Chapter 22

"The baby is healthy." Jacob say looking over the ultrasound. "Yeah. Healthy. Strong heartbeat. Cramps are here and there but it is very stable. I can walk." I say leaning on his car. I thought it would be a good idea to visit him after my doctor's appointment.

"My first child." He say walking in a circle. "Right. I don't want to ruin anything for you and Bella." I mean he's dating her. "So what are you asking?" He ask me. "Not to have her going towards a vampire. I will raise the baby on my own on Kairo Tribe."

"Not gonna work if the baby comes out looking like me." "A low chance. I'm thinking Shawn's face gonna be on him or her. The gender is a mystery. The baby is hiding. Just don't want it to crash and burn after you worked so hard."

"Can't ignore that my son or daughter will be raised in my face, Mia." He say looking me in the face. "Then don't." Sam say walking around the house with Paul following. "Hi, Sam. Hi, Paul." I say in a low voice putting my hands in my back pants pocket. I haven't seen neither one of them eight days since everything was ruined between me and Paul.

I think he went back to Rachel. I'm unsure. I don't keep up with nobody's private life. "Mia, you found someone who can raise Jacob's son?" He ask. "Just wanna make things easy for him and Bella, Sam. No motives under it."

"A strong motive if you're asking him to give up his child, Mia." I shrug. The answer is on Jacob. "I'll have to think about it." He say holding out the ultrasound to me. "I don't see how. You was denying it at first. What makes you wanna think on it?"

"A lot. Move." He say walking pass me to get back under the hood of his car. "Alright." I say running my fingers through my hair. I walk pass the two men when Paul grabs my arm. "Hold on, Paul!" I shout ready to beat his face in.

"What about Rachel?" Jacob asks Sam. "The situation is between both him and Rachel. She's with Michael while Paul wants Mia back." He say. "Oh. I will have to pass cause I'm not throwing myself into that vortex that never should've been created cause you was wrong."

"Everybody know the Alpha was wrong for allowing his cousin to get free passes. Plain wrong." He angrily say slamming the hood of the car down. "I was wrong. I can't back what I did to your sister nor Mia." He say.

"You do not care." I snidely say snatching my arm out of Paul's grip and heading across the front yard to the forest. I'm not going back. Paul needs to learn to stop playing games. "Your child." Sam say. "My life. My choice. My child has nothing to do with anyone." Jacob say with an attitude. Exactly. That's exactly how I am feeling.

I head into the forest and walk all of the way to Marcus's house. I need the walk. I need to clear my mind. It is just so much going on in this world that makes me rethink things especially the guys who I have been dealing with. You get tired of the games. Paul nor Jacob will drag me into their little games.

"Mia is here." Marcus shout opening his back door. "I am here." I say waving while making my way across his yard. "I see. I see a little baby bump." I laugh walking up the porch steps. "It is growing. See." I lift up my shirt and turn to the side. "Very low. Nice." I clap my hands walking in and into the living room.

"Hey." Lincoln say seated on the couch. "Hey. What's going on?" I ask looking at the action movie playing on the TV. "Just watching TV. You and Luis, huh?" I chuckle. Shawn, you devil. "It was an assumption but I never came over here. Just got finish asking Jacob give up his child."

"Why would you ask that?" "Cause I don't want him to lose what he worked hard for when it comes to Bella." "Still his son." Marcus say walking in. "Or his daughter. The gender is not available yet." "And, what if the baby comes out looking like Jacob or someone in his family?" Lincoln ask.

"I have no idea. He worked hard for Bella." "And he knew the risk of having sex with you. We all knew he didn't want the baby with you." He say sitting next to his friend. "He started to ease up." "His love for Bella will come first. He worked hard for her. I doubt he'll want her to run to Edward."

"You think he gonna give up his child?" "I would. I most definitely would." Marcus say turning the TV's volume up. "Shawn never stopped sleeping with Sandra's friend?" I ask crossing my arms. "Melissa?" I raise an eyebrow. "She's not a vampire?" Lincoln ask.

"Nope. Sandra lives in Utah. Her parents transferred here there to live with her grandparents. She go to school there now. He brutally burned her." "Her friend did too." Marcus say looking at his friend. Yes, she did. Shawn should be ashamed of himself.

"Should we tell him?" "Nope." "You can't keep quiet about his imprint being alive and living from him. He think she's a vampire." "And, where is he?" I ask putting my hands on my hips. "With Melissa. Probably. I don't know. How you find out?"

"I've been snooping around in his memories. He never stopped in cheating on his fiancée. He kept on going behind her back and Tristan's back." "You been in mine?" "I ain't gotta look into you to know that you ain't got nothing going on, Marcus. Shawn is the one with the drama. He ran his imprint off by cheating with her good friend!"

"He never should've did it in the first place." Lincoln say. "Well, she wanted him over me and this is exactly what she had got." I say rolling my neck. I'll tell it in Sasha's face too. You should've picked me, Sasha. "We need to go tell Arnold." Marcus say getting up. "Wait." I walk over to the couch. "Sit back down." He sits down.

I sit in the middle of him and Lincoln. "I wanna show you guys what Shawn has been doing. Turn the TV off." He turns the TV off. I put my arms around each one of their shoulders and look at the TV. An image of Shawn and Melissa in her bedroom pops up. Lincoln covers his mouth in shock. "Good job, Coby." Marcus say. Good job indeed.

After our quick movie session about Shawn's cheating, Marcus caught him leaving Melissa's house. He put the hands on his little brother. Me and Lincoln watched. I watched very proud knowing I got his butt back for snitching on me multiple times.

It won't the point but it shaved one half of what could've caused Sandra to leave. I wouldn't even know. It is on the Kairo Pack on how they decided to handle her. In reality, I couldn't stay long. I had to head back home to make sure I collected the mail. Mom and Hector are in Las Vegas for the third time. Those two might as well live there.

Marcus ended up calling me and telling me to pack a few clothes cause he wanted me to spend a couple of nights at his house as a precaution for that stunt I pulled in his house.

I quickly open my eyes feeling my heart speed up. "Sorry. Paul is outside in the backyard." Marcus say standing over me. "Oh my God. I am so tired." I say annoyed. "Well, he's outside. Go see what he wants." He say walking back down the hall.

I groan kicking the blanket off me and sitting up on the couch. I don't want to go see what he wants. I want to go to sleep. I walk across the living room and head into the kitchen. I move the curtain back on the door window to see nobody. Paul steps out of the forest. Oh. There he is.

I unlock the door and leave out. I lift my white cotton nightdress up and cross the damp backyard till I reach Paul. "How can I help you, loser?" I ask staring in his face. He picks me up and tote me into the forest. "Oh. Okay." I softly say smiling.

I guess he wants us to cuddle. I rub my hand across his beautiful bronze skin till he takes me a certain spot in the forest. He places me in front of a tree and back me up till my back hits it. I smile grabbing his hands and wrapping them around my waist.

Once he leans into my neck, the rest is history. I find myself drifting into a loose emotion of tranquility and peace. "Mia, you are peeing on my couch." Marcus growls out. I groan opening my eyes to see him hovering over me. "Where am I?" I ask blinking away tears.

"You're in my house. You need an ambulance?" He ask helping me sit up on the couch. "No, I'm okay." I say looking at the wet stain on my nightgown. "Paul ain't come last night?" I slur out. "No. You slept through the night. If you dreamt it, he might've chang-" "Don't come with that, Lincoln."

"Alright. You wanna take her to the hospital?" He ask walking over. "I'm okay. I peed on your couch." I am so embarrassed. I have never peed on myself. "It's okay. You're pregnant. Your bladder will be loose. Let's take you to the hospital to be sure." Marcus say helping me stand up.

"Can I use the bathroom first?" I ask. "Yeah." He helps me into the bathroom where I uses it. I change my clothes and feel so freaking horrible that I peed on myself but I feel as though I have not gotten any type of sleep. So when he puts me in his car, I fall asleep.

"She would've mis...she's up, Dad. I'll call you later." I hear Jacob say in the distance. I groan opening my heavy eyelids to see that I'm in a room in the ER. "You okay? You want me to call a doctor?" He ask concerned. I slowly shake my head.

"He's not going to make it." I sadly say looking elsewhere. I can't bring myself to look at him. "He is. Just gotta realize that you're not superwoman no more. You got high blood pressure. You're not taking your prenatal vitamins. Your iron levels are too high. The doctor was questioning Marcus about cancer in the family."

"Breast Cancer on his mom's side. The aunt had passed from it." "I heard." "Makes you not want to have kids especially girls. Just horrible to think that I might have cancer in the future. It'll be there if I stop being so super. That might kill me."

"I'm sure that won't happen." "Just a strong thought. My biology is horrible." "Not that horrible. You're thinking negative." Maybe or maybe not, I don't think I want to live this type of life. "He's healthy. He's strong." "Kenta." I say finally looking at him.

"Gotta be his nickname. He can't have more of your nationality than mine." "I said Kenta. What you ge-" "Kenya. Africa. African American." "Well, he will be." "Like 25%." He say back. "Let's not fight." Marcus say opening the curtain. "Not fighting. Just disagreeing about the name."

"I hear." He say walking in and closing the door. "How's the couch?" "Being cleaned. It does smells like iron. You're not taking care of yourself." He say shaking his head. "She's superwoman." Jacob say. "Not no more. You'll have to start taking your prenatal vitamins. You have to eat right. You gotta exercise. Be an expectant mother. I know you wanna birth him out alive."

"Kind of harsh." "The truth. I want my nephew alive. Shawn does. Jacob wants his son alive." "Alright." I tell them. "What?" Jacob asks. "I'll be healthy. I'll think of Jerimiah." I say pulling the blanket over my chest.

"Is that the name you're going for?" "Yeah. You like Coby?" "I don't like Coby cause I did not name him. His uncles did." "The same way that I feel. Coby might actually be a junior but we should surprise everybody with an exact name."

"The baby shower. Is your sister gonna throw it?" I laugh. That is funny. I don't think Jade will after all that she has been going through. "Alright." He casually say looking at Marcus. "The doctor should be on his way." "Good. I'm ready to leave." I say resting my hands on my stomach. "Not till you get your blood pressure down."

I was released from the hospital three days later. I came home hopen to relax. The cramps was killing. I took off my jacket. I laid it on the couch then I happened to see a note on the coffee table telling me that Mom was going to be away for a few days. Mom don't leave notes and it damn won't her handwritten so I called Jade.

Her and Dave came over. She seen the same thing I seen. The note was funky. Hector was possibly planning or probably already hurt mom. Through the pain of the cramps, I went to the police station with the couple. We talked to a detective about the issue.

"How old is your mother?" Detective Jenkins ask writing on his notepad. "She's 39 years old." Jade answers. "How is her relationship with Hector?" "Abusive." "She's the type of female who put the men before the kids. We lived it through childhood. She strongly believes in holding onto a man. She's that type."

"I agree." Jade say. "I mean we smile but our childhoods was horrible due to her boyfriends. This one take the cake for aiming it at her." "I agree again." She say. "So do you think she is deceased?" He ask us. "Yeah. It is that type of relationship but love sees through the abuse. So let's see some pictures of bodies or something." I tiredly say crossing my arms.

"She feels that way but I want to report my mother missing." She say in a tone. "We can file a missing person's report. When was the last time anyone spoke to her?" "I spoke to her yesterday." She say. "Five days for me. We're on the off cause I'm pregnant teenager. She did tell us that she was pregnant though."

"She told us last week. She was excited. She wants a boy." "Alright. I will file a missing person's report. Try to locate her." "All we are asking." She say. All we are asking.