Chapter 1
Anger
"Lizzy?" Red glared down at Liz as she tried to step around him. Reaching out he grabbed at her hand but she smacked it away.
"Don't touch me!" She spat out "Don't even look at me! You asshole! "
Red wasn't going to let her leave. He reached out and grabbed her this time, wrapping his long, lean fingers around her wrist."Lizzy I asked you a question. Now you're going to answer me or we're staying here until you do."
Liz tried to pull free of him but all it did was make Red step closer and pull her closer to him. She used her other hand to try to pry his fingers away from her wrist but he wouldn't let her. "Let me go Red!"
"Why did you fake it? Hmmm? Did you think I wouldn't find out? " Red shook his head in disbelief. " You don't know the last person who tried to make a fool out of me. He's bloated and tied down beneath the waters of the most tranquil lake you could ever imagine seeing."
"Red, I said let me go! " Liz brought her free hand up and started punching at his chest. Red grabbed her hand, spun and pushed her hard up against the wall. He moved her hands up over her head and stepped close . Feeling her flat stomach only fueled his anger even more.
"When did you and your little Tom come up with the silly idea of faking your pregnancy Liz? What, in that little head of yours, could of possibly thought you would get away with it? Hmmm?" Red moved to grab both wrists in one hand then forcibly grabbed her jaw turning her face to look at him. "Did you think having a baby would make me leave you alone and allow you to marry that low life?" Red tilted her head up even more to look into his eyes. Stepping even closer he demanded "Answer me dammit!"
Looking up into Red's eyes Liz could see the anger . She felt his anger through her whole body. From the way he was pressed up tight against her, to the way he held her arms above her head, to the twitch of his left cheek as he glared into her eyes. She knew it was only a matter of seconds before he snapped if she didn't give him the truth. She had seen Red snap before, but had never seen him turn his anger towards her.
Liz slowly exhaled a breath before she began. "Red... "
"No lies Elizabeth"
Liz began again "Red.. I'll talk, but not like this. "
"No. We are staying just like this." Red stepped even closer. "Now start again."
"Red.. You are scaring me. "
"Answer the questions Lizzy!"
Red could tell the moment Liz knew she was defeated because her body relaxed into his hold. He looked into her eyes and saw tears starting to pool in the corners. "You want to know why? This! This is why! You're always so demanding and controlling. So possessive. I can't even go out with a guy without feeling your eyes on me. Even when you're not really there. So that day on the boat, I let Tom live in exchange for giving me an out. "
Red's eye twitched again but Liz continued. "Tom and I would start seeing each other again, get pregnant and marry. We knew you wouldn't stop it if you thought a baby was involved. No matter how heartless you are , you would never hurt a child and would want what's best for it. What's best is not you. You would go away so the baby wouldn't be in a dangerous environment. So it could live a normal life!
Red let out a half chuckle deep in his chest. "And what would happen once you were due lizzy?
"We have an adoption lined up. When you thought I was giving the baby up, it was the other way around. I went to the adoption agency to look for one. "
Red let go of her all of a sudden, turned around and strolled to the wedding dress. Flinging the dress aside, he reached down beneath it and pulled out the fake pregnancy belly and held it up to her. "Clever. But this whole charade is over Lizzy."
Red walked to the door and flung it open. Dembe was standing guard and turned around to look at them. Red glared at Liz once more, eyeing her absently rubbing at her wrists where he had held her tight moments earlier. "Come."
Liz felt like she was in shock as she walked beside Red. His hand was at her elbow guiding her out of the shot up church. How was she to know that Tom was still working for Berlin and had wanted to kill her? He and Gina Zanetakos were in cahoots and planned on bombing the church. The only place all the covert FBI task force would be at the same time. Red had saved the day once again, but not before Tom got away. With Tom on the loose Liz knew she could not go home until he was dead. No matter how much she hated to admit it, she had to sneak away with Red once again.