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Chapter Two

Rayna awoke up in Deacon's arms. His soft skin was securely against hers, even when she slept he was still protecting her from danger. His permanent smile on his face make her laugh and the sound of her phone beginning to ring only irritated her. She carefully moved Deacon's arm, seeing his whole body turn around the bed as she carefully leant over to the cabinet and picked up the gadget to answer the call. She looked down at her screen not quite sure if she was reading the dialer correctly. 'Teddy Ringing' A million thoughts ran through her head, were the girls okay, had something happened to them, had something happened to her father, was someone they knew hurt. Before she kept taunting herself she pressed the green button on the phone and spoke into it.

"Rayna, I've been calling you for the last ten minutes..." The frustration in his voice began to frighten Rayna. She had never heard him like this before, well not when they were together.

"I've only just woke up. What's going on Teddy?" She spoke clearly into the phone, her body was still half asleep and the sound of Deacon snores next to her kept distracting her back to the thought that she should still be asleep. She carefully crept out of the bed and into the corridor so she could raise her voice without stirring Deacon again.

"What's going on? Rayna? What's going on? It's in the papers, it's online, its everywhere" The pain in his voice was like daggers through the speakers. His heart was breaking and Rayna could feel it. He seemed so scared of whatever had been leaked. She remembered back to when all of the divorce rumors came out and how he reacted.

"Teddy, what's in the papers? I haven't looked yet" Rayna couldn't fully understand what secret could be so bad to destroy him so deeply.

"Maddie, Rayna, Maddie" A silence on Rayna's end of the phone call was all he was received with. A few tears found their way down her cheeks as the day they had both prayed would never come had been confronted with without their say so or preparation.

"Teddy, listen to me..." She took a deep breath as she prepared to say something, anything to which she believed would calm him down til she could get round there. "We're going to sort this out".

"Rayna, I want to believe you. But the fact is Maddie will find out, and she will ask questions. I love her too much to lie to her, that dance the other week, it was the best we have got on a while, and I can't lie to her. I promised her I changed" He gulped loudly as he thought how she'd react, the way she'd walk away from him saying she never wanted to see him again.

"Teddy?" Rayna spoke into the phone waiting for a further response from her ex-husband. "I'll get dressed and sorted and I'll be over by 10 okay? Get the girls some breakfast, I'll call Tandy and get her to take Daph to the films or something and we'll sit Maddie down and we'll talk yeah?" Rayna felt this was their only option. Open truth.

"Yeah...Okay...Thanks" And with that he ended the call.

Rayna stood still. She didn't know what to do. Her daughter's real father was laying in the bed she had been in only ten minutes previously, he had been kissing and hugging her for days, he had been clueless for years and she didn't know how he'd react. She didn't know how Maddie would react. She had hated Teddy after the Peggy situation and the phone calls, and this could surely only give her the excuse to walk away for good. And how would she react to Deacon? They had always got on, that special connection.

"Tandy, I'm at Deacons. Come get me? X" was what she sent she knew she'd see it instantly and within minutes would be outside.

"Who was that?" Deacon yawned mid sentence as he found himself wondering into the kitchen and instantly turning on the kettle as he prepared to fresh mugs for him and his guest.

"Oh it was Teddy. Crisis at home" Rayna kept her sentences short. She didn't know what to say nor how to react or deal with everyone at the same time.

"Ray, is it bad? I can take you home?" Deacon immdently offered, his hand instantly brushing against her arm as he began comforting her.

Rayna gently moved away, she couldn't let him hold her, not when he didn't know what was about to come to the surface. She couldn't hurt him anymore. "It's fine. Tandy is on her way to come get me, I'll call you later" She finished her sentence and with that she left the home, closing the front door firmly behind her as she found Tandy's car outside promptly waiting.

She opened the car door, her body instantly falling back against the leather of the passenger seat. She took a deep breath and allowed her body to release the pain she had been keeping in. Her face was now pure white, her eyes were glossy as she knew she was about to lose a fight. She watched as her eyes continued flooding down her cheeks, the pain in her chest tightening as Tandy drove into Teddy's drive. "Tandy, I'll get Daph, do you mind taking her out for a bit? I'll explain everything when you're back?" Was all Rayna managed to say.

"Of course" Tandy agreed willingly. She loved spending time with her nieces, and especially wanted to help her sister. She had never seen Rayna is such a mess as she was when her and Deacon had first split up and she was left on her own.

Rayna walked inside the house, the familiar smell greeted her, and the mess that only Teddy would allow welcomed her. She looked across to the fridge and saw the pictures the girls had drawn throughout their school lives. She saw her girls walk through as they both paced fastly towards her and embraced their mother tightly. "I've missed you girls" Rayna smiled deeply.

"Daph, your Aunty Tandy is waiting on the drive to take you out" Rayna spoke excitedly, seeing her daughter looking as excited if not even more. She jumped at the chance and leapt out of the room before even saying goodbye.

"How come only Daph is going?" Maddie looked confused. She had never been singled out before by their aunty, let alone by her own mother's instructions. Teddy walked through, sitting next to Rayna as they all positioned themselves around the kitchen benches.

"Maddie, me and your father need to speak to you..."