The aftermath

[Third person POV]

"Good evening, as you know, I am Mimi Dawson, and after Ellen Mule's live video we all know why we are here tonight. Kaleah and Zoey Beckett were found alive and well, and the Becketts are going to be sleeping a better sleep tonight. But Ellen Mule who is to be arrested and charged as soon as he is out of the hospital due to the injuries, he sustained during the brutal beatdown he got from Clayton Beckett. Please continue to send thoughts and prayers to the Becketts, as they are going through a hard time still, and let us know what you think about the way Clayton Beckett rescued his wife and we will be reading your comments first thing tomorrow morning, goodnight have a safe and lovely night."

Crystal is floored, how did they find Ellen his plan was full proof, no one was going to even guess he would use his dead brother's place.

"Mother? What are we going to do?" Layla said stuttering with fear, "did you see how they beat Ellen? What if he comes for us too? There was so much blood."

"Shut up, they will never come for us, we knew nothing about what Ellen was doing," Crystal groaned, just then her husband still smelling of alcohol barged in.

"Ellen you brat, what happen to my credit card," he yells, he looked around the room to the two women no finding his son. "Where is that brat?"

"Are you really asking that, how long have you been out of touch with reality," Crystal groaned, "Ellen has been arrested for kidnaping Clayton Beckett's wife."

"What? Where am I going to get my money from? I need to have enough money for tomorrow's horse race."

Crystal could stop but start crying, yes, she hated Ellen, even though he longed to be loved by her, she still hated him, she neglected, starved him, she made him suffer.

But he needed him more than he could ever need her, he was the one who made them able to survive to this point.

"Huh…." She sighed heavily before sitting on the couch, "we are going to have to find jobs, because I am sure the whole company that we get money from is about to go down.

"What?" Layla squealed along with Caleb Mule's dissatisfied groan.

"What do you mean we? It was Ellen's job to get us money." Caleb says angrily.

"Well, Ellen is going to spend a long time behind bars, and Clayton Beckett is going to go an extra mile before we are bankrupt, just face it, we are going to swim in poverty yet again."

The family felt like they were in doom, but they didn't even plan for the charges a certain Joshua Carter was planning against them.

[Meanwhile]

It has been a few hours since both Zoey and Kaleah were brought to the hospital, and the family still waited outside.

"Mr. Beckett," Dr Martin called, he was trying his best to tread on eggshells, he had saw what this man was capable off and all the stories' people told before were nothing short of an understatement.

Clayton stands up still wearing the same clothes covered in blood, "yes."

"Well, we were able to stitch your wife's wounds, nice she had too many open wounds we had to use bandages," Dr Martin says, explaining things he shouldn't have, he was afraid, one bad word about his wife, he could be another statistic.

"Just tell me if she is going to be okay or not?" Clayton roared.

"Clayton Beckett that is not a way to talk to other people," Melisa Beckett says, entering the hospital along with Cyan, "why didn't you tell me you found my babies, Oh, look at you, Evelyn Carter, I trusted you to keep these stupid men around you in check."

"Sorry grandmother," Evelyn says, "but Ellen kind off deserved it."

Melisa frowned, she did get the anger felt by Clayton in the situation, but she didn't want her grandson to be viewed as a monster, that video was nothing short of gruesome.

"Anyway, Doctor what it the update on my babies," Melisa says, she will scold them for what they did later, what was important now was Leah and Zoey.

"As I was saying, Mrs. Beckett, had too many opens wounds so we had to bandage her heavily," Dr Martin says, "we also checked her for any STDs she might have attained, we will have results soon as tomorrow morning."

"She is now heavily sedated, it will take some time to wake her up as she needed to be in a medical induced coma," he explained, "Zoey Beckett on the other hand is okay, apart from the small scratches and bruises there is nothing major, she wasn't sexually abused in anyway."

The doctor watched as Clayton coil his fists angrily at his last words, he felt scared, was he getting the fists too.

"Can we see them?" Melisa says smiling at the doctor kindly.

"Um…. Of course, just need to go in small groups, um… though Mrs. Beckett is far from being discharged, you can take Zoey home, based on the trauma she experienced it would be good for her to be in a familiar environment."

The family took turns visiting Kaleah's room one at a time, Clayton being the last person to go.

"Hey…" he softly muttered looking at his wife's lifeless body, she looked so peaceful, if only the world was as peaceful, no crazy monsters to kidnap her or hurt that beautiful soul of hers.

"I am sorry, I should have protected you better," he says gently touching her bruised face, "I will protect you better this time, well if you give me a chance to, not that I deserve a chance after being so incompetent."

"Clay, grandmother says you should go home and clean yourself up, you can't go around with that fool's blood all over you," Cyan says, Clayton didn't move, he just stood there as he looked at his wife.

"I have failed her, haven't I?"

Cyan rolled her eyes, yes Kaleah's situation was terrible, but it was not Clayton's fault, if anyone it is Cyan who set up that dating app profile, she is the one who made her meet the Ellen guy.

"If anyone is to blame about this is me," Cyan says with a hitched breath, "I am the one who made her meet that monster in the first place."

"You couldn't have known Cyan," "neither could you have."

The two looked at the sleeping Kaleah before saying "we will protect her better in the future," in union.

"Anyway, where is my daughter, I think I should take her home," "with grandmother, she has been hugging her the whole time they reunited."

"Of course," Clayton lets out a bitter chuckle, "take care of her until I come back okay."

"Sure thing bro."

A tearful reunion between father and daughter was witnessed outside Kaleah's room, "hey there princess," Clayton says hugging Zoey.

"I am so sorry I am late; you and mama shouldn't have experienced that okay," he said, Zoey, kept jumping in happiness in her father's arms.

"You are so forgiving my princess, you deserve such an amazing father," he says with tears in his eyes.

Zoey continue to jump in his arms before wiping the tears off her father's eyes, making him calmer, "I can't believe, I am holding you with that monster's blood, over me and you still want to comfort me." He grumbled.

'Let us go home, we will come back tomorrow to get your mama," he says leaving the hospital, with Melisa following behind him.

"So?" Joshua asked, "want to go start burying the Mule family?" he asked his wife who nodded.

"I will stay here with Kaleah and Cyan," Conan says, Taryn says she will bring food.

Clayton went home, before taking a long shower it felt calm, too calm, he was too angry to be this calm.

After a shower he changed into comfortable clothes before giving Zoey a bath, making sure he is careful around the small wounds.

She still jumped happily in the water, maybe that was the beauty of kids their oblivious nature. He smiled as he watched her play in the water, which was until one of the bottles on the shelves fell to the ground and Zoey started crying.

"Hey, I am right here," he said consoling the child, maybe children weren't so oblivious as he thought.

He continues to change her to comfortable clothes as she cries, before moving her bed to his room, she needed her father to be next to her, he had known then that even his daughter would need healing.