Hi, I'm back.
I'm thrilled with the response Chapter Nine got from you and I thank you all for your reviews, this is somewhat shorter than the last one.
Now without further a do,
on with the show...
CHAPTER TEN
"Erik" Madame Giry began. "Is there anything the matter with Cara?"
"No, why?"
"Well look at her" She pointed over at the edge of the lake, Cara was sat there staring at nothing in particular." She didn't come to say hello to me when I entered."
"She's missing her mother" Erik sighed. She wasn't the only one.
"How long did she say she'd be?"
"Two days Joanne" he couldn't help the sigh that escaped him. "And it's been five"
"Don't you think you should go looking for her?"
Christine sat on the bed which had been hers during that month two years ago that she'd been living in the godforsaken Chateaux
The baby in her womb was her last link with her family- she'd taken to calling it Erik; if it so happened that it was another girl she would be called Erika- as she had originally wanted to call Cara.
Raoul might have her hand but he would never sire her children.
Cara awoke in her father's arms
"Papa?" she mumbled.
"Good morning Little Angel" he kissed the top of her head. "Did I wake you up?"
She shook her head. "Where going?"
She'd noticed that they were moving through the tunnels
"I'm taking you to Nana's house"
Her reaction was to scream "NO! NO! NO!"
"Cara, Cara" he cooed rubbing her back. "What is the matter?"
"You not come back" she had tears in her large obsidian eyes
Erik knew that his daughter was a perceptive child but he hadn't realized that she'd worked out that there was a chance that she may never see her mother again- her terror at being left with the woman who was, for all intents and purposes, her grandmother shocked him.
"Of course I'll come back baby" he looked her in the eye as he made this promise. "I'm going to the place that your mama went- and I'm going to get her back" he didn't add the 'I hope' that his mind yelled at him.
"Promise Papa"
"I promise you"
Cara smiled for the first time in nearly a week- the joy his promise brought her lit up her pale little face
Erik mounted his horse- Cara had made him promise to come back yet again and her parting words echoed in his mind.
"Love Papa" after that she'd hugged him tightly and kissed his cheek.
He would get his wife back- his second child would not grow up calling that blonde idiot papa and said idiot would finally get what was coming to him.
There you go- the next chapter will be longer, you have my word
I probably won't be able to update until after Christmas- but I will try and do it before New Year
Let me know what you think
and I remain, Dear Readers
M.V