Kids from One Alpha

Chapter 72: Jealousy and Drawings

“Is Uncle Logan going to get to go home now?” Olivia asked when Serena met the kids and Dana outside the hospital. “He’ll be able to go home soon,” she said. “Did you bring pictures for him?” “Yea!” Oliver said excitedly. He pulled his backpack off to indicate that was where the pictures were.

“Thank you, Dana. I’ll stay with the twins. You can head on home,” she said. Dana nodded.

“I’ll have dinner for you when you get home,” she said.

“Great, thanks,” Serena said. She took the twins hands.

“Logan said he would read to us more when we came back,” Olivia told Serena. “Can we stay and read with him?” “Why don’t you start by showing him your pictures,” Serena said. “We don’t want to tire him out too much.” She walked the twins to Logan’s room while Olivia chattered about her day and why she hadn’t wanted to go daycare. Serena listened, but she was also concerned about what Holly would do when she saw the twins again. She’d already made it clear that she didn’t want to see Serena or the twins in Logan’s room again. When they got to the door, Serena knocked lightly. The voices muffled behind the door stopped. “Come in,” Logan called. Serena took a deep breath and pushed the door open. Immediately, Olivia and Oliver ran in, cheerily saying hi to Logan. Holly sneered, walking backwards to get out of their way as they ran at the table. “You came back,” Logan said, smiling. “Yes,” Holly said moodily, crossing her arms and rolling her eyes. Serena remained by the door. She shut it, but stayed back. She had nothing left to say to Logan, but she was there because she had told him he wasn’t going to be alone with her kids until she could trust him again. “We drew all kinds of pictures today,” Olivia said. Oliver took his backpack off and pulled the zipper open. A whole pile of pages fell out onto the bed, scattering around. Logan laughed. “Ugh, playing family with kids that aren’t even yours, again,” Holly sneered. Logan didn’t respond, but Serena glared at Holly. She didn’t like how Holly was so rude and made assumptions about her and her kids. The fact that Logan was their real father made things more confusing. Holly didn’t know that. If she did, Serena knew she would throw a massive tantrum, one that could get her kicked out of the pack, or worse!

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lose his temper at them. She trusted that to be true, but she didn’t want to let go over her anger at him yet. It hadn’t been the twins that he had been yelling at or making accusations at. It had been her at the end of his wrath. She would have to forgive him in her own time. Olivia and Oliver were holding up their pictures one at a time, showing Logan what they’d painted. He was very good at guessing too, which was something a parent was good at. It took a parents’ eyes sometimes to see what a child drew or painted. “Is this another wolf?” Logan asked Oliver. “I like the wolves,” Oliver said. “I want to be one.”

between Holly and Olivia “Why do your kids think you and Logan are so close?” she asked, waving the page in front of Serena’s face. Serena looked at the image, seeing that Olivia had drawn her and Logan with their arms around each other. It was an innocent enough drawing for a young child. The fantasy of their mother and her friend. Serena sighed, shaking her head. “Kids will be kids,” she said. “They don’t see things how we see them.” Holly scoffed and tossed the drawing back on the bed. “This is why I don’t think you should be spending so much time with them,”

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twins to be around. “I’m sorry our visit was cut short, again,” Logan told the twins. “We will read together again, soon.” “Promise?” Olivia asked, crawling up the bed to hug him. “I promise” he said. Oliver went to the side of the bed and Logan ruffled his hair. “You should probably get going, now,” Holly said, speeding their departure along. Serena sighed, taking her kids’ hands and heading out of the room.

my parents for a little while,” Serena said. “Without

no, all of us, as a family,”

her children that one of the reasons she wanted to leave was because she wanted to get away from Logan. “Logan isn’t a part of our family,” Serena said. “He is a good

so she had to keep playing the part of them thinking he was