Chapter 11
Eleven
HALLE
W e lead the kids down the hall and toward the room next to us. I look at Loki a little nervously.
“It’s right beside ours. No one has used that room in a while. They couldn’t stand the noises coming from my room,” Loki reassures me, only that statement has me glaring at him.
“Noises?” I growl at him. I see him look at me, and realization must hit him because he chuckles.
“I used to throw my knives at the wall to annoy the fucker in that room. I wanted my space. Plus, I would wake up screaming and shit. They got tired of it real quick,” he tells me. I’m not stupid enough to think I was Loki’s first, and I’m sure he doesn’t think he’s my first. That doesn’t mean I want to hear about it. The more I hear about it, the more Ra Ra Ra murdery I get. Safe topic to stay far, far away from.
“Are you sure they will be okay in that room all alone, love?” I whisper, not wanting the kids to hear.
“Yeah, pet, they will be safe there. I wouldn’t let anything happen to either of them, you know that,” he reassures me. We reach our door, and Loki walks in, the kids following.
“This is mine and Halle’s room. If you need anything, anything at all, just come get us, okay?” Loki tells them both.
“Where will we sleep?” Rae asks nervously.
“Right here, baby girl,” Loki says, walking out of the room and right next door. The kids follow him and walk into the room, looking all around in wonder. The room is nice but only has the basic furniture, bed, vanity, closet, and its own adjoining bathroom. It’s nice, for the moment, but so bare.
“We will get you another bed, so you guys don’t have to share,” Loki says, but Rae is already shaking her head.
“I want to sleep with my brother,” she tells us. I smile down at her.
“Of course you can, baby,” I tell her.
“I’ll be right back, guys,” Loki tells us before leaving the room. I show them the bathroom, and they both bounce on the bed.
“Wow! It’s so soft!” Rae says, giggling.
“Alright, I got you both a shirt of mine to sleep in tonight. Tomorrow, we will go get all your stuff from your old home,” Loki tells them. They both go from smiling and laughing to looking like they are about to cry.
“What’s wrong, my babies?” I ask, the endearment just sliding off my tongue naturally.
“The last home we were in threw away all of our stuff the first time Rome smarted back to them. They didn’t want Rome and me sleeping in the same bed, but he refused to sleep anywhere else. He wanted to protect me,” Rae says, sniffling.
“They trashed everything. Including the only picture of our parents we had,” Rome says, and I can see him fighting the tears, refusing to let them fall. I grab him and pull him to my chest as Loki does the same with Rae.
Rae clings to Loki and lays her head on his chest, crying big hard sobs. Rome takes longer before he finally relaxes in my arms and cries softly.
“Then tomorrow, we will go by your last house and make them understand the meaning of being a decent fucking human being,” I growl out.
“One day, I hope you tell us about your parents. We would like to know more about them,” Loki says, placing a soft kiss on Rae’s forehead.
“Then, after we take care of your old foster parents, we will take you both shopping,” I say excitedly. Now, this is a good cause to spend my fortune on.
“Shopping…” Rome and Loki both whine at the same time.
I swear, if I didn’t know better, I would think somehow those two share the same DNA.
“Boys,” I say, shaking my head at Rae. She giggles, and then Loki lifts her up.
“How about you both take a quick shower? Then we will tuck you both in. What do you think about that?” I ask them. They look at me with so much hope my heart aches.
“We would love that,” Rae tells me.
“Alright, there are towels in the bathroom cabinet. The remote to the TV is right beside the bed. Want me to turn it on for you?” Loki asks them. They both nod, and I watch as he creates a kid’s profile for them and turns on an episode of Dragon Tales. I used to love this show.
“If you need anything, just come next door, okay? Anything at all,” Loki tells them. When they both nod, he grabs my hands and pulls me from the room.
“Let’s give them a little time to adjust to being here. I think we’ve put them through enough today,” Loki says, although I only want to go back into that room and hold them close. I nod and let him lead me into our room for the night.
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Loki was sleeping soundlessly on my tits, of course, the way he always sleeps now, but we both wake with a start when we hear screaming coming from the kid’s room. Loki rushes, grabbing the knife he keeps under the pillow. I grab my 380 and follow right after him. We burst into the room to find Rome kicking and screaming while Rae is curled in a ball, whining and silently crying. She is curled so tight, making herself look so small it breaks my heart. We rush to the bed, grab both of them, and pull them close.
“Get off her! Get off my sister!” Rome yells, and I swear I feel tears prick in my eyes. No one better have touched Rae. I swear on my life, if I find out they did, I will cut their hands off and shove them so far up their ass they will be my own personal puppet.
“Wake up, baby. It’s Loki and Halle. We won’t hurt you,” I coo softly. We hold on to them for a few more minutes before they both relax, waking slowly.
“I don’t want to sleep alone,” Rae mumbles into Loki’s chest. I watch as Loki’s face turns murderous, and he places Rae in my lap beside her brother.
“I’ll be right back,” he says, walking out.
I’m just as confused as the kids, wondering where he could be going. We hear things banging and clattering around in Loki’s room. The only thing separating us from our room is the wall where his weapons are displayed. Within the next two minutes, there’s a big bang on the wall, followed by another, then an enormous hole appears in the middle of the wall. We watch Loki take a sledgehammer and slam it down repeatedly on the wall separating the rooms. He keeps going until there is an opening between our rooms, a huge fucking doorway. I’m smiling at him like a loon, and I look down, wanting to make sure the kids aren’t freaking out from all the noise, but I see matching loony smiles on both their faces, too.
“You both are more than welcome to come in anytime or stay in here, but I figured this wall had to go,” Loki says, swinging the sledgehammer back and forth. The kids and I laugh before Rae jumps from the bed and runs into Loki’s arms. He steps over the rubble, ensuring she doesn’t step on any of it.
“You’re crazy, Loki,” she tells him. He pulls back, surprised and looking at her worriedly, then she continues. “I like crazy.”
He smiles down at her before picking her up and hugging her.
“Alright, do y’all want to stay in here or come sleep with us?” I ask. Loki looks at me, and I know he’s worried he will have a bad dream, but with him sleeping on my tits every night, he hasn’t had a single night terror since that first night.
“Without the wall, we can sleep in here. I think we are good now,” Rae says, wiggling to be let down. When Loki sets her down, she runs back to the bed, jumping on it beside Rome. I see them both yawn as I stand, giving them both a kiss on the forehead before walking back to Loki. He helps me over the rubble and sets me on the bed.
“I’ll clean up the mess I made, at least a path for the kids to walk safely, then I’ll come to bed,” he tells me, kissing me hard.
Fucking perfect.