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Now, on with chapter 10…

Chapter 10: Shalimar

Jesse looked at the beautiful girl before him. He thought was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She looked to be a few years older than he was and something about her was just wild. She was blonde, tall, and curved in all the right places. She smiled at him sweetly, "Hi, my name is Shalimar Fox."

Shalimar looked at the two before her, the young girl before her was brunette with blue eyes. She felt innocence around the girl she hadn't felt in a long time. She smelled like lilacs and guessed it was her perfume.

The guy was blonde, also with blue eyes and dimples that were adorable. She saw sadness in his eyes that told her more than he meant to and for some reason her heart went out to him. His eyes were cast down to the floor as if he was avoiding contact. At first she thought he as shy, but now she knew it wasn't. He didn't make friends easy it was obvious.

"Hi my name is Kaelyn, this is Jesse," said the girl as she extended her hand to Shal.

Shal took it and then extended her hand to Jesse, "Nice to meet you both."

Jesse looked at her before taking her extended hand, "Nice to meet you too."

"Let me know you both around, come this way," said Shal as she left the room. Kae and Jesse looked at each other, and then followed.

"Welcome to Sanctuary," said Shal, "I show you both to your rooms then tomorrow morning I'll give you a more basic tour of the place. I would do it tonight, bit I'm sure you're both tired from the long drive."

"We are actually," said Kaelyn, "what did you say this place was called?"

"Sanctuary."

"Why is it called that?" asked Jesse.

"Well I named it that actually, when I first came here Adam said I could name it if I wanted to. It was first time I have ever felt safe, so I called it my sanctuary."

"Why was it the first time you ever felt safe?"

"I'm a feline feral, my mom died when I was young and my dad couldn't deal with me being a freak against nature. He sent me away to a mental institution, where they beat me every night trying to break my spirit. They thought they could beat the feral out of me I guess. By the, since you two are looking at me strange, I'm guessing neither of you know what a feline feral is."

"You're right, we don't," said Kae.

"Well you guys want some warm milk before bed?"

"What do I look like a cat?"

Shalimar laughed and so did Adam as he came down the hall before them.

Kae looked at Jesse and Jesse at her; they must have missed the joke.

"All right, what's so funny?" asked Jesse.

"A feline is a cat, feral is an animal. Anyway, I have the DNA of a cat, which means instinct wise I'm a cat," she laughed at Jesse's face.

"I didn't mean..."

"Don't worry about it, we're cool Jesse," said Shal. "All right, let me show you both to your rooms and we can go to bed tonight."

"Ok, sounds great," said Kae."

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"All right Kaelyn this is your room."

"Wow, looks great, especially the bed."

"Tired huh?"

"Yeah, way past my bed time. Good night Jesse, night Shalimar, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too, nice to have another girl around here too. Adam totally misses the fact of PMS."

"I do not miss it, on the contrary, you remind me every month," said Adam jokingly.

Jesse chuckled, "How bad can she be?"

Shal flashed her feral eyes at him and he backed up against the wall, "What was that!"

Shal laughed out loud, "Jesse, calm down, it's just my eyes, and they can change."

"Don't do that!"

"Sorry."

"Shal, show Jess to his room, I need to talk to Kaelyn briefly."

"Ok Adam."

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"Here you go Jesse, this is your room."

"Thanks."

"So I noticed you looking at all the computers, you like them or something?"

"Yeah, love computers, they are amazing."

"Yeah, Adam is teaching me some stuff, like email and Instant Messaging."

"Cool, maybe you can show me around tomorrow."

"Sure, so Kaelyn's pregnant."

"Yeah, Adam told you?"

"Yeah, he just tells me everything because he knows if he doesn't I'll snoop and find out anyway."

"Ah ok."

"Oh, I forgot to tell Kaelyn about the phone in her room, there is one in here too. You can use to call whoever you want, without it being traced back here."

"All right, good to know, would like to talk to my two best friends and let them know I'm ok."

"Cool, just don't tell them where you are. The location of Sanctuary is top secret."

"OK."

"Cool, anyway, let me go tell Kae about the phone."

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"What did you want to talk to me about Adam?"

"Well Kaelyn, I wanted to talk to you about the baby and some test I need to run on you."

"Why couldn't you tell me in front of Jesse?"

"Because I'm not sure how much contact Jesse has with his father and I don't want his father to find out what's going on here."

"Why not?"

"Because if Jesse's father ever knew about this baby, he would move heaven and earth to take this baby from you both. Noah Kilmartin is very dangerous."

"I've never met Jesse's mom or dad."

"I pray you never do. I'm not trying to scare you, but I believe Noah would kill this child."

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Shalimar leaned against the wall outside Kae's room. She hadn't meant to overhear their conversation. She couldn't believe what she had heard, how could one man be so horrible? She had never heard Adam say anything like that about anyone. Would this Noah guy really kill a child?

So will Shal tell Jesse what she overheard? Will they be able to protect this child from Noah or lose the baby forever? Keep reading and reviewing to find out. No reviews mean no story, lol. I mean why write if no one is reading.