○Chapter 24: Lost Jace

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Why can't they leave him alone? He wants to live in peace, with his kids. This whole year, they have been calling and sending him letters. Jace doesn't respond to them. Only a few times he has.

After arriving back home. Jace had talked to Ellie. They had put their differences aside. He confronted everyone and met his nieces and nephews the whole family. He visits them once in a while. Spend time with them. But mostly he spends alone. He stays at the lake house. With Ari and Natalia.

"Dad, Ari spilled my milk!" Natalia yelled.

Jace got up and went to them. Ari was playing with the spilled milk. He sighed and picked him up. He giggled and wiggle around.

"Bath time," Jace said. "Natalia can you clean it up, please."

"Yes daddy," Natalia smiled.

"Thank you," Jace took him to the bathroom. There he bathes him. He splashed around and giggled. It's not easy taking care of him. He continually has to apply an injection to keep him healthy. The cure did work and changed him back. But he still is a werewolf, but he can't control it yet. Once he's older, Jace will teach him how to manage it.

"Finish!" Natalia ran in.

Ari, squeezed a rubber duckie and water sprout out hitting Natalia. He giggled and splashed water around. He chuckled. The phone rang. Must be them again. Natalia answered it.

"Daddy its grandma," Jace sighed. Picking Ari, he went into the room and lay him down grabbing the phone he answers it while Natalia changed him.

"Yes?" He answers.

"I need you to come now," his mother said.

"No," he said.

"Or I will go to you," she said.

"Fine come, but I ain't going," he said hanging up. His mother will pull his ear when she comes. He can take it.

After an hour they were outside playing. Ari, development was different; he barely learns how to crawl. And he's going to be one. Maybe he was exaggerating. He's a horrible father; he doesn't let them out of his sight. Or go to his parent's house. Nor to play with the other kids. Okay, he does let them go to his mother's house and play with their cousins. But there are times when he wants them close to him. He needs to allow them to grow up and learn. But it's hard for him.

'Hey,' Jace sat up straight.

'Well good to see you too Mr. Reed,' he said. 'Where have you been all this time huh?'

Reed disappears on him since Pearl's death. He hasn't talked to him, at all it's the first. And the good thing about it is that Jace can control the beast in him, without Reed's help. And he kept Reed with him; he didn't lose him, that was something good. But it's annoying because Reed abandoned him when Jace needed him the most. Now he's back.

'I'm sorry,' Reed said. 'I fail you. I abandon you.'

'It's whatever,' Jace sighed. 'Why come back?'

'Not sure, I had this strange sensation,' he said. 'Something pulling me back. Like an invisible string.'

'Ah,' Jace sighed.

'Someone is trying to get into our head,' he said. 'Why not answer it?'

'Because I don't feel like it,' Jace said. 'I want to be left alone.'

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