Summary: Desire. A tale of love, deception and betrayal. Let the Mebony/Ramony battle begin.

Rating: NC-17

Disclaimer: I own nothing, the Tribe and the characters and the property of Cloud 9 and Mr. Thomas.

Chapter Ten

I could not see or feel anything by the time that we got upstairs, all that I knew was that there was no longer any hope that things would be okay, tonight was going to be a fight and I was going to do anything that I could in order to make sure that Mega and I got out alive.

Slowly vision and feelings came back yet I did not know why. I looked up at Ram and saw that he was holding an injection and guessed that he must have injected me. In that second there was no one that I hated more and I tried to pounce on him, but I could not.

None of my body would obey my commands, I was terrified as I realised, that I was completely paralysed and that I was not going to be able to protect myself.

Ram's next words have haunted me ever since, "You are finally at my mercy, like a good wife should be. You know something hunny? I have known what you were thinking since you looked at Mega, I heard you moaning in your sleep on our honey moon. I would have given you anything yet you threw it all back in my face, you deserve everything that you get. Mega is dead now and you are mine, it's your fault that he is dead. Remember that hunny".

I saw him move towards me, I saw his hands on my body and hated it, I ha killed Mega and I could not fight Ram off I stopped breathing.

My lungs ached but I refused to let myself breath, I wanted to die. I felt about ready to explode before darkness over took me.

The next thing that I knew I was lying here, in a hospital bed. I have scratches all over my body and I ache all over. I can move everything from my hips above and if I try very hard I can move my legs but the nurses say that I should just wait for the paralysis to wear off. I say nothing them. I say nothing to anyone all I do is write this now.

I do not know where Ram is or how I got here yet I do know that I have to tell my story; others have to know that love and desire are wrong. They only lead to heart break.

My life before Mega was normal, most of the time I was content not knowing that there was any other way to be. Some nights when Ram lot his temper darkness would seize me but I would gladly go back to that way of life in order that I might have spared Mega's life.

Everything that I felt in my time with Mega is all that I cling to wishing that there was something that I could do in order to bring him back but I know that there is nothing.

I hope that you have learnt from this story what I am trying to tell you, never love as it will enslave you, and so I sign this with the title that I shall forever more use.

Mrs Mega Roberts – loving widow.