Glassheart (Red x Chloe) Book 3

Chapter 3

I was eating double chocolate chip cookies with some milk when i had an epiphany about this chapter

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"Like what? You're scaring me, Chlo." Red stares at her wife. "I think....i think Bridget is being abused by your father." Red blinks once. Twice. "What?" Chloe sighs. "I know you don't want to hear, especially cause he's your dad and you love him but the twins and i were talking and i think they're right. Something's off about James and i think he's hurting Bridget." Red takes a deep breath. "You think my dad is hurting my mom?" Chloe slowly nods. "Me and the twins." Red scoffs. "The twins, of course." "But it wasn't just them. I mean, they only suggested it but it got me thinking. The way they were outside earlier today. That broken vase just a few minutes ago. I went to clean it up and Bridget looked really scared." Red sighs. "Ok, let's assume, this is all true. What did you wanna do? Confront my dad? He's a pirate, what makes you think he won't try and hurt you too? I mean, if he can hurt his own wife, what's stopping him from hurting us? Or the kids? We gotta think of them too."

Chloe holds her hands. "I know, i know. And i am. I am always thinking about the kids. That's my point. If he can hurt his own wife, what's stopping him from hurting us or the kids? Nothing. And I don't want them getting hurt." A loud thud interrupts everyone's night for the second time as everyone rushing out to find out what's happened. Once again, Red was the fastest of them all. Chloe wasn't sure if it's just cause she's that fast or cause she was worried it might have been Bridget. "Rabbits, mom! Are you sure you didn't take track and field?!" Cree asks as he narrowly dodges her once again. "Mom!" Red shouts as she runs down the stairs to her mothers motionless body. "No, no. Mommy, don't go." Red starts to cry. Chloe quickly comes up behind her. "We gotta get her to the hospital." Red quickly picks her up and takes her to the car, gently placing her mother down on the back seat. "Twins! Stay here, watch your brother and sister." "Ma-" "I mean it, don't do anything stupid while we're gone." Chloe warns them. She glances behind her at her parents and James. "And watch your grandfather." She whispered. They both nod.

Red and Chloe rush off to the hospital with Bridget while the twins stay behind. "It was grandpa James, wasn't it?" Cree whispered. "Oh, i guarantee you, it was." Crimson whispered back as she stared at James. James excuses himself to his room, supposedly worried about Bridget. Ella and Charming walk up to the twins. "She's going to be ok, kids." Ella assures them. Except, they weren't sure whether to believe her or not. Ella walks back to Charming and they engage in conversation. "I knew it, i just knew it!" "Ella, you can't blame yourself." "Can't i? I knew something was off. I wish none of this ever started, i wish they never went to Castlecoming together." The twins both look at each other, seemingly thinking the same thing. "But then Red and Harry wouldn't be born, neither would the kids." Ella nods. "I know, i just.... I'm so fucking angry." That's a first, they have never heard their grandma Ella curse before. It's kind of scaring them.

"I'm going to talk to him." Ella storms upstairs. "Ella, no. Ella!" Charming quickly follows his wife, to no use. She bangs on his door. "James! Open the fucking door! Now!" After no response is heard, she bangs on the door once again. "James!" She sighs. "Open the door." She tells Charming. "I don't think-" "Open this door before i do it myself!" Ella shouts at her husband. Charming sighs before ramming his shoulder into the door. Once it's finally off it's hinges, he kicks it down. "Oh James...." "Oh my gods...." Ella hides her face into her husband's shoulder, the sight to horrifying to see. James had hung himself. "What are we gonna tell Bridget? What are we gonna tell Harry? Oh my gods, what are we going to tell Red and the kids?"