Hey, i'm back at University for my second year and I've got tons of work to do so sorry for the slower updates, but I've got the next three or four chapters (including the infamous showdown at the ball) written up (when I should be studying) so we should be all good to go :) x
The Grey's had demanded on a family dinner before Jade went to Israel. They knew practically none of the details and none of them were happy about her decision, but they were well aware they had no say on it.
Of all of them, Luke was the least happy, and his absence from the dinner was painfully obvious. He'd barely spoken to Jade for the last few days since she had decided to go to Israel. She had spent all of her time with Faith, well aware she would be spending a few days away from her baby daughter, possibly in incredible danger.
The dinner was uncomfortable, Luke wasn't there and Jade had gone on an absolutely punishing run for over an hour before they sat down to eat. She was exhausted, tired, and in no mood to talk to any of them.
Elliot however, was doing his best to keep the atmosphere upbeat, though it fell very flat 'So, J, where's Luke tonight? He on babysitting duty?' Jade looked up with a dark look 'no, actually he isn't speaking to me and won't even look me in the eye at the moment, I think a whole meal sat next to me would probably kill him'.
Elliot blanched, his brain giving him nothing helpful to say as he sat swirling his spoon around in the pea soup 'Mum, I thought you were doing pea and ham soup?' Jade glanced up 'I don't eat pork genius'.
After that no one made a direct attempt to talk to Jade and include her in the conversation, it was clear that she wanted to speak to none of them, not about her failing marriage, the daughter she was going to have to abandon for Israel, or the danger she was going to face when she got there.
Carrick was finishing up a phone call on the terrace after the meal when Jade appeared in the doorway, looking uncomfortable. 'Jade, honey are you okay?'. She was silent for a few seconds, closing the sliding door behind her 'Granddad, can we talk?'. He nodded, putting his phone away and looking warily over his granddaughter.
Jade looked like she had weight of the world on her shoulders and took an envelope out of her back pocket and tapped it gently. 'I want you to take this, incase anything...happens...to me, then I want you to make sure everything's you know- taken care of'.
Carrick visibly paled 'what?' Jade sighed 'well... If anything happens to me, I want to know that my daughter is looked after'. Carrick nodded stiffly 'right...wouldn't that be Luke's job- to look after Faith?'.
Jade nodded slowly 'yeah, but I've got an account set up for her, in the event anything happens to me. It should pay for college…pay for a few things' Carrick shook his head 'you don't think that we would all provide for her?'.
Jade sighed, tapping the envelope distractedly 'of course you would, but if I wasn't 'around', then I'd want my child to know that her mother cared about her and loved her. You can't understand how hard it is to know that your mother doesn't care'.
Carrick looked at the dark, sad eyes of his granddaughter and swallowed the lump in his throat 'you know who she is don't you?' she nodded 'I've always known., and if anything happens to me I want Faith to know how much I love her, and that this was something I had to do, I didn't leave her'.
Carrick was silent and Jade handed him the envelope 'you're my Granddad but you're also my lawyer, please, take it'. He took the heavy envelope, eyes filled with tears.
Jade left for Israel the following morning on a flight two hours before the one she'd told her family and Luke. Her husband had begrudgingly
She hadn't slept at all, everyone was asleep in Carrick and Grace's house after the family dinner; Jade had waited until everyone was asleep and had gone into the room next to hers and Luke's where Faith was sleeping in a pale pink cot. Jade had stayed up all night crying her eyes out, holding Faith close to her the whole time.
Her little baby had no idea of the torment her young mother was going through, crying for so long that she began to feel physically unwell by the time the sun was rising.
Jade had said a painful goodbye to her daughter early in the morning, though Faith was unaware of what was going on, sleeping soundly as Jade left silently, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, just like the last time she had left for Israel.
Yep, you can't keep the Grey's out of the drama can you?
Do you think Luke and Jade will stay together or is it just not meant to be?
And what's going to happen to Jade? Especially after what happened the last time...
Let me know what you think x