112. Be a good boy, Zade Jade's POV My legs quivered and the tautness in my knees made my stride slower. I placed a hand on my heart and pushed myself to hurry towards the Principal's cabin in Zade's school. My son is four, but every now and again I am summoned to his school to deal with the problems he creates for me. And the Principal rang me up not twenty minutes ago while I was working in the farms. She said it was an emergency and she sounded scared as hell. "Mrs. Watchman," I set the door ajar and stepped inside, panting. "Hey, mom! You're quite early this time." Zade was sitting cross-legged on the couch in Principal Watchman's cabin to her right, giving me a lopsided smile that reminds me of someone I left behind five years ago. He lifted his tiny right hand to salute at me when I noticed his burst knuckles. Fear roused up in my chest and I rushed towards him. On autopilot I collapsed to my knees and took both his hands to assess if he had more injuries. "Oh dear, what h

114. Zach's off to San Francisco Zach's POV The meeting with the Unholy Allies came to an end after six long hours of discussion. We came to an agreement to issue a warning to the fuckers who think they can take over the reins of the United States from us. Although Xan and Rogue voted in favor of blasting their headquarters and to put an eternal end to their threats. Conor, Evan and I voted to adopt nonviolence as our first move. We haven't had big wars in the last five years. Just some bickering and shoot-outs here and there. We didn't lose men or money over fights earlier and I don't want us to lose any now. So it's only fair to give the soldiers some respite from blood baths. I came back home in the early morning at two. The sky was dark and full of twinkling stars. I didn't think twice before taking myself to Lelah's room where she was cutely snuggled in her blanket. With my hands going on either side of her shoulders on the mattress, I bent down on her to kiss her forehead

116. Her new lover! Jade's POV"I know you like me too, Jade. Stop pretending like you are still in love with that asshole father of your son!" I ceased all motions and lifted my darkening face."Say that again?" I raised an eyebrow as my fingers tightened around the knife I was using to cut vegetables.Today is Sunday and this stupid man I have irritating me in my kitchen came here to drop the vegetables from our farm. He is Audrey, one of the workers working on the ranch for Turley.Dirty blond hair, dark blue eyes. He claimed that the other girls find him entrancing. He stood two inches taller than me. I dropped the knife as I was afraid I might just use it on him if he didn't stop being annoying. "I don't think I said anything wrong." He walked closer and took my hand."Let go before I kick you in the balls, Audrey." I growled and attempted to take my hand back.He's a year younger than me and the first time we met, I collided into him. He saved me. But that was not the end of i

118. A devil like his father Jade's POVZade came right in time while I was setting the table up for lunch. He ran in Turley's arms with the book and pen, and a folded paper in the other hand that I suppose is the letter."Nonna, I wrote a letter for my dad. Do you want to read it?" He said delightfully."You really wrote a letter without your mom's help? That's impressive." Turley made him sit in her lap and took the letter from him.I was serving veggies salad on her plate when I noticed her jaw dropping. She refused to blink her eyes and her eyebrows arched as she read the letter, thus piquing my interest."Did you really write this?" She asked in a voice full of shock."Sure, I did, Nonna. With my own hands." He showed his tiny hands with dots of ink all over his thumbs and forefingers. I was really curious to see what he wrote that left Turley wonderstruck. I took the letter from her and read it.I was seized by an electrifying jolt of overwhelming emotion when I finished readi

120. Will you hurt me, Zach? Zach's POVI felt the tremors of an earthquake in my core as I stared at Rogue's face. "You mean our Zade?" I don't know why I put it like that but I had no other way to ask it. As if Rogue knew my affection towards that boy, he slowly bobbed his head. I freed my hand from his grip and took two steps back. This feeling was vulnerable. I don't know why I was feeling like this! Zade was not my kid. It shouldn't bother me. But the little time I spent with him... It was more precious than spending years with someone. His face flashed across my gaze and I felt my eyes burning. I couldn't help but put him in Lelah's place. He was also someone's child and his parents must love him as much as I loved my daughter. For the sake of them, I had to free him from the rogues. Not to mention he was supposed to visit me today. We had a deal. So for the sake of that deal too, I whirled around and went up the stairs that took us to the first floor. "In that room." Rog