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Chapter 28

"Okay, we are definitely going to need some things here if this is going to be our home the following months," Liz said as she put down Emma. They were standing in the middle of the warehouse. Emma started running around the large empty room, her arms out in the air – pretending that she was an airplane, with sound-effects and the whole package. The floor was in concrete, dirty to say the least. The walls were made of sheet-metal, and the room they were standing in now was big enough to hold six cars. In one of the corners were some tires piled, and the room was partly illuminated by the daylight that seeped in through small narrow windows at the top of the walls. That meant that the windows were about three meters above ground, since the ceiling was high. At the north wall were three doors. There was one little area with a sink, a micro-oven and a refrigerator, which probably should be the kitchen. And that was about it.
"Is there even a bathroom here?" Liz asked Kira.
"Yes, actually there is," Kira said. "This warehouse were used as a garage before it hit bankruptcy. So there was a small toilet at the back there, and I had a bathtub plus a hand-shower installed as I moved here."
"Okay," Liz nodded.
"Are you okay with this?" Max asked. "Otherwise we can find something else."

Liz shook her head. She couldn't deny that it was the perfect hiding place. No one would suspect that she was living in a warehouse. She hadn't even believed that she would ever live in the warehouse. It was not exactly something you planned. Oh, where are you gonna live when you grow up? I always wanted to live in a warehouse - it's always been my dream. No, don't think so.
"It just needs a woman's touch," she said.
Max smiled at her, once again amazed by how she just kept going - right through every obstacle.
"Mommy!! Daddy!! Look me spinning!!" Emma screamed. Max and Liz looked at their daughter as she turned round and round over the big surface area. Her long dark hair was whirling around her face as she spun. Emma's parents' hearts swelled at the carefree way she was laughing as she spun until she fell on her bottom from dizziness.
"I want to live here," Emma declared, as she tried to get up again.
"Okay, it's settled then," Liz said, her whole face smiling.

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"Mommy, look! Look!!" Liz felt Emma tug her shirt and she reluctantly tore herself away from what she was watching. Emma was holding a stone in her hand. It was an ordinary rock but it was unusually beautiful and Emma was so enthused with her discovery.
"Oh, that's a beautiful rock, Em," Liz said. "Where did you find it?"
Emma pointed towards some shrubs growing outside the warehouse.
"There!" she said.
"That's really nice. Why don't you take it into our room - it would look nicely there."
Emma nodded enthusiastically and quickly disappeared inside the warehouse.
Liz turned her eyes back to what she had been watching before her daughter's interruption. Max, Kira and some of Kira's men were unloading a double bed from the truck they had rented. It was a really hot day, and Max had been forced to take off his shirt. His upper body glistered with sweat in the sun, his firm and taut muscles rippling and moving under his skin as he, Kira and the other two men carried the bed towards the warehouse. Now that was something Liz could watch all day. As they came closer to the door with the bed, where Liz was standing watching them - or Max more correctly - Max smiled at Liz's smiling face.
"What are you smiling about?" he asked.

"Oh, nothing," Liz said innocently and moistened her lips with her tongue. Something Max certainly noticed. The world seemed to go into slow-motion as he saw Liz tongue dart out between her lips and move over her lips. He shook himself out of it before he totally lost control.
"Maybe you should instruct us where to put this?" Max said to Liz.
"Uh huh," Liz said quickly and moved past Kira and Max, moving into the warehouse. Max's eyes darkened as he watched her sway her hips from side to side as she walked in front of them. He felt the blood heating up in his veins, and it was not due to the temperature created by the sun. Max was so focused on Liz's movements that he didn't see the rock that Emma had placed on the ground, when she had forgotten about taking it into the room. Max stumbled forward, almost bringing the bed along with him. The man walking beside Max almost stumbled over the stone as well – and the whole bed wavered in the air. Kira saved Max from complete humiliation by creating a force field with his powers that caught the bed before it could hit the ground. Liz turned around as she heard the commotion and saw the bed hover in the air.
"Wow!" she heard Emma exclaim behind her, and then Emma was running towards the bed. "Can I ride on dat? Pwease, purty pwease!!" she begged, bouncing up and down - her arms stretched up over her head towards the floating bed.

Liz couldn't help but laugh at Max spread out on the floor on his stomach, Kira's men trying to help Kira with the bed.
"What are you doing?" she laughed.
Max looked up at her, his ears red. He was just about to rise from his uncomfortable position as Liz put her soft hand on his naked arm. He froze, feeling the familiar electricity surge through him, with a mixture of deep desire for her.
It had only been natural for Liz to give Max a hand to help him up, she had not counted on the effect it would have on her body to touch him. Max took a deep breath and while trying to act like nothing had happened he slowly rose - his eyes fixed on a very interesting spot on the ground - and brushed off his pants.
"Are you okay?" Liz asked, and he looked up to meet her eyes. Her eyes had some of the laughter left in them, but they mostly reflected what he felt.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm just clumsy," Max said, smiling.
Liz smiled too, nodding and pointed towards Emma who was now sitting on the hovering bed, Kira standing beside it looking a bit tired by using his energy so much. After all, a double bed was pretty strenuous to lift on your own - using only your mind. Kira's men were standing beside the bed, waiting for instructions from Kira on what to do. He had just told them that they could wait to help him out, since Emma obviously found it exciting with a hovering bed.
"You've managed to make Emma happy anyway," Liz said.
"Then it was certainly worth it," Max said.

Liz gave him a warm smile and felt herself drowning in those deep amber eyes of his.
"Uhm...maybe you should...uhm...help Kira," Liz managed to say. She wanted nothing less than Max forgetting everything about Kira and the bed and instead take her in his arms and kiss her senseless, but that wouldn't really be the sensible thing to do.
"Yeah, I probably should," Max agreed, not making any movement towards fulfilling what he had just said.
"Daddy!! Look how high I can jumb!!" Emma cried, giggling.
Liz and Max tore their eyes away from each other and Max quickly moved towards the bed. It looked pretty dangerous as a four-year-old jumped on a bed levitating one meter above ground.
"Emma, don't jump so high," Liz said.
"But it's funny, mommy!" Emma said, and as if to prove it she jumped even higher.
Liz shook her head at the absurdity of the situation. As other kids in her age were having the best time of their lives on a swinging set, her daughter was bouncing up and down on a double bed that was floating in the air - and she didn't even think it was weird.
"C'mere, Em," Max said and lifted Emma off the bed. "Kira is tired. It's difficult for him to make the bed fly in the air."

Emma calmed down in Max's arms. He sort of had that effect on people.
"Kira, you can put down the bed now," Max said, and with a grateful sigh Kira lowered the bed to the ground - his energy almost completely depleted.
"Sorry, Kwia," Emma said, releasing herself from Max's arms and instead wrapping her small arms as far as they could go around Kira.
Kira eyes opened wide in surprise as he felt the small body in his arms. In that instant he made a promise to himself, with his heart and not due to a duty, that he was going to protect this little bundle of energy to his last breath.

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"That bitch is back," Tess said.
"Please talk so that I can understand you," Nasedo said tiredly. "There are many bitches out there."
"Liz Parker."
Nasedo shot up from his chair so violently that he caused the chair to fall backwards.
"Have you seen her?" he demanded, his voice tight.
Tess nodded, with a smug on her face.
"I've seen her and her child," she said.
Nasedo slammed his fist in the table.
"Damnit! Then the rumors were true!"
The smug was instantly wiped off her face, as Tess realized that she hadn't come with such a big sensation as she had anticipated.
"What rumors?" she asked.
"That there's an heir to Max," Nasedo said.

"But...but..it can't be Max's," Tess said. "She wasn't pregnant when we kidnapped her, and if she had slept with Max I would have heard about it. They would have said something about it. No one ever hinted anything about that. No, it has to be someone else's baby."
"No, it's Max's all right," Nasedo said. "The question here is. How could he found her so easily, when we have searched for her for years?"
Tess remained quiet, pouting over the fact that Max had slept with that bitch - and not with her!
"Do you realize that this destroys the whole plan," Nasedo said. "I have to cut a new deal in order to get home...but there isn't any other way than using the Granolith!"
"I want Max! I was suppose to bear the heir to the throne!" Tess whined.
"Get over yourself, Tess!!" Nasedo ordered. "As your mindwarping doesn't work on him, you have no chance with him!"

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"I want home," Emma sobbed. Max looked helplessly at Liz as she walked into the room.
"What's wrong, pumpkin?" she asked.
"I miss my room," Emma said.
"I thought you liked it here, honey," Max said, not quite understanding how the mind of a four-year-old worked.
Emma defiantly shook her head.
"I want my tweddy bea," she said.
"We'll get your teddy bear in the morning," Liz said and stroke Emma's hair. "We have to live here for a while, okay?"
"But I don't want to," Emma said, tears running down her cheeks. Max's heart broke at her tears. He hated to see her cry.
"It'll be more fun in the morning," Liz assured. "And the quicker you go to bed, the quicker the morning will come and you can play again."

Emma thought about this for a while and then nodded.
"But I want my tweddy toborrow," Emma said.
"Of course," Max said.
"You want me to tell you a story?" Liz asked.
Emma nodded.
"Okay," Liz said and sat down on the bed. She felt Max's arms encircle her waist and pull her towards him. She positioned herself between his legs, and Emma lay her head in Liz's lap - ready to hear the story.

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Max woke up in the middle of the night by Liz coughing. The coughs were hollow and dry. They were all sleeping in the same bed, which they had done ever since Max found Liz. There had never been any discussion about sleeping arrangements or anything like that. It had only been natural to find comfort in each others' arms. Max had refused to go back to his dorm and he was to call in sick tomorrow, and instead go to Liz's apartment to get a few things. Liz was laying on her side, her arms around Emma who was tucked in under her chin. Liz's back was nestled against Max's chest and he had his arms securely wrapped around both Liz and Emma.
Max closed his eyes and tried to not listen to Liz's raspy breathing. It was eating him up inside that he wasn't able to heal her completely and the signs of ill-health were rapidly coming back again after having been gone about a day after the healing with the healing stones. But he couldn't block her out. Her coughing and labored breathing was like a knife in his heart. He opened his eyes again and stared into the darkness. There must be something he could do. He moved away from the warmth of Liz's body and then slowly turned her on her back. She groaned a little in her sleep as the warmth of the two bodies that she had been sandwiched between until now was removed and then her raspy coughing filled the silent room.

Max moved his hands to the buttons of her pyjamashirt and slowly unbutton the upper three buttons. He would try to feed her with some of his energy. He knew that when you had a cough you should keep the chest warm, so he figured he could warm her a little. He carefully, in order not to wake her, put his hand under her shirt, on her soft skin. He had to concentrate hard not to react to the feeling of the soft skin of the swell of her breast that was just inches below his palm. He closed his eyes and in the dark room could be seen a bright white light.

TBC...