Divorced Ex-Luna Returns With Triplets
Chapter Seventy-Eight: Custody Of The Kids

Maurene'S POV

I sat in the corner, staring into space as several thoughts twirled in my mind. How could he? How could he demand for the kids when he was the one who divorced me?! How broken and surrendered he looked made my heart break and I had no choice but to take Heit with me.

Tears dripped down my face as I threw my head back, pulling my lips together. Heit has been avoiding me since we left his father's pack. I knew it had always been his dream to finally meet his father and when he did, he didn't even get to spend more time with him. Kyle and Kylie already knew about what their brother did and silence seemed to be the order of the day since then.

He refused to eat and speak to anyone. He wanted his father and I was scared that it was the only thing I hesitated to give him. Nathaniel would take them away from me and they were all I had. All I lived for. The reason I kept pushing each day. Despite the betrayal from Liam and Nathaniel, I didn't give up because I had them and wanted to have them protected.

My phone vibrated on the bed and I stared at the bright light illuminating from it. Feeling less motivated to check who the caller was. It stopped and after some seconds, it rang again. I still didn't move. It stopped and didn't ring again. I let out a sigh of relief, afraid that I knew who was calling me but I didn't want to speak to him yet. In fact, I didn't want to speak to him at all. He hid such a big thing from me while all I ever did was lay myself bare for him. If he thinks I was going to forgive him easily, he got it all wrong.

"No! Liam, you cannot... She is not... please... I will have her... I don't think she can..." Diana's voice made me jerk my head up as footsteps thudded loudly.

I didn't bother standing up as my door flung open, revealing a frustrated Liam who was glancing around the room frantically. His eyes fell on me and I watched his chest heave with a last breath.

I rose to my feet, keeping my face passive and indifferent. "And why are you here?" I asked coldly. So cold that he flinched at my tone.

"Maurene, you..." He moved forward to hold me but I backed up, keeping my hands to myself as his hands hung mid-air. He swallowed hard, lifting his eyes to meet mine.

I arched a brow. "Don't you have things you have to take care of?" I questioned, remembering how he always told me he had things to take care of. Then he would walk away. Keeping in his dark. His identity. His secrets. Everyone of them. He hid them all of from me.

"I... I heard of what happened. You must be..."

"Fine." I cut him off. "I am totally fine. Thank you for asking. You may take your leave." I said immediately, turning around to leave for the bathroom. At least he would not follow me inside.

"Maurene," he called after me but I slammed the door shut and locked it. I slid down to the floor and hugged myself. Each one of them kept their secrets from me.

Now I wondered why Liam held me close to him. Maybe he wanted to use me to get Nathaniel. But we were divorced.

Drowned in my thoughts, a knock rattled on the door and I flinched. Gulping hard when I didn't hear Diana's voice, I considered Liam to be the one but I let my curiosity get the best of me. The moment I pulled the door open, my kids rushed in and hugged me. I didn't get the time to think as my arms wrapped around them. Tears brimmed my eyes once again as I felt the warmth of their embrace.

"I'm sorry." I kept muttering. Apologizing for hiding their father from them. I have thought about it and realized that it was callous of me to do that to them. They never deserved not to know their father. I thought I was punishing Nathaniel. What I didn't know was that they were also suffering from it.

My kids have always wanted their father and that was one thing I have deprived them of. Was I a wicked mother?

Not because I couldn't wound up on Nathaniel and tell him about them. If he chose not to believe me then I could have conducted a DNA test to prove but I didn't. I held onto them and it was selfish of me to do that. I had allowed the pain Nathaniel had caused me to overshadow my thoughts. I should give myself the freedom I deserved. I cannot allow

We pulled away and they stared at my teary eyes. Heit reached to wipe away the tears on my cheeks.

"Sorry, mommy," Kylie said softly, cleaning my cheeks with her small hands. "We are sorry, Mommy for making you cry." her face scrunched up like she wanted to cry. I quickly pulled her to me as I stared at her brothers.

"You want your father, huh?" I asked them.

They both nodded.

This was what I was scared of. The fact that Nathaniel was capable of taking my kids away from me. It haunted me and I became selfish.

"Okay. You will meet him officially soon. Before then don't do anything funny. Deal?" I proposed. They both exchanged a glance before looking at me and nodding in agreement.

I have thought long and hard about it. He already knew about them. Why keep them away when I could redeem myself with this?

It was my fault that they stayed hidden from him. I protected them so well that he couldn't find them. I have to make up for it so I was going to do this for them. Give them back the years they missed. I engulfed them in a hug as I let the fact that I would be sharing them settle in my guts even if it twisted it. I don't want to lose my kids and yet, I was going to give them the one thing they have always wanted.

Their father.