Chapter 5
Erik stayed true to his word, he didn't go back to Christine. She waited up every night for him, but he wouldn't come. Shortly after she gave up her hopes that he would come, She found out she was to have another child. Raoul had been completely ecstatic about having another child, he had even stayed home with her when all his 'friends' when out on their usual excursions. His happiness ended quickly when he first saw the child's brilliant golden eyes. His body filled with fear, then rage. In all his life, Raoul had only seen one person with golden eyes, that monster that tried to steal his wife from her.
"Damn whore!" He screamed at his wife, who laid on their bed, completely exhausted, the child laying in the crook of her arm. "You've been sleeping around with that...that... Erik thing!" She clutched the child closer to her chest, as she tried to hold back tears, but was unsuccessful.
"Raoul, please." She cried out, "He's gone. Erik's gone. He is dead. Oh Raoul, he died, before I found out. He couldn't handle the fact that I wanted to stay with you." To the best of her knowledge, most of that was true. She believed him dead. She had gone down to him, to beg him to come back, just to find the place wrecked, and deserted. She had collected up the pieces of his mask, and the ring, and brought them back to her home. They were safely hidden away from her husband in the back of the bottom of her writing desk.
"Dead?" His voice was shaky, yet excited.
"yes dead."
