Chapter 77: 77

"So ready?" I asked.

"Yes", both of them said in a loud tone.

"So who’s going to count numbers?" I asked.

"I will as this idiot doesn’t know and he will be like a wooden stick like the previous time", she again teases the little boy.

"Ok count to 50. You know how to right?" I asked.

"Of course, I did teach them with Aunt Kylie", she jumped while I walked out of the room with Josh.

"1"

"2"

"3"

She already started counting while I ended up struggling with where to hide. When I came out of the room I saw them there. Why don’t they just get out of my life? Gosh, it’s annoying.

"Josh, where should we hide?" I asked.

"Umm dwont know", he said with a sad face.

"Ayla, what are you playing?" Jace asked.

"Ah hide and seek", I replied.

"Should I play too?" he asked, looking at Josh. I never knew he was struggling to get close to his son so much. His face tells him he does not have much of an emotional expression but always hides just like a typical father.

"Ok, let’s play", I said.

Three of them started finding a place in each room while again those intruders stopped my way.

"Ah, can we play too?" I ended up holding my head when James came forward and asked on the behalf of the other two.

"Do as you want", I said while I ran holding Josh.

"35"

"36"

"37"

"Hide, hide the brat is coming", I said while bringing Josh to the garden.

"Aunt, there is a place", he said while pulling me toward a tree which looks so crowded with leaves around.

"We won’t be found like this", he said while we hid.

I was still hiding when I heard some sound from the place we were hiding as if someone was coming my way.

Did Ayla finish counting?

Maybe she did and found us also.

I closed my eyes but to my surprise, it was not Ayla but Aaron who came to hide beside me making my heart throb.

I didn’t say anything.

"Aunt, the bad uncle is here", Josh said.

"Ignore it, baby, we are ignoring", I kissed his forehead.

I again stayed silent but I kept on checking to look through the leaves if Ayla was able to find it or not. But I ended up finding Jace and James struggling to find a place like a kid.

If this goes on they are going to expose my place too and Ayla is going to get angry if she finds us easily.

I stood up.

"Hey, you two, don’t act like toddlers and go hide under the bed or behind the door. At least think this much", I said and hide again.

I kept on peeking from time to time when I felt his face so near me making my heart beat faster.

"What the hell are you doing", I asked in a low tone.

"I too am trying to see her", he said as if he knows nothing like an innocent child.

"Oh really but I don’t think she will come to find you but only me, Josh and Jace", I said.

"Why won’t she? I’m here dad too", as he said my hand was in the place of his throat choking him with all the strength I have got.

"If you say the word one more time out of your insolent lips then I wouldn’t even spare a single moment to kill you no matter who you are", I was glaring at him this whole time when I found Josh started resembling, making me scared as well.

"No, baby nothing happened. Don’t be scared. Aunt is here", I said, patting his head while I saw Ayla coming this way.

"Josh hush", I silenced him but I knew she would find me but at the same time, Aaron pulled me by my waist making me sit between his legs.

What th-

"Shh", he shushed me.

My body behaved as he said, making me lost in the moment but soon when the light fell on my fade I realised Ayla found us.

"What the hell is this uncle doing here", she was totally glaring.

"Mom, is he troubling you again," she said and pulled me toward her as well Josh.

"Didn’t I said not to touch mom without my permission? Who the hell are you to hold her", she was burning in anger but I couldn’t calm her down until he spoke.

"And who are you to order me to touch what is already mine?" he glared at her too.

"She is my mom!!!!" she shouted, making my ears go numb for a while.

"She is my wife", as he said I take my steps backwards.

Wife? Am I hearing right?

Did he really say, wife? How absurd? It hasn’t been an hour since the argument happened and he said I’m his wife. I couldn’t handle my emotions anymore. Each time my emotions get triggered for no reason. I feel suffocated.

I walked toward the inside when Ayla called me.

"Mom, what is she saying?"

"You married this man?"

"Tell me, mom!!" She started asking me several questions when though I never told her the meaning of marriage or relationships, she still knows plenty of things which are out of my thinking.

"Mom, he is lying right?" she asked.

"Yeah he is lying", I said while she happily turned inside with Josh making me again stand in a dilemma.

"Ayla, she found you too?"Jace asked while I stayed silent.

"Why silent? Did something happen? Did this guy say something again ?" He was almost about to go on a dual. James and the woman were presented here too but I’m standing here in the middle of them like a criminal.

"Tell me, what did he say?" he asked.

"I said she is my wife", Aaron said, making Jace even angrier.

"Ha ha ha ha"

I laughed out loud.

"Ha ha ha ha"

I’m getting scared of myself too.

"Ayla", Jace called.

"Ha ha ha ha", I kept on laughing.

"Wife?"

"What a weird title right?"

"Ha ha ha ha"

"Ayla", all called my name again with concern.

"Just to get my daughter he was claiming me as his wife when he himself wasn’t even aware of the existence of her."

"He was having a nice engagement time with his fiancee without knowing he had a child who was about to be born", I keep on letting out my hidden emotions when I don’t want to.

"Ayla", that woman touched my shoulder but I pushed her making her fall into the muddy garden.

"Ayla, what the hell are you doing? She could have hurt", James showed concern but I don’t care.

"She could have been hurt? Ha, she could have been hurt? Really then what is the price of my life? Did you know how I felt like dying from the moment Aaron came into my life?

First, he didn’t defend me when I was getting bullied and I ended up staying in a coma for a year with zero memories of mine. Second, you ended up lying to me and did fake dating with me and being with my cousin. And third, when I came to know I finally got the first love of mine, when I realised I was having a baby soon with the person I loved for years made me feel my existence was a joke. So what was the price of my life?"

I can’t believe I have been saying all of this to those people who never valued me.

"Ayla, it’s not that I don’t know you are in pain", James tried to say.

"Then what? You know there was q point when I thought I m going to lose my Ayla because the moment I recover my memory I was hanging holding on to a rock which was the only way of mine to survive or I and Ayla both would have fallen down a cliff and no one could have to know my existence and no one could have come and claim my baby."

He looked down.

"I don’t even know why I’m telling you all this but I don’t want to give my Ayla to anyone," I said holding my dress tightly when I saw Ayla again coming out of the door.

"Mom, what is taking you so long?"

"Come, quickly... Rats keep on running on my stomach as if they could come out any time", she said.

"Oh, that’s a serious issue", I acted.

"So what will you eat?" I asked.

"I would like to have a pomegranate. They have a sweet taste with some tangling taste with them. And yeah I want to have spicy spaghetti as well", she said.

"Oh Aaron loves them", James said but I ignored them.

"Oh ok I’m coming", I said and ran toward her.

"I’m coming too", Jace said and ran after me.

"Ah you both kept both me and Josh stay hungry", she whined making me chuckle.

"I’m so sorry baby", I said.

"Ok, I forgive you."

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