

“Can you close the zipper?” she asked me gently with his back to me.

I grabbed the zipper of her black and white dress and pulled up, replaceing some difficulty at the abdomen height, strained the zipper and pulled it up completely, after finishing Maya turned and I looked at her.

The dress was a bit tight, and the swollen breasts were highlighted as well as the hint of belly that you could now see.

I looked right into her red eyes.

“It’ll be all right,” I told her and approached to give her a k**s on the forehead, “We’ll get him back today,” I said, trying to reassure her.

Maya nodded and leaned at me, I hugged her, while she rested her head on my chest, I didn’t know if I could hear the beat of my heart because it seemed to me that it was gone.