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Darkness Chapter 22
JaredI wake up feeling a little off. I feel extremely dizzy and I'm lying on someone's lap. I look around the room and see something I never wanted to. When Laynie told me, she was pregnant last year, I didn't want to admit it. I didn't want to deal with it. As soon as I saw the baby pacifier I knew that everything I had put her through was wrong. So wrong. I have destroyed Laynie like my father destroyed my mother. My father. Shit. I need to call him. I'm going to be late today. The inspectors should be on the cite in a few days and I need to be there.I try to lift my head up but feel a hand on my forehead. I close my eyes hard from being dizzy and try to reopen them. When I see Laynie I'm a little confused. Why am I on her lap?"What's going on? I ask her."Oh God Jared. I was so scared. You fainted an hour ago. I was worried you weren't going to wake up. Thank God." She says holding me in a grappling hug.I pull her arms from me, not wanting her to touch me, not here anyways. She
Darkness Chapter 23
JaredYesterday I spent all day feeling sorry for myself. I crawled into bed after my heart walked out the door and cried. I cried for Laynie, I cried for my mother, I cried for our child we lost before we were blessed with. I barely ate, didn't shower, I just walked around the entire house going through the motions.Here is where I pushed her into the wall, here is where I called her useless. Here is where I told her to get away from me. I let myself go through every memory of pain I put her in. I re live every bit of agony and let myself relish in it.Today is the day I right all my wrongs. I knock on the door to my father's office and wait for him to answer. I march right past his secretary as she screams at me to stop, so I know he is in here and I know he was informed I'm here. Security has not come to escort me out yet so it seems like he wants to see me.Someone opens the door and I walk in to see my father at his desk on the phone. I look to the body guard with sunglasses on an
Darkness Chapter 24
Laynie"So, where do you want to start today Laynie?" Jackie asks from her chair. It's the same question she asks every time I walk into her office."I want to talk about my wedding." I say with my head held high. Right after Jared told me to leave I bought a plane ticket back to Minneapolis. I knew that Jared was right. We were too damaging to each other in our current state. It was time for me to come home for a while, get myself better and then start anew. I miss Jared every day. It was only recently I stopped crying at night for him. I love him so much and although he has put me through so much I no longer blame him.As soon as I got back, Anna suggested I start therapy. It was time I worked out everything that I had been through. It's been four months and I feel like a different person."That's a good place to start. What would like to talk about in regard to that topic?" she asks. Jackie is always professional. She came recommended by Anna, although I'm not sure how she kne
Darkness Chapter 25
JaredDropping Laynie off was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I planned on being between her legs by now, which is why I had Anna sleep somewhere else tonight. We had been planning this for a few weeks now. I never planned on leaving Laynie forever, but I knew we both needed time. Anna kept me up to date on everything that went on with her. Seeing Jackie seemed to be the best thing to happen to her. I can see her personality is stronger. She seems more sure of herself.I couldn't be prouder of her for finding her way.I get back in my car, after a lustful kiss goodnight in her doorway and making sure she locked the door. I pull my phone out and shoot her a text. I already miss her and I need to tell her so. I'm sure she can still see my headlights through the window because her texts read, you haven't even left yet. I pull out and head to a hotel calling Anna on the way.She answers right away with heavy breathing."W-what?!" she screams while panting. I don't even want to gu
Darkness Chapter 26: Epilogue
LaynieSo, Irony can be damaging, hurtful and cruel. It can inflict pain that knows no boundaries, but I think irony is meant to allow you to see the good in every situation. For me and Jared it did just that. Six months ago, I was afraid he might turn back into his former self. He did, and it was perfect. I know Jared is my forever and if I didn't know it before, I for sure know it walking down the aisle to him. Jared was right, I did deserve my dream wedding. We are in our new backyard that sits on a beautiful hill. Jared bought my dream home. We are still in Minneapolis, but plan on moving back to New York. We decided not to have our past dictate our future, besides my restaurant is there and so is his business. In fact, Maggie's opens in one week. I couldn't be happier. We still currently see therapists. Jackie was able to recommend me to great psychologist. We still struggle every day, but we are fighting for our love. That's all anyone can really do.I glance up at my father
Darkness Chapter 27: Prologue
VOLUME TWO: SHAMECandice1 year agoI rush through the parking lot to find my car. My heart is beating a million beats per minute. Please don't let her be hurt. Please don't let her be hurt. The last five minutes of my life come rushing back to me in fragments.Fire at Roxy's Café....Ambulance is on the way....We can't find her Candy…I hop in my old beat up 97' cherry red mustang, jam the key in the ignition and rush out of the hospital parking lot. I make the thirty-minute drive in ten minutes. I can see all the fire trucks and ambulances in the café parking lot. Once I park my car I run out and run right up to the yellow tape a police officer has just finished setting up. He stops me before I can make it any further."Ma'am I need you to stay back. Fire department is not done surveying the damage yet."I look past him and look around. I notice the fire is out at the restaurant, but it doesn't matter. The café is totaled. Black smoke and metal are all of what is left of w
Darkness Chapter 28
CandiceI lean down a little so that I am eye to eye with little Jeffrey. The emergency room is especially busy today. My shift has been over for about half an hour now but Dr. Toring asked me to stay and help this last patient. Little Jeffrey Dillons has broken his arm. He cannot be more than six years old and is being very brave."Okay buddy, how does that feel?" I ask patting softly at his cast. His mother informed me when they first arrived, that he and his big brother were playing on their new bunkbeds, when Jeffrey fell off the top bunk. She was more hysterical than he was. We get that a lot. Most of the time when the child comes in they are more concerned with getting in trouble. It wasn't until he was being pulled and yanked on by Dr. Toring that he actually started crying."Feels better, but itchy. Do I have to wear this?" He asks. We get that a lot too. Although most of the time it's from people twice his age whom have broken their arm from a skateboarding accident."Af
Darkness Chapter 29
CandiceI walk into work the next day determined that today is going to be a good day. After I took a four-hour nap yesterday, I was awoken by my mom leaning over my bed with homemade peanut butter cookies, my favorite, apologizing to me. Once we made up, we ate the delicious stew she had made from scratch and binge watched some Netflix. When I awoke this morning, it was excessively gloomy outside, but I told myself that I would not let the weather get me down. I am determined to have a great day."Hey, listen I have an important client in right now. He and his wife were attacked early this morning in their home. Do me a favor and check in on him now and then but when he awakens let me know." Melissa says popping her gum, sitting on her desk.Melissa started working here a few months ago and she is what one might call…well…lazy. She is flat out rude and thinks she is better than everyone else. She usually only wants to take care of the c-list celebrities that we get in. I've had to
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