16 June 2004
Emily Pov
It's been a week since Ian's arrest, I know in my heart he must of figured it out by now that I betrayed him. The only thing, well two things he doesn't know is that I really do love him and that I'm four weeks pregnant with his child. At the moment I'm sitting in this hotel room in France waiting for Louise and Declan to return from their trip to the park. Louise now knows who I really am she was told by Interpol when she was taken into be questioned about her employer, Ian Doyle. Later that day she came to see me with Declan telling me how she got my hotel information from Tsia, who believed that I needed to see a friendly face. Louise told me about how she planned to go back to Ireland and be with her family. The real shocker was when she told me she wanted me to take Declan, when I questioned her why. "Why me you've just found out that I have been lying to you and that I'm the reason Ian is in prison."
She replied with "because you are his mother in every sense of the word you are, I can see it in your eyes when you look at him with such adoration. As for Ian, I know what kind of man my employer is it was only a matter of time."
Then she sat forward on her chair like she was going to tell me the secrets of the world and in a way in my eyes she did. "And we both know that deep down even though you are trying to hide it you love him and you can't stop yourself, it's one of the reasons why you are keeping your baby."
Once those words left her lips my hand automatically caressed my stomach, I said in a faint and almost shaky voice "how did you know?"
"Sweetie, I have seen my sisters, countless other family members as well as Declan biological mother go through pregnancy." She put her hand over mine on my stomach and looked me straight in the eyes like she thought I was going to miss what she was about to say. "I know the signs."
I remembered just looking down at my still flat belly while our hands were covering my belly as a way to protect my baby, not my baby, ours mine and Ian's. I was knocked out of reliving the memory when I heard footsteps outside the door of the hotel room. Then all a sudden Declan came running in and when he spotted me sitting on one of the chairs he ran right towards me wrapping his arms around me as I did the same to him. I looked up to see Louise smiling at the sight of us. I then picked up Declan to place him on my lap so we could all talk together about what to do next.
During in the conversation Louise asked Declan who he wants his mommy to be, he straight away turned around to look at me and said "Lauren...I know my daddy wants that too." My heart clenched at the mention of Ian. I told Declan that I want to be his mommy too but there are some really important things we need to talk about before that happens.
I told him "your daddy has had to go away for a very long time, but you need to know that he didn't want to but it's something he had to do, he had no choice."
Declan was confused but settled a little so I could tell him the rest of the things he needed to know this included telling him Louise was going back to Ireland but that we will stay in contact with her, but that didn't stop his eyes for taking a look of sadness. But being brought up by Dole made him able to listen to the rest of the things I needed to tell him. I told him how we would be moving but before we got their we would be stopping off at lots of different place, what I didn't tell him is this was so it would be harder for someone to track us down. I also told him that we would have to change our last names and that I would also have to change my first name. Once I told him it was a bit like having a secret identity he started to smile and then he started to giggle when I started to tickle him.
After that Louise said she would stay with us until I got my forge IDs for me and Declan. Hopefully it would only be a week until me and Declan was on a plane out of France.
Over in a North Korean prison, sat Ian Doyle.
Ian Pov
All he could think about was Declan and Lauren or should he say Emily. The prison guards decide to taught him about the women he loves by telling him who she really was. He already started suspecting that when she was taken away from him in that black sedan. A part of him hated her for taking away his chance to be a father to Declan, but part of him loves her. The logical side of him says she's a traitor and that she's a damn good actress. But his heart says that her eyes don't lie and the way she looked at him so many times with so much love, tells him that she does really love him. He slaps his hands against his forehead knowing if he wants to get out of here that he needs to stop thinking about her it's clouding up his head and that he needs to hate her, so it will motivate him to escape.