Chapter 13

Cato POV

I was frozen. Slightly in shock, a swirl of emotions overtook me: confusion, anger, joy, happiness, pain and confusion again but most of all happiness, if they were mine how come Clove never told me? Why would she keep something like this from me? Even if my name wasn't on the certificate it was pretty clear to me that I was their father, Cade's middle name is Cato, his hair is blonde like mine, Claire's middle name is Isabelle just like my mother's, after all Clove fulfilled the promise that she made years ago, and Claire has the same color eyes as me, I always assumed that it was merely coincidence of course now I know that is because she is mine, they are mine, those two amazing kids are mine.

Suddenly I remember why I am here, I quickly pick up the insurance papers that slipped of my hand minutes before, Clove is injured in the hospital, I don´t know how badly and I just found out that we are parents; It took me no longer that 5 min to get to the hospital and when I enter to the ER area I see Enobaria sitting in a couch sobbing while Brutus is next comforting her, I was about to head to them when Alec gets in with a worried look on his face.

"I just talked to a nurse she says that Clo is in surgery she can't tell us anything else until the doctor comes out"

"Can someone please explain me what happened to Clove?"- I anxiously ask to them and Enobaria hugs me, she is still crying so Brutus begins to talk.

"We were at my office when we he heard a lot of noise in one of the classrooms so we went to check what was going on, two students were fighting, she got there extremely quickly and I wasn't able to stop her, she tried to split them out and the knife got into her abdomen we don´t know more"- he explained sadly, he was worried even though he didn´t wanted to show it.

"Okay so I think that we are going to have to wait, that's all we can do"- I was extremely worried about her, in this moments the anger that I felt to her for not telling me the truth had vanished and it was replaced with a heavy oppression in my chest- "Were are the twins?"

"They are with Leigh at the training center, we have no one else to take care of them but I will pick them up as soon as the doctor tell us how she is"- Alec said, she was leaning against the wall, running his hands trough his hair nervously.

Two endless ours went by and finally the doctor came out of the O.R, the four of us stand up quickly and approached him.

"How is she?"- Enobaria asked, it was the first time she had spoken since we arrived.

"Her condition is stable; we had to remove her appendix because the knife burst it but that is not something to worry about, the problem is that she lost a lot of blood during surgery, she is very weak right now, but we hope that she will recover soon"

We all let out a sigh of relief when we heard that she was going to be okay, and then he returned to check on Clove, a nurse came a few minutes later to tell us that she would be translated to a room soon and then we could go and see her. Alec said that he was going to take the twins to his house and he will come back in the morning, I wanted to be with them so badly but I needed to stay with Clove, Brutus said that he was going to take off too because he still needed to go to the training center.

Enobaria and I stayed alone at the waiting room, she was calmer now and I was wondering whether or not I should ask her about this whole situation, I was sure that she knew everything, all of those trips that she took the last years were to visit Clove, I had recently found out that she had been living in district four and that's where Brutus told me that Enobaria was visiting some relatives apparently.

"Excuse me; the patient is in her room now, if you want to go see her is the 145"- the voice of the nurse got me out of my thoughts.

"Thank you so much, Cato would you like to go first?"- Enobaria asked me and I simply nodded.

I entered to the room and I felt my heart ache when I saw Clove, she had tubes connected to her body, an oxygen mask and two intravenous catheters, one for the medicine and the other one for the blood transfusion. She looked so teeny tinny, her hair was in a messy bun and her beautiful face was pale with dark circles under her eyes. I wanted so much to see her awake, even if she yelled at me like she used to, I just want to know that she is going to be okay. I sit in the couch next to her bed and grab her small hand, I was there for about two hours just watching her and talking to her until the nurse came to tell me that the visiting hours were over.

"You are the strongest person I've ever known Clovely, you are going to get better soon"- I leaned to her and placed a kiss on her forehead.

2 days later

It was Monday and Clove has not awakened yet, the doctors said that it was normal but I was starting to get even more worried for her, I had been in the hospital everyday in case something happened, yesterday I had Claire and Caden with me the whole afternoon, Enobaria and Alec explained them that mommy was sick so she had to rest a couple of days so she could be better soon, they were sad at the beginning but then the doctor said that they would be able to visit her on Monday, which is today so I'm taking them to the hospital right now, Enobaria and Brutus were already on the waiting room and they were smiling, as soon as they see us she quickly got up to approach me.

"Cato she is recovering, she woke up a few hours ago"- I can't describe the joy that I felt when she told me that, the kids and I almost run towards her room but a nurse told us to keep it calm.

When we entered Clove was in sitting in her bed eating some jelly, her face immediately light up when she saw her children, I had to stop them from jumping right at her instead I placed each one at her sides, they hugged and kissed her really carefully.

"Cato?"- she asked softly-"How long have you been here?"

"Since Friday, yesterday I went home to take care of this little monsters"- I answered without looking at her because I was playing with the kids on the floor.

Clove remained quiet for a long time and when I turned at her to see what was happening I saw her watery eyes and a guilty expression in her face;

"You already know the truth don't you?"- she asked.

So sorry to leave you with cliffhangers I know I'm mean, but please don't hate me. I hope you like this chapter and you know that suggestions, complains, and everything is truly appreciated on the reviews, let me know if you like it! Love you all for reading and even more for reviewing!

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