PARADISE: WRATH OF CHILDREN [COMPLETED]

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE

BROTHER FROM ANOTHER FATHER

Paul took the cloth with ice inside, from Jack’s hand and placed it on the side of his swollen, broken lips. A touch of the coldness got him to groan. “I shouldn’t have been so hard on you,” Jack sought courage and said, fastening his coat leaning on the small cave’s wall. “I should have given you a chance.”

“I too am to be blamed, I have not been very grateful of your family’s welcome,” Paul said. “Too consumed about saving my blood family but forgot about the family I’ve made who have been nothing but good to me.”

“I guess we both have been cabbages,” with a little laughter.

“Cabbages?” Paul asked, slightly confused.

“I mean not too good people,”

“Oh, I guess I agree,”

“Yeah,” taking a deep breath turning to face the fox’s two cub licking his ankles. He reached his hand onto them brushing them. “They are not guarded.” Jack stated.

“Fox hunt during the night, so the mother is probably hunting.” Paul replied, reaching his hand onto the cub that was diverging toward him.

“You also learnt that from reading?”

“Yes,” brushing the fox. “He is soft.”

“Yeah, they are,” his eyes on Paul. “So you never touched a fox cub before?”

“No, I have never engaged with wild animals only turkeys,” Paul replied picking the fox cub. “Mother Theresa would never let us go out, not even around the yard after…. This is nice.”

“Mother Theresa? Is she your mother?”

“No, yes, I don’t know,” Paul replied lifting his eyes onto Jack.

“What do you mean you don’t know?”

“I…I mean we all called her mother Theresa but I couldn’t connect with neither her or the other children beside Pam.”

“Connect?”

“Yes connect,” reached his hand onto Jack’s exposed skin. He touched his wrist sending his coldness onto Jack, who shuddered. He then moved away his hand. “You, see? I cannot feel anything from you,”

Jack eyes widened moving his other hand onto his hand that Paul had touched. “If we were related, I could have felt every thought or emotion in you like I can feel Pam even when she is far away,”

“So…how is she? Pam?”

“Quiet and breathing for now, but I can feel other dark sources around her she’s not safe,”

“Then let’s go find her,” pulling the bag pack.

“What if you were right?”  Paul asked. “What if I cannot save her? What if she…”

Jack rested his hand on Paul’s shoulder. “Wasn’t it you who was so sure you were going to save her?  The one who would kill for her? The one who was willing to kill me for her?” Jack asked.

“W…”

“Well you can save her and I can help you, it’s the least I could do for you,” Jack said moving his hand off Paul’s shoulder. “No child will be left behind. We are all going to paradise.”

“Together?”

“Yes, together,”