CHAPTER 244: RAVEN IN PAIN

Eira’s POV

It felt good to sleep next to Raven. Though I now believed he wasn’t my Ray, my love and affection toward him weren’t any less. In fact, they kept growing. He was such a lovely kid. No wonder all of us couldn’t help but love him.

Kael slept next to me, but I didn’t mind. It made me feel comforted, as if all the emotional turmoil I’d felt until a while ago had finally calmed down.Certainly because we were bonded now.

At this moment, all I wanted was to be at peace, forgetting about everything else. I was tired, and I needed comfort—anything that could make me feel better. And right now, these two next to me were just that.

Holding Raven’s small hand, I closed my eyes as the warmth from Kael’s body enveloped me. My soul wished to be drowned in it.

Deep in the night, all of a sudden, I felt movement from Raven’s side. The hand I was holding clutched my fingers in a tight grip.

I opened my eyes and looked at him. The little guy seemed to be in pain, his brows knitted, his expression contorted in discomfort, and sweat covering his body.

I panicked. "Raven..."

"It’s alright," I heard Kael’s voice behind me, and he sat up in bed. "Don’t panic," he said, moving to Raven’s side, looking all calm.

I looked at him in shock. Raven was clearly in pain. How could he just say it was alright?

I sat up on the bed and caressed Raven’s head with my free hand. My heart hurt to see him like this, in pain I couldn’t understand. The grip of his small hand on my fingers told me it was too much for him to bear.

"Raven..." I called again, my voice shaking.

But my voice didn’t reach him. He was lost in the pain he was in.

Kael sat on Raven’s side carefully and gently freed my fingers from his hand.

"It’s alright. Let him hold onto me," I said to Kael. I didn’t know what else to do.

Kael kept his calm and said, "I need to pick him up in my arms. Don’t worry."

My hand was freed, and Kael gently lifted Raven in his arms as if he were the most delicate thing. Raven was in deep sleep. The pain—I wasn’t sure if it was caused by a nightmare he had or if he was hurting somewhere.

Kael held him in his arms, Raven’s small form pressed against his chest, his tiny face buried in the crook of Kael’s neck, and his small hands clutching Kael’s T-shirt.

Kael paced around the room, his large hand continuously caressing Raven’s back to coax him. Soon, Raven’s body relaxed, his expression softened, and the grip of his hands eased, as if the pain he was feeling was being soothed away.

It looked like Kael was used to doing this every night for Raven. That’s why he was so calm seeing Raven in pain.

While Kael did his job as a father, I just watched. I wished I could do something, but I felt so useless as a mother. I knew nothing about Raven.

Kael was everything a child needed—a perfect parent. No wonder Raven was so close to him and followed him in everything. Their bond ran deeper than blood ties.

If they brought Ray, would he be the same with my child? I couldn’t help but wonder. How good it would be for him to get a family like this and be raised by a protective man like Kael.

My desire to bring my son back grew even stronger.

Kael looked at me and gestured for me to lie in bed. Seeing Raven was fine with him, I did as he said, but I couldn’t close my eyes. My gaze followed Kael as he paced around the room, holding Raven in his arms, putting him into a comforting sleep.

No wonder he always made sure Raven slept in his room, saying Raven needed him at night. Now I knew the reason. He wasn’t troubling me by not letting Raven sleep with me in my room—he was simply caring for the kid and had asked me to sleep with them instead. He wasn’t playing around.

If only I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have argued with him.

I let out a heavy sigh. I am a mother, they should tell me everything about him. Maybe they don’t trust me yet because of my mental situation.

But I am fine now, right? I am trying to.

Last time after Raven’s blood tests, Kael told me the blood tests were fine and Raven was a healthy child. But there was some psychological trauma he had experienced and Isla will treat him. And as a family we have to take care of him.

We have all been doing so since then, but it seemed like Raven was deeply hurt by something.

Raven’s next session with Isla is soon; I will talk to her about it as well. I don’t want the little kid to be in any pain.

As I looked at Kael more, I couldn’t help but think that none of them ever told me whose child Raven was. Maybe his parents were someone I don’t know so they didn’t explain it to me. But the way they all cared for Raven, it felt like his parents were someone really close to them, someone all of them truly value.

If his parents were not in this world, then Raven is truly fortunate to be with us. I will do my best to be a good mother, so along with good fathers, he will have a good mother as well.

But at the same time, these people had been hiding Raven from the world and protecting him, so it felt like Raven was under some kind of threat. I understood it was because he was a pureblood child, but the reason seemed more than just that.

Whatever it was, we will protect him.

My thoughts suddenly turned dark. If someone came for him and tried to take him away, I will kill them just like I did with Roman’s mother.

I will pull out those monsters’ hearts and crush them in my hands.