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Chapter Nine

Parker awoke to find a man's arms tightly wrapped around her. She blinked her eyes a couple of time. She was in the room that she was staying in while at Jarod's. She turned her head and watched Jarod sleep. She could barely remember him carrying her upstairs, tucking her in, and then she had begged him not to leave her. She smiled as her hand traced the curves of his handsome face.

He was hers, she thought to herself. She quickly blinked, wondering where that thought had come from. She didn't want him to belong to her. She was unworthy of someone like him. He deserved someone who could love him, have children with him, and could grow old with him. Not some bitch like her. She sighed. She knew she had to let him go. He had belonged inside of her heart for so long. She had loved him ever since she first met him inside the cold rooms of the Centre. She quietly got out of the bed. She was careful not to disturb him before slipping out of the room.

Jarod watched her walk out through the slits of his eyes. He had awoken to her hands touching his face. He turned and buried his head into her pillow. He could smell her. His body had reacted to her hands on him, and now it was screaming at him for smelling her scent on the pillow. He needed a very cold shower.

Parker sat outside staring at the scenery before her. The lush green grass covered the earth around her; she could see the tops of mountains through the clouds of the sky. Trees were starting to change colors; some of the leaves had fallen on the ground, covering the grass like blooms. She could no longer remember the last time she carefully looked at scenery. Her mother used to draw the most beautiful scenery and would promise her that one day they would see those places together. Parker had seen those places, but always without the one person she had wanted to see them with.

"What are you drawing mama?" A very young Parker asked. Her mother looked at her and smiled.

"Heaven" was the only response her mother gave. Parker stared at the drawing.

"Ben's place" Parker mumbled under her breath. That was the place in her mother's picture, her mothers "heaven". Tears beaded up in her eyes and she quickly brushed them away. Her lover and daughter had been Catherine's heaven, and her mother and Jarod had always been her heaven. She knew her mother would be happy for her.

Tell him everything. Her mother's voice whispered in her head.

"No!" she whispered forcefully. "I cannot loose him, because of what I have done. I love him to much." Tears poured from her eyes. "Your right though, he does need to know what I have done to his family."

Parker walked back into the house and watched Jarod's family talk around the dining room table. Because of her family Jarod had to wait so long to enjoy moments like these, moments where he could forget the outside world and just focus on his family. How would he react when she told him?

Parker forced a smile as she watched Ethan whisper something to Major Charles and the Major throw his head back in laughter. She wondered if she would ever open up to Ethan. He had a family that was better that just her, he didn't need her.

Where was Jarod? Parker walked around the dining room and into the living room when she heard his voice. She stopped to get the courage to walk in there and then continued into the room where she found Zoe straddling his lap and kissing him. She stopped dead and felt the blood rush from her head. Suddenly Zoe broke off, looked at her, and smiled before Jarod had even seen who had just walked into the room. Jarod jumped up when he noticed Parker.

"Parker..." He started but was cut off by the living room door being slammed in his face. He turned and glared and Zoe who was giving him a sweet smile. "You planned this. You saw that I was asleep and knew she was coming in here. You bitch." He said before quickly leaving the room to find the woman he loved.

Zoe sat on the couch and fumed. It had almost worked! Jarod had been sleeping in the chair, and Zoe had seen Parker walking this way. Jarod had begun talking in his sleep. It had been perfect. Jarod's voice and lured Parker in the room and Zoe did the rest.

Dam that bitch for ruining her life! She knew Jarod had never been fully in love with her but that was just fine. They had a nice sex life and she could easily control him, until now.

Jarod flung the door open and threw her bags at her. "Get out of this house." He demenaded. His face was red from anger. Zoe pouted, "You can't tell me you didn't enjoy that. I felt the evidence under me."

Jarod gave her such an evil smirk it actually scared him. "I was so blind to you in the past. Isn't it just a little bit embarrassing to you to know that the only reason I was aroused was because I thought you were Parker. You even put on her perfume to fool me even more. I pity you Zoe." With that he walked out of the room.