“Daniel, Ella, come on let’s go.” Daisy said as she walked into the examination room.
Daniel ran straight into her arms, Ella at his heels.
Victoria walked towards them smiling.
“So we ran a vary of tests and she’s fine, but she will have to exercise more.” She said.
Daisy nodded as she scooped the furry collie into her arms.
Victoria laughed shaking her hands.
“Like now, you have to let her walk, and when you get to the medication center on your way out, pick up a few tablets for her it’ll help her.”
Daisy nodded as she gently let Ella down.
“Are you ready to go?” She asked.
The boy nodded smiling, as he clung to her leg, the dog at his heels.
Daisy thanked Victoria, as she quickly walked out of the clinic.
However, what greeted her when she crossed the entrance of the clinic nearly made her drop dead.
She stood at the door with her heart in her mouth trying to process what was going on. How come?
"Hey, Daisy," Ethan called, his hand around her son's shoulder, the boy blushing innocently.
Daisy felt the fire in her chest explode, snapping her out of her daze and at once? she barged across the hall to harshly snatch Daniel from his grip.
"What the fuck is your problem Ethan?! Are you stalking me now?" She confronted him immediately, as she dragged her son away.
Safely tucking him underneath her arms away from Ethan’s grip.
Passerby who saw the manner she snatched the boy stopped to observe.
"Calm down, Daisy, please listen to me. I wasn't stalking you," Ge said as he tried to manage the situation with a solemn smile.
"Then fuck off! Leave us alone!" She hissed angrily at him as she dragged Daniel away.
Leaving Ethan stunned, with an astonished and dumbfounded look on his face, as he watched her stump away with their son.
He knew Daisy and how much she could be a blow off. So in order to avoid that, he simply smiled widely at his son and stood to the side, not going after them and creating more scenes, he turned around waving harmlessly to the boy, making funny faces at him.
His heart melted as the boy returned his smile, it was like looking into a mirror from the past or looking into a school year book.
Meanwhile,
Daisy was beyond pissed, as she dragged Daniel behind her, taking huge strides, Ella struggling to keep up with them.
She wished she hadn't listened to Mandy and brought her son along with her to the clinic.
She should have left him at the house or even at the fashion house irrespective of him complaining and making a mess.
She was his mother and she knew what was best for him, and she knew that Ethan was nothing close to what was best for him.
She couldn’t imagine letting her son stay around someone like him, or even be around someone like him and risk raising another version of Ethan.
She already hated that he looked like him a lot, she wasn’t going to let him be like him.
The thought of Ethan’s hand on her son replayed multiple times in her held, making her tighten her grip on him.
She pulled him towards her, holding him tight, she was never going to let that fool Ethan take her son.
The way he looked at her son with pity made her angry that she had even allowed him to see for boy for once with those eyes, those eyes that cast him out when he was still in her womb.
She could see in his eyes that he wanted to be with her son,
Never!
She couldn’t even fathom how he knew that they were going to the clinic today.
Was he truly stalking her or did someone tell him?
Amanda? It couldn’t be Amanda, she would never.
Becky? She didn’t like her one bit, but she didn’t think Becky could do something like that.
Daisy shook the thoughts out of her head.
"Baby, come on let me get you crackers, you want some, right?"She asked as she bent to face the boy whose heads bounced in the direction of his father with a likewise expression.
His huge brown eyes filled with confusion.
"Why can I not be with him, mom?"
Daisy quickly blocked his view of Ethan. "You can’t be with him honey, do you remember that bed time story I used to read to you? The big bad wolf and little red riding hood?” She asked.
Daniel nodded.
“That man, he’s the big bad wolf, and you are little red riding hood..” Daisy said, looking in his eyes.
“Are you the little red riding hood grandmother? The one the wolf ate?” Daniel asked.
Daisy laughed a little.
“We can look at it like that, but that man he is the big bad wolf and he is not good for you, okay?" She whispered.
She never ever thought that one day she would resort to bad mouthing Ethan in front of her son but if that was the only way to do it, then she would do it.
"But he seemed nice. I --"
"Daniel!" She said stiffly, her voice louder than she wanted to.
She quickly smiled to rectify her mistake.
"I am your mother and I know what is right for you honey, okay? You trust me, don't you?"
He nodded reluctantly and followed her as they walked out of the public reception into the medication corner, to pick up Ella’s drugs.
The nurse on duty checked out Ella and confirmed Victoria’s prescription that she was growing too much fat and would need exercise and other prescriptions which would demand Daisy drop her off at the pet's gym every day to recover since she won't have all that taken in her hand.
They took her meds and left the veterinary.
She couldn’t fathom the happiness she felt as she didn’t see any signs of Ethan in the hallway. She quickened her steps, hoping to outrun him if he had gone to any of the offices, she needed to be out of here before she saw him again.
As she stepped outside the clinic main’s doors, she dropped Ella on the floor and it seemed the injection they gave her back inside the clinic gave her a little energy because the next minute she was racing in full force down the sidewalk, and before Daisy would get ahold of the situation, her son chased her down.
"Ella! Danny! Stop!" She yelled and ran after them in equal force, a loud unladylike curse leaving her mouth.
They made a U-turn at the corner and ran in another direction and Daisy lost it. This was totally a bad idea. She has often brought Ella to this veterinary check but it was as though nature was bringing to pass her premonition of her suffering in their hands today.
"Danny!"She called when she lost sight of them. "Ella! Oh, God, not today..." She rapidly skidded her eyes about for any signal of them but saw nothing.
She stopped in the middle of the field with her hand to her chest panting loudly from her hot chase, still searching in fear.
"Over here!" She pivoted with so much force she lost footing and went flying to the ground due to her heels. "Son of a gun! I'm going to make sure those two are severely punished for this humiliation!" She veered and made to stand but then a hand came about her and helped her up before she would protest. Her breathing hitched from the contact for a while she was speechless but when she came about, she cringed away and regained her claws to attack.
"Where is my son, you bastard?!" She flared at Ethan.
Ethan stood staring at her, savoring for a moment watching her pour off some pent-up steams.
She couldn't tell how the question she asked sounded funny to him to have an amusing expression. "I swear I'm going to kill you if you touch any hair on his head, Ethan! Give me my son, my dog!" Her eyes flew around in search of them.
"Calm down, Daisy, I was merely walking Boss when I saw your dog bounding down the lane. What did you expect me to do?"
"Where are they?!"
"Playing over there..."He pointed at the field at the corner which her orbs dilated to at once but he blocked her sight from catching anything.
"What are you playing at?" She tilted her head defiantly at him.
"Just a moment with my son, Daisy, is that too much to ask?"He inquired very slowly, yet, suspiciously.
"He is not your son, Ethan, stop talking nonsense!"
"He is, Daisy. It's written all over him," His eyes fell as he spoke, "look, I know I messed up, babe-"
"Don't you dare call me that, Ethan. You lost every right the day you divorced me! From the moment you accused me of cheating, Ethan. He is not your son and would never be! Danny! Ella!"
Having heard his mother's voice Daniel rushed out from the thicket, his face wide in a delightful beam. It broke his mother's heart. He was having such a great time with his father. "Mom!" He coursed and bounded to her with Ella after him and... Well, a nice-looking short-legged Weiler.
"We have to leave now, Danny!" She ordered the little boy.
"Dad said he wants to stay with me a little, mom. Please...."
Dad? Daisy's head exploded.
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