Chapter 3“I don’t wanna go that way, I wanna go this way!”
Axel was standing a bit away from us, pointing in the opposite direction from where we were going.
“Come on now, Buddy. This is the way we’re supposed to go.”
“No!” He gave me an angry glare before turning around, using his back to shun me. I didn’t have the patience for this. In an attempt to control my temper, I ran my hand through my short, soaking wet hair. Maja was fussing, the sun was sizzling, and I was sweating buckets. “Axel Berglund! I’ve had enough of this nonsense. You come here, now!”
“No! You listen, Daddy.” He crossed his arms and stomped his foot. “If I say we go this way, then this way we go. Otherwise, we’re not coming to the forest again!”
I’d had enough, I really had. Axel wasn’t normally a defiant child, b
