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Chapter 22
It was a long quiet ride home. My dad drove Ann’s car behind us, we hadn’t told him anything. I was still thinking of a way to tell Ash, imagining all his reactions to the news but one thing I knew for sure was he wouldn’t like it, not one bit.
I stood at the door, gathering as much courage as I possibly could to walk through it. Ann and Maria stood next to me quietly waiting for me to move. I was left with little option but to enter the house when my dad opened the big metal doors wide.
“Lee! I’ve been so worried!” Ash was frantic. I barely made it through the door before he picked me up. I quickly put my folded arms between us to keep my baby bump from touching him.
“You worry too much.” I was happy he wasn’t looking at me directly. I wouldn’t have been able to bear having his loving eyes on me.
“Are you okay?” He placed me down and stared at me. I dropped my eyes and looked at the
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“I don’t know. This has never happened before. Baku has never sired a child, and this one’s Ash’s first. It may have. This morning her pregnancy wasn’t so pronounced, now…” Joe eyed me, probably gauging how far off my temper had gotten. Billy just stared at me angered by my warning.“Is pain, a part of the pregnancy?” My dad was really going to make this worse.“Dad!”“Don’t dad me! You’ve passed out twice because of the pain it was causing you! Today I was sure you were going to die from it.”Ash’s head shot toward my dad, after a few seconds he shifted his gaze to me. His face creased in pain for a second before it went back to being angry. He must have seen me in pain in my dad’s head, and he must have read mine to see exactly how bad it was. That wasn’t going to help my argument.He looked at my belly then at me. His stare was so lethal
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I’d spent two weeks in the AA room crying my heart out. When I had no more tears to shed, I counted all the bottles mounted on the walls. When I was done with that I counted the tiles, and then the raindrops that hit the window. Eating and drinking became a second necessity for me; the lives inside me didn’t even matter. Every time I heard footsteps outside the door, or the phone ring or the door open I thought it was Ash. But when I checked and it wasn’t him. It made me sink deeper into my depression.Jane had called a couple of times to ask why I wasn’t at school but Ann came up with a number of excuses. I wasn’t going to go anywhere until Ash came back. The guys debated on breaking the wall but my sisters wouldn’t have it they said I needed time. Billy also wasn’t going to risk losing all that liquor just to get me out. Joe was mostly worried about my health and that of the twins. I was starving myself in the process starving them.
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I drove my jeep to school and my sisters’ drove in Maria’s car. They wanted me to go with them, but I still didn’t feel like having company. I drove slowly, prolonging the time I had to get to school. All I could think about was how people would react to my current state. Jane would definitely have a field day with this. Josh will be a gentleman about it, but George I wasn’t so sure, he was too crazy for me to pin down his reaction. One thing is for sure, the advances will die a sudden death.I wore one of Ash’s black shirts over a white vest. I felt torn about wearing it, but I had little choice in my own wardrobe and besides my perfume had masked his scent enough for me to stand it. But it was still his—his body had been in it.I drove the car into the slot next to Maria’s Audi. My sisters were standing next to it, with tight fake smiles pasted on their faces. I laughed at the effort they were making to look at ease.I
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I felt heat on my face. I blinked my eyes open to see what it was. The sun was right above me, shining robustly on me. I turned to my side so that I could stand up easily. Considering all the abilities I have, you’d think pregnancy would be as easy as the alphabets. I walked into the water, taking pleasure in the warm water against my feet. People were already filling the place up. I looked at my watch to see what time it was. Twelve in the afternoon, I’d been asleep for a while.I opened up Ash’s shirt to let some of the cool breeze in as I walked to my car. I knew everyone would be worried but it didn’t matter to me. I had enjoyed a peaceful, quiet night alone, and they weren’t going to destroy that.My phone was ringing inside the car. I got in and looked at it, deliberating on whether or not to answer. Before I could decide it stopped ringing, and then it went off, the battery must have died. I took my pocketknife out of the glove compartment and wedged the GPS screen out and then
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“I’m moving back to the apartment soon.” I turned my attention back my food.“Why would you want to do that?” His voice was rising with each word.“Because there’s no reason for me to stay here anymore.” I didn’t dare look up at him. I knew he would fight me on this, but I’d already made up my mind.“You can’t be alone when the change happens.” Joe was the only cool person in the room.“Ash had that all planned out.” I choked on his name. He was supposed to help me when the change finally happened, but he’s left me alone with a lot more than the danger of killing my sisters. I took a sip of water before I went on. “We’ll cross that bridge when the time comes.”“This is because of Ash isn’t it?” Dave was mad. No, he was livid.“Yes and no.” I put another piece of steak in my mouth.“Would
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For the next few days my dad and I tiptoed around each other. He was still feeling guilty for rubbing my disappointment in Ash in my face and for leaving me alone to bleed out on my bed.I was glad my babies didn’t die but I was mad that they abandoned me. I wasn’t up to discussing it or hearing the excuses but that didn’t stop him from trying to convince me not to move out. He thought I was going to shut him out of my life, like I was slowly doing with Ash.The aftermath of the pain left me battered like a town after a hurricane or an earthquake or even a tsunami. Dave was even more adamant about me staying because of it. I was weaker, thinner and felt sicker as the pregnancy and the venom progressed in my body. But I wouldn’t budge, I had made my decision and I was sticking to it. I wanted a new start not away from my family, but far enough to keep my children safe. It was either that or I give them away.Giving my children up for adopt
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I felt a light taping on my face that was beginning to irritate me. I raised my hand to swat whatever it was away. Someone caught my hand and held it tight.“Merilee, wake up.” It was my dad. What did he want?“Daddy, what is it?” I opened my eyes to look at him. He looked relieved. I was on the couch and he was looking down at me holding something cold to my head. Did I fall asleep or pass out again?It didn’t take long before everything came back to me. I panicked. Sabrina was here. I shot off the couch and rushed to the fireplace, my back to it and my hands over my belly. I was glad to feel the twins still swimming around, relieved that they were safe.“Relax, Merilee, they’re gone.” Dad came and stood next to me.I looked around the room, my sisters were here and so were the guys but Sabrina wasn’t. I felt the relief rush over me but it was quickly replaced by a panging throb at the back of
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“I’ll come with you. Ann bring a bottle upstairs, I think I need that drink too.” Maria took my arm and helped me upstairs.We sat on my bed and talked about everything and anything except for what happened hours ago. Ann and Maria were on their second bottle of wine, trying hard not to fall asleep. They were determined to stay awake with me, but they kept dozing off in the middle of a sentence then they would wake up with a start and continue where they left off. The amusement of the two clowns alone kept me awake. Drinking did make people look and sound stupid.When they finally gave in and passed out in my bed, I was left with the thoughts of the attack and how much in danger my children were. It was no longer about my sisters or me, we were old enough to make our choices and we’d made them. I was ready to spend my life with Ash but that was never going to happen, my sisters, depending on how much they were willing to take of this life and de
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