Let Me Love You Again
Chapter 109

Maya

“Axel, please take a bath,” I said desperately as I went up the stairs to the first floor.

I saw Axel running down the hallway completely naked “Axel says, NO mama!” he laughed.

Tears came to my eyes. That day Axel had been particularly unmanageable, he had done nothing but rebel at my every request, shout and run around the house. I was physically and mentally broken, I couldn’t take it anymore.

I climbed the steps of the wooden stairs, grabbing myself by the railing, moving slowly as my belly had grown over the last few weeks. I was about to enter the sixth month, and moving was starting to be difficult.

The little girl had started to move, even a lot. I hadn’t had the courage to tell Nate as he had waited so long for that moment. The little girl started kicking one night.

I had woken up with a sudden feeling in my belly, as soon as I touched it I felt her move, she started kicking furiously and turning around.

I’d been in bed for hours, motionless, with one hand on my belly, while she flipped like a madwoman and never stopped. We’d both been awake for hours, when she’d calmed down, I’d done the same thing, and I’d fallen asleep.

It was a week after Nate left, and I was so sorry to tell him that the baby girl started moving the moment he left. So I kept it from him, and I got all vague every time he asked me about the baby.

I didn’t want to sadden him anymore, I knew how much he was suffering from being so far away, and I knew if I told him about the baby, it would be worse.

I put my hand on my belly as I reached the last step. The hallway was empty and I wondered where Axel had gone to hide, surely to do some damage as he did lately just to drive me crazy.

“Axel!” I yelled this pissed off.

I heard a thud and then his steps on the floor came from our bedroom, located at the end of the corridor on the left. God knows what he was up to this time.

Nate said he’d call me in a little while to see if I could get it washed. I was about to have a crying crisis because of the f*****g hormones.

I entered the patronal chamber and found it empty, although the bed had wrinkled blankets, a sign that the little plague had done some damage.

“I know you’re here, you little brat,” I said, putting my hands on my h**s.

I heard his light laughter and noises coming from the dressing room, immediately opened the doors wide, finding Axel in the centre of the cabin, as well as all my clothes on the ground along with Nate’s. A shiver ran through my body as Axel turned his back.

“Look mama!” he said and turned.

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Axel had put on one of Nate’s ties, he was completely naked except for the tie that reached him to the ground, on his nose he had a pair of sunglasses by Nate that fit him wide.

“Axel look Dad!” he said cheerfully.

I tried not to cry, Axel was so attached to his father that my heart was crying. Nate was his role model, his lifeline, I didn’t know what I was gonna do when the time came to tell him the truth.

“Momy no sad, Axel is Dad,” he said again, then began to make model poses imitating the poses that Nate did when he wanted to be vain.

He still had chocolate in his mouth and it was hilarious to look at him like that. I knelt down in the walk-in closet and looked at him.

Axel started dancing while I picked up my phone and started a video call with Nate, pointing the camera at Axel.

Nate answered the first ring, he had just come out of the shower and had his hair completely wet and his chest covered with droplets.

“What’s going on?” he asked, then looked at me better and saw Axel dancing all the time, making dirty moves I didn’t even know where he had learned them.

Nate burst into laughter and Axel stopped his sinuous moves and put his hands on his h**s.

“Why are you naked?” Nate asked.

Axel came up to me and stood next to me as I inserted the internal camera and both he and I appeared on the screen.

“DADDY!” he shouted suddenly, breaking my eardrum, I turned away my ear from him, closing one eye, “Axel free!” he cried again.

“Free means from clothes?” Nate asked, laughing as he sat on what I thought was the sofa in his hotel room.

“Axel doesn’t like clothes,” I said, moving his blond hair back and leaving a k**s on his cheek.

“You haven’t taken a bath yet?” Nate asked.

Axel stopped “Axel preferred to be a clown,” I said.

“Axel no clown, mama,” he replied.

“But Axel is dirty,” Nate said “Axel can’t be as handsome as Dad if he’s dirty,” I frowned and looked at Nate, “If you want to be as sexy as Dad, you have to be nice and clean,” he kept saying, “So women will fall at your feet,” and I raised an eyebrow.

This man wanted to turn our son into a womanizer, and I was terrified. If Axel had stayed on the same path as Nate, he would have broken many hearts of innocent young girls.

Axel nodded attentively, “Yes, Axel bath,” he said, moving away from me and running to the bathroom in our room, “Mama! Axel Bath!” He shouted and I snorted, getting up with a g***n.

“Where are you?” Nate asked, frowning.

“Closet” I answered and a g***n of pain escaped me when the little girl decided to give me a strong kick as if she wanted to let her father know she was there.

“What’s going on?” he immediately asked alarmed.

“Nothing, I got hurt,” she lied, and then the little girl kicked me again.

I figured out what she wanted so I lifted my shirt and pointed my phone at my belly.

“Has she grown again?” Nate said excitedly.

“I’m starting to struggle to stand for a long time” admitted defeat “And Axel who plays the devil for four does not help, does nothing but run around the house” whimpering.

It was one thing to live in the apartment where I could keep an eye on him, one thing was to live in a giant house where he could run freely and let off steam, which meant me more bitter c***s as I had to run after him all day.

“Try to get my mom to help you out”.

“He’s my son, that’s my problem. I think I’m going to have to tie him to the chair,” I said very seriously.

Nate burst into laughter while a “MAMA” came from the bathroom.

First, he didn’t want to wash and now he was in a crazy hurry. I sighed and went to the bathroom.

“I’ll try to fix it in a week and come as soon as possible love, I want to be the reason you don’t walk,” said Nate.

“It’s your fault if I can’t walk,” I said as I entered the bathroom.

Axel had slipped into the completely empty tub and was waiting for me to turn it on. I pointed the outside camera at him laughing.

“It’s like a horror movie,” Nate laughed.

I turned on the water and brought it up to temperature and then started filling the tub with soap.

“Call me when you’re done washing it, I want to have a man-to-man talk,” Nate said, and I laughed.