Chapter 3-Love's Demise
"Is it all going perfectly Jenna?" the voice goaded.
"100, they'll never know what hit them"
Five months went by fast and Jenna's due date was in two weeks. Tonight was her baby shower. She walked into her parent's house. Everybody was there, Maggie, Ash, Jacob, Alice and Alice's new husband Norman JR. She went to the living room to sit down and she saw a most glorious sight, two bassinets one pink and one blue. The pink one was inscribed with the name Amanda and the blue one had the name Freddy inscribed. As the night went on Jenna fawned over the plethora of gifts she got from her family and friends that couldn't be there. An hour and a half into her shower her water broke. Everyone was freaking out, except Jenna who calmly cleaned the floor and changed her clothes. "Let's get you to the hospital" Jacob insisted.
"No I can drive, my water broke I'm not in labor yet. I'm not an invalid I can do it." Jenna exclaimed.
Jenna's labor lasted twelve hours. "I said no painkillers! I have a philosophy when it comes to pain, once you stop feeling it you can use it"
"Okay, nurse put the needle down, no drugs! Now push!" After the labor was over Jenna had her beautiful twins Amanda and Freddy. Freddy was born first by 15 minutes.
Two days later Jacob went to see his beautiful wife and their wonderful twins. He went to the gift shop and got all of the gifts he could think of for a new mother. After twenty minutes of shopping, Jacob went to see Jenna. When he went into her room, he gasped and dropped all the gifts. Panicked he called Maggie and Ash's to see if Jenna was there. They went to check her room, she wasn't there but on her bed in a pool of blood was the cover of Jenna's fairy tale book. Maggie screamed "What's wrong Ash? Is Jenna okay?"
"Jacob you might want to go home right away to see if Jenna is there"
"Why?"
"Just go, NOW!"
"No not again he can't have her again. Oh my god maybe he has the twins. No. I can't lose them." Maggie said stifling her tears.
"I'm sure it's nothing." Ash said comforting his wife. "But I fear the worst" Ash though to himself.
Jacob ran to his car as fast as his legs would take him. Running five red lights he rushed home to see if Jenna was home, praying as hard as he could that his wife and children were okay. He ran to his front door fumbling with his keys dropping them twice. He checked the downstairs and there was no sign of them. He feared the worst as he was going upstairs to check their room and the nursery. Relief set in when he saw Jenna in their room, but relief was quickly replaced by confusion when he saw that she was packing her stuff and the children's things. "What's going on sweetie?"
"You sweet simple boy, I never loved you. It was all an act. Grandfather came to me on a night I almost die seven years ago. He told me all about himself, he told me everything, every sordid detail the killing the rage he felt when mother was taken from him, everything. He came to save me from a puzzle box; he called it the Lament Configuration. It was given to me by my parents for my thirteenth birthday. He then told me all about you, your mother, and how I owed him big, how if I followed him I would never be in harms way. So he told me that he needed me to exact his revenge on your mother. He had formulated a plan in which I would make you fall in love with me, have you marry me, bear your twins. I was to name one after him, a child that he could be reborn into. He also told me about this book, on how it would come in handy one day and that it had limitless powers. I took it from the wall safe the day before my baby shower. I figured that there would be too much chaos during the party. I needed you to fear him so I put myself with him, learned his tricks. Now my work is done."
"I'll never let you take my children, I can save you from Freddy's wrath. I love you."
"Don't you get it, I don't want you. I never did. I have my grandfathers powers, the book, and oh yeah the massive fortune that my parents left me, after I kill them of course. With my new powers I can do anything. There is the problem of you. No matter." Just then Jenna showed Jacob the tool of his destruction. A glove she had made herself. Before Jacob could say anything Jenna drew back her arm and slit his throat.