Chapter 56

Nate

I placed Axel on the dresser of the room and sat him up straight and then I took a brush and began to comb his hair, placing them on the side. Axel looked at me seriously and carefully with every move I made.

"We make ourselves beautiful for mom," I said, looking into his eyes, "Mom," I said clearly so that he would understand 

"Mama," he replied, clapping his hands.

I nodded and smiled, it was a game we’d been playing the last few days when Axel had accidentally said Mama for the first time, and Maya wasn’t there. Axel had pointed at Maya’s nursing uniform and shouted it out as if he wanted to call her.

Maya was unaware of this, on the contrary, she continued to be angry every day because Axel was shouting Dada. A little game of mine to surprise her. I had trained Axel to say Mom only when I did. It was bad to train a child like a dog, but it was necessary to make my surprise work.

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