Tangled Hearts - The Alpha's Baby Mama-Chapter 31: You and the girls...

Selene POV

I reached out for Maeve again, but she pressed closer to Xavier tightening her hand around his neck.

"Maeve, come to me this instance," I said angrily, trying to remove her from Xavier’s grip.

"No!" she screamed "I don’t want to come with you,".

"Maeve," my tone went a touch higher "I am not in the mood to do this with you. Come with me this instant,".

"Let the girl be, Selene," Xavier said quietly "We should be talking about how to settle all of these now. A lot of things have happened no doubt and now that we’ve met each other, we should be together as family,".

"In your dreams, Xavier," I laughed "You think we’re ever going to be as family? Have you forgotten that I am engaged to be married to someone else? Besides you think after hurting me, that I’ll just walk into your arms, just like that? What do you take me for?"

"Selene, I..." he started to say.

"We’re never going to go back to what we were before. You are my past and I intend to keep it that way. Now give me the girl!".

Sighing, he removed Maeve from his arms and passed the sobbing girl to me. I could see hurt in his eyes but at this moment, couldn’t care less. Maeve was crying so hard and was refusing to stay put.

I dragged her to where Noah was standing and with a bright smile said.

"Ask the pilot to start the plane, we’re ready to go now,".

Noah looked behind my head, his gaze resting on his nephew for a moment before he sighed.

"Not like this, dear. You should at least talk to him and reach some sort of settlement. He’s the father of your children and nothing would change that,".

"I don’t want to," I said stubbornly "I know he’s your nephew and you’re trying to protect him but if I tell you half of the things, I suffered in the hands of that man, you won’t be saying this to me. Let’s just go, I’m exhausted,".

"Olivia," he cupped my face with his hands, his eyes gazing tenderly at me "I would feel like a fraud if things don’t get settled. Please...".

I rolled my eyes, hating the fact that Noah made sense. This was bound to happen, sooner or later, so we might as well get it over and done with.

"Fine," I said and stalked back to where he was standing.

As soon as we got closer to him, Maeve ran back to him, and entered into his arms. Vina was still standing behind me, I could feel her hesitating, I could tell she wanted to go to her dad too.

Noah came to stand behind me, "There’s a private lounge in the airport, we could go there and talk,". he suggested.

I brushed past Xavier, with Vina in my wake as I exited the plane. Few minutes after we exited the plane, barely a 100meteres away from it, when a loud eruption shook the ground sending us all flying in different direction.

For a moment, after I fell, everything seemed hazy. My ears were ringing and I just laid motionless on the ground. I don’t know how long I was there for but long enough for Noah to crawl to me.

"Oliva," I heard him shouting as he shook me gently. His voice sounded from afar and blood was oozing out from the side of his face. "Olivia, you’ve got to stand up, we need to get away from here, now," he said.

I tried to move but my body wouldn’t budge. I turned my head to the side, that was when I caught a glimpse of Xavier with Maeve and Vina in his hands, they all looks tattered with their hair sticking out from any corner and they were running towards me.

I couldn’t fell my legs, I couldn’t feel my hands, it seemed every part of my body had gone numb.

I felt myself being hoisted up and then running footsteps. I could hear people shouting all around me and all I wanted to do at that moment was close my eyes. A few seconds later, another loud eruption echoed.

"Stay with me, Olivia," I heard Noah’s voice again but this time, it seemed closer and clearer "You’ll be fine honey. I promise,".

My eyelids fluttered for a second as I stared at the blue sky, feeling my strength slowly ebbing away from my body and then, the world turned black.

***

Slowly, I came alive.

My gaze travelled the length of the room, taking note of the white walls that stared back at me and the blue curtains that hovered around the window. I turned my eyes and noticed there were two other beds in the room with me.

I blinked severally trying to make out the figures lying on the bed through my blurry vision. I froze in shock when it cleared and I saw that it was Maeve and Vina. I immediately, jerked into a sitting position and swung my legs out of the bed.

"Vina, Maeve," I cried out in alarm rushing towards them.

But as soon as my feet hit the ground, I crumpled to the floor.

"Selene, you’re awake," Xavier suddenly rushed to help me to my feet "You shouldn’t exert yourself too much, they doctor says you need rest,".

"The kids," I tapped at him, trying to get to them.

"They’re fine," he said dragging me back to my bed "They’re just resting. You’ve. Been unconscious for a while now," he explained settling me on my bed "The girls are fine, but we were worried about you,".

"Oh," I sighed in relief "They were lying so lifeless, that I thought something was wrong. What of Noah?" I asked looking around the room "Is he alright?"

"He sustained a few injuries but he has healed up properly," Xavier said. "How do you feel? Do you want anything? Should I call the doctor?" he asked.

I took in the anxiety in his brows and for a moment, I recalled the argument that we had before the incident.

"How about you? Are you fine?" My gaze travelled all over his body, stopping at his wrist, currently wrapped in a bandage.

"Yeah," he nodded giving me a smile "My healing is a lot slower but I feel better than I felt yesterday and do you know that the girls already have a wolf?" He said excitedly "I couldn’t believe m y eyes yesterday. They changed into their wolve forms in their sleep and by this morning, they were as good as new,".

"Yeah," I chuckled "They were born with,".

His eyes widened with surprise "Really?" he asked.

"Yeah," I nodded desperate to change th topic "By the way, do we know wht happened? Was anyone hurt?"

"We lost the pilot and a few of the airport staff that were onboard but else that everyone is fine. We’re working with the security to find out what happened but they think it’s a bomb,".

"A bomb?" But who could have dared? "The Lycan King was to travel with that,".

"Beats my imagination too," Xavier sighed "I think whoever it is that set the bomb didn’t calculate it well and so it exploded before it supposed time, I think but we think it’s the foxes or from our enemy pack. Lucius is looking into it at the moment,".

"Oh, goddess," I sighed "That was a deliberate ploy as far as I’m concerned. Whoever placed that bomb on that plane was targeting someone,".

"Yeah," Xavier nodded and said solemnly "I think it was you and the girls,".