Chapter 1
I would not let my little ones know why we were
always on the run, but I knew, for it was my fault that we were being chased.
My name is Evangeline
I was born long before you can remember but have not aged passed my 20th year.
For on that year, many things changed.
I meet the love of my life, Alexander,
It was destiny that we meet. We soon feel in love and were betrothed. Things
were like a dream; we got married in a big church with lots of our friends and
just two days after 16th birthday. It was law that at the age of 18
a young lady was to be married or to be put in the convent. family. It was a
dream come true, only we all have to eventually wake up from our dreams.
It was not long after we got married that things with Alexander changed, he
would tell me to do something and if I did not do it right away... well let me
just say bad things would happen. I tried to get help from my family but my mom
said that the head of the family was the husband so anything that happened in
our home was his problem and was to be addressed to him only. I felt betrayed
by my own family, they would not help me in my darkest hour, or so I thought.
Later that same year I found out that I was pregnant. I was over joyed and
terrified at the same time. Here I was with a child inside of me but the father
was my husband and when I told him the news he yelled at me. He yelled at me
and asked me how I could let such a monster invade my body when his life was so
perfect. He was mad that me, his perfect wife was going to get fat and have
that thing he called a "monster". Although he did not want me to have
the baby (no way not to) I did and, as time passed we noticed I was a lot bigger
then what most women got when they were expecting, I mean a lot bigger. I began
to think that maybe I was having more than one baby; Alexander found this news
even more disturbing. I no longer knew how to please my husband and no one
would help me. I felt so alone well not really alone I had my dear babies to
love me. But as time went on and it became present that I was indeed pregnant
with more then one baby Alexander became hostile and would not let me outside
the house for any reason what so ever. This frightened me for when it can close
to their birth and when the children were to be born Alexander would just
leave, you would think that would be a good thing but before he left he would
lock me in a dark room and took the key.
I delivered the two most beautiful children any mother could have, that year,
by my self but something was wrong. Not with the babies but with me. I felt so
strange, I never thought that I could feel like that again but there I was
feeling happy for what seemed like the first time in my life, but that soon
came to an end.
Alexander would go on a rampage and attempt to kill my children. I was so
scared that I would hid them away and take the punishment that he would give,
it soon became a regular thing and the children began living in a secure
chamber in the house that Alexander did not know about. I knew that I had to
get out but I had no money and since I was a woman I had no way to escape the
clutches of my husband.
I turned 18 and we had a big party but only Alexander's friends came, all my
friends were not allowed to come or were so afraid of my husband that they did
not want to come. The day just got worse when my fears were confirmed that I
was pregnant again. I was scared to tell my husband that I had allowed the
so-called "monster" to invade my body again. He found out later that
week when I was getting morning sickness. He was furious at me like I though he
would be but what I did not expect him to do was deny that he was the father. I
was so sad he thought that I had cheated on him when I had been faithful even
when I knew for a fact that he had cheated on me.
I decided that it was time for me to leave and take my kids with me. I packed a
bag for us all and later that night I snuck out of bed got the kids and left. I
have never regretted my decision but I fear that Alexander will find me and
kill us all, so I keep running.