Chapter 50

I didn't name our pups just yet. I knew Aiden wanted to name them, yes I was mad at him but I couldn't deprive him of that. Above everything else, I wanted him to feel special being a father to two lively pups. I glance over to where they were, one of the was swathed the way I left him and the other just couldn't sit still. She had her legs and arms all over the place and cooing.

She was just so lively. The boy on the other hand would be the perfect child and waif for mommy. I had bathed them, fed them, changed them in the last 24 hours and still no sign of the father.

I tried a bunch of places where I thought Aiden would go seek solace from somewhere else other than his own wife. Sadly he didn't even go to any of those places. I felt hopeless trying to find him. "Don't wait on me" I could still hear those words ring back at me over and over again.

But how could I not when I was his wife? Weren't part of my duties to wait on him? "Gosh, Aiden be back already" I say to particularly no one. I felt lonely, I know, I have a couple of babies now I can't be feeling lonely right now with babies at hand. If anything, I am supposed to be screaming in horror.

Well, my little babies were angels. Of coursed every mother says this but my claim was true. These pups were behaving like they understood the outside world. Like they knew that mommy was in trouble if they caused any commotion. Like they knew to sit still and wait for daddy.

Looking at the bedside clock, I notice that it was getting late and if I need to function again tomorrow, I needed to rest. It was fine that the babies didn't cause extra trouble, but taking care of a pup was exhausting, imagine two of them.

Going to bed wasn't all that hard with the twins. As soon as my head hit the pillow, they were all fast asleep. I followed suite and closed my eyes.

I woke up with a jolt. I had a really bad dream, it was about Aiden. He came home after the pups were all grown up, they were teenagers and Aiden missed everything. He couldn't care any less, he had other children in his hands and they weren't mine.

They looked like that awful looking Claire. It didn't feel right. How could he leave me for years and spawn that woman's kids. They were twins just like mine. But hers were cute little babies just like mine were, and he chose them over our babies. It felt like I was being crushed with harmer, one dent at a time.

But that wasn't the end of my agony, another child enters the room, this one was slightly younger than my own. Is this what he left me for? Is this what he wanted? I could not sit around and wait for my disappointment to find me. Then it does. Claire. She was in my house, with more pups in her hands and a smirk on her lips.

No. this was not happening, I turn to Aiden and ask "Why…" I was a mess. I had tears and snot everywhere and my grown up kids saw this. Aiden answers, "I've always wanted many pups but you don't have the strength for that."

The dream felt so real, it felt as if the events really did happen but it was impossible. My babies were right here, whaling, I must have frightened them when I woke up from my nightmare.

Aiden peeps from the door. He looks dirty and disheveled. "Baby?" he asks with clear confusion. I smile and say "Babies honey" I had them both to my chest so they can nurse.

Everything was going to be fine, my husband was back home with no additional pups and some really dirty laundry. It didn't matter, he was home now.

Aiden looked so shaken. "When did this happen?" it all comes rushing back to me, the pain and horror I went through in his absence. "Where have you been husband" my tone is so cold that even my babies stop suckling and look up in wonder. I probably radiated danger, but my pups knew that I would never hurt them.

Aiden visibly freezes. He knows he messed up big time. "I was in a cave on the mountain of Kiroko." He says slumping on the door frame. Kiroko? I ask myself, wasn't that a thousand miles away? He saves me from my tangible confusion, "I ran" he says. That explained his state.

"I had them the day you left" I wanted him to feel bad for leaving me, feel hurt the way I did. And it was working. He had to feel guilty for leaving a pregnant wife alone at home with possible danger lurking.

He hesitantly comes closer to take a good look at his pups, our pups. In his eyes, there was a lingering question I could see it. That is when I told him everything about the childbirth, I also knew that he was bummed out that he wasn't there. He wanted to be the first one to carry them in his arms but he chose to run off to a distant mountain that typically didn't exist to us.

I waited for him to wash up, and let him have the babies while I do cleaning around the house. It had been almost 3 days since I cleaned and the place looked like a giant bird was nesting here. Not anymore. I did the laundry, the dishes, I scrubbed and mopped the floor. While Aiden bonded with his kids.

Finishing off there, I take a nice long soothing shower. I felt better now. Now the naming of or pups can happen, I'm glad that I waited for him to do this.