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CHAPTER 10: THE BOX

Penulis: Ava Sinclair
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-10-26 02:57:15

They had been in the box for 6 hours.

The gardening shed airlock. 6x6 metal box. No toilet, no bed, just two metal walls and a decontamination shower that sprayed them every 30 minutes. On camera, they looked miserable. Bianca was sitting on the floor, holding her big pregnant belly, crying quietly. Damian was lying down, his arm bleeding through the bandage EVA dropped from a slot, his face pale, sweating. Infection from human bites is deadly without antibiotics.

I was in the main bunker kitchen, eating the steak Killian forced me to eat. "For the pup," he said. My pup. Our pup. 3 weeks old and already making me eat more.

Killian stood by the main screen, watching the airlock camera, gun on his hip, not saying anything for 6 hours. He was angry. Not at me. At them. At the fact that I saved them.

At 11:00 AM, EVA spoke. "Mr. Thorne, Ms. Thorne, male human in airlock has fever 39.5C. Infection spreading. Without antibiotics in next 12 hours, he will lose his arm, then die of sepsis. Female human and fetus stable, but dehydrated. Airlock air will run out in 20 hours. Decision required."

Decision required. Save them fully or let the box become their coffin.

Killian looked at me. "Elena. We can drop antibiotics and water through the slot and leave them there. Let them heal in the box, then kick them out when horde leaves. They never enter main bunker. They never breathe our air. They never touch you."

Keep them like animals in a box. That was his solution. Monster solution, but safe for me and our baby.

I looked at the screen. Bianca looked up at the camera like she knew I was watching. She put her hands together, praying. Begging. Not to Killian. To me.

"Elena, please," she mouthed, no audio. "My baby. Please. Water."

Her baby. 7 months. My baby was 3 weeks. Both innocent.

"Killian," I whispered. "If we were in that box, pregnant, bleeding, would you want someone to give us water?"

He closed his eyes, jaw tight. "We would never be in that box. Because I prepared for 7 years. He prepared for 0. That's why he's dying in a box."

"But we are not monsters," I said, touching my stomach. "We can't teach our baby to be a monster who watches people die in a box when we have 10,000 bottles of water."

He looked at my stomach, at my hand on it. His monster face cracked.

"Fine," he said, voice low and dangerous. "But my rules. Rule 1: They never touch you. Rule 2: They stay in medical bay, locked. Rule 3: He" - he pointed at Damian on screen - "he apologizes on his knees for paying doctors to call you barren. And she" - pointed at Bianca - "she tells you she knew and laughed. I want to hear them say it. Then we give antibiotics."

He wanted justice for me. Not just safety. Justice.

I nodded, tears in eyes. "Okay."

Killian pressed the button. "EVA, open inner airlock door to medical bay. Seal main bunker corridor. Only medical bay access. Prepare decontamination. And bring me my knife."

Knife. He wanted his knife for them.

The inner door of the gardening shed airlock hissed open, connecting to our bunker medical bay. A long, white, clean corridor. Bianca helped Damian stand, dragging him, both of them stumbling into our medical bay, into our palace.

They fell on the clean white floor of our medical bay, dirty, bleeding, smelling like mud and sweat and blood, in our clean world.

Killian and I stood at the other end of the corridor, behind a glass wall. We were clean, in warm clothes. They were dirty, broken.

Bianca saw me first. She started crying hard. "Elena... Elena thank you... thank you for saving my baby..."

Damian looked up, his eyes finding mine, then finding Killian's hand on my stomach. Protective. His eyes widened. "You... you are pregnant? EVA said... you are pregnant? But you are barren... doctors said..."

Killian stepped forward, behind the glass, voice like ice that could cut. "Say it. Say what you did. Both of you. Say it to her face. Or I close this corridor and you die in this medical bay with no medicine. My wife is not barren. Say it."

Bianca broke first. On her knees, pregnant belly on floor, she sobbed. "Elena, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I knew! Damian told me he paid the doctors! He paid Dr. Smith and Dr. Lee to tell you your womb was scarred! He told me you were perfect, but he didn't want a child with you! He wanted to use barren as excuse to divorce you later and take the company! I knew and I laughed when you cried in garden! I told him you were stupid for believing! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Please forgive me! For my baby!"

She knew. She knew and laughed. My best friend knew I was crying thinking I was broken and she laughed.

Damian was next. Fever, dying, but he knew Killian would kill him if he lied. "Elena... Elena I... I paid them. Yes. You were never barren. You were healthy. Perfect. But I... I didn't want a child with you. You were too good. Too kind. I wanted... I wanted someone like Bianca who wanted money, not love. So I could control. I paid them to say you were barren. So you would stay, think no one else would want you. So you would beg me to stay. I'm sorry. I was a monster. Not like him. A cheap monster."

Cheap monster. Yes.

I was crying. Not sad tears. Angry tears. Seven years of thinking I was empty, defective, less than a woman. Three years of 2 AM garden crying. All because this man paid $500 to a doctor.

Killian's hand found mine, squeezing hard.

"Good," Killian said coldly. "Now you know. Now she knows. EVA, give them water. One bottle. And antibiotics for him. One dose. And then lock medical bay. They stay there. No entry to main bunker. Ever."

EVA dropped a bottle of water and antibiotics through the slot.

Bianca grabbed the water, drinking like an animal, then giving to Damian. Damian took antibiotics with shaking hands.

They were alive. In our medical bay. Locked. Our prisoners and our patients.

I looked at my stomach. 3 weeks. Their baby 7 months. Two pregnant women, one bunker, one man who owned everything.

Outside, the horde banged on the fence, 60 infected, smelling blood, wanting in.

Inside, the real drama was just starting. Because a bunker that was built for two now had four. And one of them used to be my husband. And one of them used to be my best friend. And both of them knew I was never barren.

And at 12:00 PM, EVA said something that made Killian drop his gun again.

"Ms. Thorne, update: Your pregnancy hormones doubled overnight. This usually indicates... twins. Congratulations, Ms. Thorne. Twins."

Twins.

I wasn't having one baby.

I was having two.

And Bianca, on the floor behind glass, heard it too. Her face went white.

END OF CHAPTER 10

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AUTHOR NOTE: Elena saved them but they confessed they paid doctors to call her barren! And now Elena is having TWINS! 😭

If you were to be the one, will you let Damian & Bianca inside main bunker or you will leave them in the medical bay to die?

Comment YES - Let them in, or NO - Leave them! I will read all comments! And who do you want baby daddy to be? Killian all the way? ❤️

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