Battle Against Sphinx

Chapter - Twenty nine

Julia

On mentioning Irad’s mother Paxton started crying. “I remember watching her die . I mean her funeral and I had and have never felt that bad my entire life. For many years even though I didn’t remember the exact reason why , I have blamed myself for her death. She was such a sweet person . She didn’t deserve it. We should have been punished.” He started saying all such things, and blamed himself the entire time he cried.

I side hugged him and cried in my shirt . I couldn’t console him. I had no words to say him. What can I even say? We all know that’s the truth. Irad died because of us, his mom and Paxton’s dad too . All because of us.

I stayed like that holding Paxton until he drifted off to sleep crying. I laid him gently in the bed with Miles' help.

“What do we do?” he aske