"You came here to talk?" he said, "Let's talk."
"We came back for-," Akio said, stepping forward.
"-She betrayed you," Abby yelled, cutting Akio off, "she betrayed us, she left our base in shambles and is was bad enough that you let her live but you're still fucking with that lying slut!" Abby said in disgust, overcome with anger.
"Yes and I don't care if you like it or how you feel about it and I regret nothing, so just let it go and move on," he said calmly.
"She's the reason Jake turned against you, she's the reason your brother and father are dead, the reason we had to kill our own brothers and sisters-" Darius began but Fitz cut him off.
"-Why did you come here?" Fitz said.
Akio stepped forward. "I came because I needed your help, we needed your help," Akio said.
"Not anymore, he's not one of us anymore, not as long as he's with her, we'll do without him," Abby said angrily.
"Abby, stand down, this is not about your feelings," Akio said curtly. He turned back to Fitz, "like I said, we need your help."
"What help?"
"I want you to come back," Akio said. "I've already spoken with all the appropriate people about getting you back to the base."
"Why would I do that?" Fitz asked.
"Sarkin, do you remember him?" Akio asked.
"Of course," Fitz responded.
"He's escaped prison and he's running amok across Europe, you're the one who took him down, you know him, we need your help." Akio said.
"You want me to come back for one man?" Fitz said.
"No, but I can brief you on everything else, the point is our enemies know you're gone, they don't know me, they don't fear me, you need to come back, we need people to fear us again, you can take the helm and I'll be your second in command again."
"Did you miss the part were my own men tried to kill me?" Fitz said pointedly.
"Yes and they're all gone now, Jake's dead, Mellie, Leroy, Marvin and all the rest are in prison" Huck said, "regardless of how I feel about your relationship with...her...you're the best leader for the base and we want you back."
"Are you guys forgetting what happened on my watch," Fitz said.
Abby smiled, "yes, say his name Fitz, his name is Scott, why can't you say his name? Too ashamed that you're fucking his killer. You betrayed him, your own brother, you never loved him, only yourself, now that I think about it, you and that whore deserve each other-"
"-Abby-" Akio and Anton scolded. "wait outside, since you can't control yourself" Akio said.
"No," she protested, "any woman who makes you harden your heart against your own family just so you can be with her is not the woman you should be with."
"Abby," Akio yelled, "ENOUGH!"
Fitz raised his eyebrows and shrugged, everything Abby said to him, he'd already considered many times before and in the end, he still chose Olivia. He loved Scott but he still chose Olivia. He was indifferent to her tongue lashing and found his mind wandering about where Olivia and Lily had gone. He could track the car on his phone and he planned to do it as soon as they left. Olivia had the tendency to worry too much, he could see it on her face when he asked her to leave and he decided to text her.
He pulled out his phone and wrote quickly: "Stop worrying! I just needed to get you away from them," and then locked his phone.
"You don't even care, do you?" Abby asked, bringing him back to the present.
"Abigail, enough!" Akio scolded again.
She threw her hands up in defeat, "fine."
"So, are you coming back?" Akio asked.
"I can't, I have a family to protect, I can't do that from the bottom of the world."
"By family, do you mean that fucking slu-" before Darius could finish the words, Fitz gripped his throat tightly and squeezed, he didn't want to manhandle Abby so he'd kept his hands to himself and ignored her, Darius on the other hand, he had no qualms about hurting, "I've heard enough, make that be the last motherfucking time…" Darius grabbed Fitz's hand with both his hands to try to get him to let go of his throat but it was useless.
Fitz squeezed and squeezed and squeezed and watched as Darius' eyes began to water. Abby finally stepped back, remembering the type of person Fitz had been and deciding not the push him.
"Do not fuck with me or my family," Fitz said to Darius just before he finally let him go. "Does anyone else have an opinion on my daughter's mother they'd like to share?"
Darius fell to his knees and clawed at his neck. Akio turned to him, "this is exactly why we need you back."
"I can't I'm not leaving my daughter and I'm not leaving Olivia, so I can't help you. I'm sorry."
"You were always a heartless piece of shit," Abby said, finding new courage as she walked out.
Akio turned to them all, "go back to the jet, I'll follow you shortly. Huck, Anton, stay."
They all filed out of the room slowly and once they were all gone, Akio embraced Fitz in a half hug for a brief moment and then let go. Huck and Anton, did the same and then they walked to the glass panel and stopped.
"We need you back," Akio began. "I brought everyone here to remind you of what you've lost. I didn't work the way I planned because I didn't know you were back with her but…"
Fitz chuckled, "you could have called."
"The element of surprise, I thought it would be on my side," Akio responded.
"Why did you come here?" Fitz asked, "have to been listening on my calls. My line is encrypted."
"Yes, so unfortunately we couldn't but you live here, it was late in the night, I expected you to be home, based on our recon," Akio said.
"It wasn't very hard to bypass your security system," Huck said.
"For you, no, anyone else, I would've known."
Akio sighed, "we are broken, dysfunctional...she did that." Akio pausesd.
"Rethink this, bring your daughter, raise her at the base, as she grows older, we'll figure something out," Anton said. "The safest place for her is with you and with us."
"And what? Leave Olivia because I certainly can't bring her, she'd be dead before nightfall, and furthermore a military base buried in an ice desert teeming with professional murderers, (no offense because I am one) is no place for an infant."
"Fitz we can work something out, if you come, I'll have a squad of Deltas on their security detail. Work remotely, just certain missions, give us something. We wouldn't have come if it wasn't important."
Fitz sighed, "I don't trust the deltas with Olivia which is why I never asked for your help, I don't want them involved with anything that has to do with her, especially now that the others have seen her I'm going to need you to keep an extra close eye on them, even more so now, I don't want any of them doing anything stupid."
"I will keep them in line, I have been, why do you think they just found out about her and baby," Akio responded. "Why didn't you tell me you were back with her, I'm not here to lecture you but this is a hard thing for us, when you left, I know you didn't want her hurt because of the child but I didn't know you were going to be with her."
"Come on, I don't wanna talk about this with you, I understand how you guys must feel but it doesn't change anything."
There was awkward silence for a moment.
"Look Akio, you don't have to be a stranger, call me if you need information or advice or whatever but that's about all I can do, my place is with my family."
Akio nodded, "I had to try."
Huck and Anton nodded goodbye and left, Akio was right behind them but stopped when Fitz spoke.
"Akio, you need to make them fear you, do whatever you have to do to make sure they know you're in command now and keep Huck and Anton by your side, you'll need them and one last thing, there's a reason I made it a rule not to wear colognes and perfumes on missions, I smelled someone's perfume in the hall and that's how I knew you were here."
Akio nodded and disappear through the door.
Once Akio was gone, Fitz pulled out his phone. It had been silently vibrating in his pocket non stop. When he checked the screen, he saw that Olivia had called and texted him over 20 times, there was also a missed call from Lucky, who'd been trying to call him for the past few days but everytime Fitz made a mental note to call him back, he forgot.
He ignored the call from Lucky and quickly called Olivia as he walked down the stairs and outside, she picked up on the first ring.
"Fitz, are you alright? I am freaking out!" she said quickly.
"Yes, yes, I'm fine baby, stop worrying, I'm coming to meet you."
He heard her sigh loudly in relief.
"What happened?" she asked.
"I'll tell you all about it when I see you, I'm coming to meet you where you are, it should only take 15 minutes from my house."
"You're tracking the car, of course," she said, shaking her head and smiling.
Olivia hung up and leaned her head back against the headrest and waited for Fitz to meet her. She was still flummoxed that they just showed up and the way they looked at her, made it even worse. She didn't know what she thought would happen after she left but with Fitz's temper, she expected the worse, luckily that wasn't the case.
She was parked beside the state beach, only a 25 minutes drove back to her house.
As she sat waiting in her car, her mind had wandered so far that when Fitz knocked on the car window and jumped like a frightened sheep.
"Livie, it's okay, it's just me baby."
He opened the door with his key and stooped beside her.
"Still alive," he said with a smile so charming it made her blush.
She punched his shoulder lightly, "it's not funny," then she rested her forehead against his, "I was so worried. I never should've left you there, I should've stayed with you."
"Why, no-"
"-No, I'm always running, I'm such a fucking coward."
"You're not, I asked you to leave Olivia, it's not like you saw them and bolted, you did the right thing, you got yourself and our baby out of an unpredictable situation."
Fitz placed a finger under her chin and carried it closer to him and kissed her softly on the lips then he stood and pulled her from the driver's seat. He held her by the hand and spun her around. She let out a squeal when he grabbed her by the waist and pulled her by the against his body.
He danced slowly as he held her close.
"There's no music?" she whispered.
"You don't need music to dance on a night like this," he said lightly.
It was a beautiful clear night, the only audible sound was the crash of waves against the distance shore.
"What did they want?" she asked, as they danced slowly with her head pressed against his chest.
"They wanted me to come back and run the base."
Olivia stopped and looked up at him, Fitz watched her eyes as a range of thoughts passed through them.
"What did you say?" she said nervously.
"I said no, of course, I told them my place was with my family."
She liked the way he said 'family'.
"I don't suppose they were too happy to hear that," she remarked.
"I'm not leaving you and Lily, I made that clear and yes, they weren't happy about that but I don't care."
She rested her head back against his chest.
"How can you be so calm, it just feels as if everything is falling apart around us. I feel as if there are enemies all around us."
"There are enemies all around us, I'm used to it, you're used to it, it just feels different, it feels more...unstable because of Lily."
"I know, it's so different, I feel as if my instincts are off….I don't know...usually at the first sign of trouble I run but I don't want to do with her." She paused, "If Lily and I weren't in the picture, would you go with them?"
"If you and Lily weren't in the picture, I never would have left but my life is different now, I can't be running around the world, cutting throats and taking names, leaving you and Lily unprotected and alone, I want to be there when she starts crawling for the first time, and takes her first steps and says her first words, and plus I'd never forgive myself if something happened to you, this one, they'll have to figure out on their own."
She hugged him, "I'm sorry."
"Olivia, there is nothing to be sorry about, I don't want to go."
She smiled, "you were good at it you know, slitting throats and taking names, you were the best at that."
"I know," he said cockily.
"And you don't think they'll hold a grudge?"
"They will but I can't help that either," he responded.
"Do you trust them?"
"Not with you, no, but I trust Akio, not fully but enough to know that he's not my enemy, he's running the base so I have confidence that he'll keep everyone in check but in the off chance that anyone feels bold enough to come and pay us a visit, it'll be without the full power of the deltas and when that time comes, we'll handle them accordingly."
"Did they give you a hard time about me and Lily?"
"They didn't say anything I haven't thought of already and I still choose you so it doesn't matter, does it?"
Olivia stretched up and kissed him softly.
"This kinda sucks," Fitz said sadly.
"Why, what's wrong?" she asked.
"I was setting you up nicely to take you home and fuck your tits off but now you're in a weird mood so I guess I can't do that anymore…right?"
"No, no, no-" she shook her head from side to side, "you can, who-who said that, who said I was in a weird mood, I never said that. I'm not in a bad mood."
The corners of his mouth turned up into a wide grin.
"Who-who-who," Fitz teased.
Olivia shook her head, laughing at herself.
"Get in the car, and make sure that pussy is dripping by the time we get back to the house."
"I'll do my best," she quipped.
Olivia turned to walk to the other side of the car when Fitz grabbed her by the waist and picked her up and spun her in the air.
"What the fuck do you mean you'll 'do your best'." he said as he spun and then dropped her in the sand on the side of the beach road. "That shit better be WET when we get home or you'll be sleeping by yourself."
She pressed her hands against her cheeks and smiled, he managed to get her mind off the dread of the deltas showing up, she sighed lightly then she stood up in the sand.
"She will be," she said to him, seductively.
"See, that's better," he said with a cocky smile.
She walked to the other side of the car and got in the passenger seat beside him. After they were strapped in, he pulled off down the lonely beach roadway and headed straight back to the freeway, the quickest way to Olivia's house. The guards, spilt up and took both Fitz's car and they followed behind them.
Less than half hour later, Fitz pulled into her driveway. Olivia had been laughing uncontrollably as she tried to disembark the car.
"-fucking Jake, his stupid ass decided to yell in the middle of the dark forest while we're being chased and immediately they start spraying bullets, Jake got shot, first actually, and I'm just as fucking stupid because as soon as he screamed out I died...laughing, this was before I was commander."
Fitz had spent the last 25 minutes, recounting tales of the certain members of the deltas most embarrassing failures in an attempt to put her at ease.
Fitz took Lily from her carseat, Olivia took her purse and Lily's diaper bag and they headed up to her room.
He laid Lily in her bassinet and pulled her pacifier that hung from her mouth. He pulled off her socks and headband and then walked to the bathroom, where Olivia had been, to wash his hands and face. When he walked in, Olivia had already stripped down into her panties, her bra and dress were scattered on the floor at her feet while she still had her heels on.
"Well damn, you didn't even let me catch a breath," he teased as he walked over to the sink and washed his hands then stripped off his jacket as he walked to her.
"Come on, bend over the counter, legs apart, let me check you."
She smiled slyly and walked to the counter and then bent over slightly, poking her ass out. She bit her index finger and smiled as she waited.
Fitz slapped her ass, once he stood behind her. He could see her face in the mirror in front of them.
"Somebody's excited?"
He slapped her ass again and Olivia gasped and smile. Fitz spread her cheeks apart and kissed her square on the ass as he kneeled behind her. He slapped her again, grabbing her ass fully as he kissed it again then he pulled the crotch of her thong from in between her lips.
"Have I told you how much I've missed you," she said as she bit her lips and smiled.
"mhmm," Fitz teased as he widened her stance as little more.
He spread open her lips with his thumb from behind and inspected her. She was wet! But he decided to keep up the charade a little longer, it was fun. They could use some fun.
"You did good work down there," he teased.
Olivia blushed as she felt him planting soft kisses up and down her lips. She closed her eyes and bit her lips.
He stuck his tongue between her lips and licked her up and down. His tongue was lathered with fluid and he swallowed it all, happily.
"haaaaaaaaaaaaa," she whispered breathily.
Fitz tickled her clit with his fingers as he sucked and slurped her. He began sliding fingers into her, first one, then two, then three."
"Fitz!" she yelped.
"Oh please," he said with a satisfied smile, "you love it."
"Yes...I love it...I love you."
He flicked his tongue the pearl of her clit until he felt the smallest gush of water run down his chin and made wet stain on his shirt. She whimpered as she came, holding on the the edge of the counter.
Fitz wiped his chin with the back of his hand then stood up and turned Olivia around.
"Time for a little taste," he whispered.
He propped her up on the counter and held her face right where he wanted and kissed her slowly, meshing their tongues together, sharing her essense and feeling the textures of their soft tongues against each others.
As she kissed him and he kissed her, Olivia slowly began to undo his belt and then she unbuttoned his pants and then dropped them to the floor, along with his boxers. She broke the broke the kiss, just long enough for her to spit on fingers and massage her saliva onto his tip as she join back in the kiss.
She heard him moan, a slow, low, growl as she massaged him slowly. He didn't need the massage, he was already stiff but she wanted to feel his girth in her hand.
She pulled him closer and rub his tip up and down her slit and found herself shuddering at the contact.
Fitz tried to slip himself in eagerly but she broke the and stopped him.
"Not yet," she whispered.
"-No...I can't wait," he said breathlessly.
He pulled her closer and kissed her.
"I don't wanna wait another second…"
She broke the kiss and stood up, puzzling Fitz in the process.
She kicked off her heels. "You can wait another second," she said with a smile. Olivia pulled off his t shirt and ran her hands up and down his torso, she loved feeling the strength and power that always felt pent up behind his rock hard muscles.
She pushed him up against the wall and kneeled in front of him, it was then that he clicked for him and he smiled, maybe he could wait just a little longer to be inside her if it meant feeling her tongue slide up and down his shaft.
Once she was on her knees in front of him, she licked her lips and then she took him into her mouth, just his tip at first because it had been awhile since she'd done it and then slowly, she worked him further and further into her mouth. It took multiple tries until he hit the back of her throat and then she stopped, she couldn't take him any further. She licked him up and down and when she kissed his shaft, she watched him throw his head back in sweet agony. She massaged his balls and sucked them she was worked her hands up and down his wet shaft and then she took him in her mouth again.
"Fuck..Livie..this is….don't stop."
She stopped sucking and slowly and gently jerked him off on her breasts. He had so much cum, that it took awhile for it all to drip out but she didn't mind watching the look of euphoria on his face as he emptied on her.
He let out a heavy breath and then pulled her up from the ground by her wrists and then dipped his arms under her legs and lifted her. She wrapped her arms around his neck.
"I reckon you liked that very much," she teased with a smile.
He smiled right back and kissed her as he entered her slowly. He had her legs thrown over his arms, with his hands pressed against her ass, holding her body against his. He used his arms to carry her up and down his length, he'd talked a good game earlier but now that he was inside her, he wasn't going to last long.
Olivia ran her hands through his hair and grip his curls as she pressed her lips against his, not exactly kissing him, just panting against his lips as he pumped into her, hitting her spot with every stroke.
"Right….there..baby," she panted.
As he continued to pump into her and she felt the pressure build in her lower abdomen, she began to curl her toes, so hard in fact that she thought she might get a cramp in her leg. She came in rupture just before Fitz, feeling the effects of a deep orgasm as she squirted as over Fitz's legs and the ground. Fitz spun around and back her up against the wall and held her in place as he came inside her.
She smiled and laid her head back against the wall as she tried to even her breathing.
Fitz eased out slowly and felt semen run from out of Olivia and drip on his leg, toes and on the white marble tiles on the bathroom floor.
She chuckled and shook her head, "why do you have no much cum inside you." Fitz returned a smile, "I've been saving it for you."
"You're disgusting."
He chuckled. "How about a quick shower?"
"Yes…please," she responded.
He kissed her again and carried her over to the bathtub then let her down. While Fitz turned on the faucet and gauged the water to fill the tub, Olivia walked around the bathroom, picking up the articles of clothing that were scattered all over.
It took a little less than 3 minutes to fill the tub with the water, by then Olivia had thrown all the clothes in the small laundry closet off the wall of the bathroom and cleaned up the spatters of cum and other body fluids from the counters and floor then she joined Fitz in the tub.
She sat on top of him, straddling him. The soapy water had gathered up to her waist.
"So earlier, when we stood in your yard, you said you were considering selling your house?"
He smiled, "yeah, for a while now, at first I was just thinking to get another home for myself but if in a few months, you haven't kicked me out, why don't we considered getting a bigger home for all three of us."
Olivia smiled, "I like that but don't you think this home is big enough, there's plenty of space for all three of us here."
"Yeah but when we have other children, what about them?"
"Woah," she said with a chuckle, "Lily is barely 4 months old, it's gonna be a little while before I take this IUD out."
"I figured you'd say that, when would you consider giving her a sibling?"
"I'd think about getting pregnant again when she turns one, if by then we've taken care of whoever is out there after me. I can't think about having another child when I'm not even certain Lily's safe."
"You know we're never going to have a carefree life, we're never going to be normal, we're never going to not have enemies, not after the lives we've lived, that just apart of who we are and the lives we have to live, we can't get around that."
She sighed, "I know, you're right but. I'd still wait until Lily's at least a year old before I took my IUD out, I got pregnant so quickly last time, I don't imagine I'll have a hard time the next time around."
Fitz smiled, "whatever time works for you, just let me know and I'll be ready to put a baby in you, even if you need more than a year. Lily is enough for me right now, I want to enjoy her growing up."
"As do I." She paused, "when are you going back to work?"
"Tomorrow. I've been thinking about converting one of my conference room into some sort of daycare space or something, whenever you have to go out and take care of something and you can't be home, I'll have Sonia and Lily stay at the office with me."
"I can do the same, I have to look at some spaces for my atelier tomorrow, I'll get something big enough to have a space for Lily so while I'm there, Lily can be there as well. She should be with one of us at all times."
"Good and tomorrow before I leave I'm going to gather all the workers and have a talk with them," Fitz said.
"About…"
"What would happen if any of them were to do what Suzie did."
"Fitz I don't want you to scare them."
"Fear and greed are the only thing that controls people, I prefer fear."
Olivia sighed, "okay, I'm with you just don't be too….you."
"Too…me?" He said with a chuckle.
"You can be very threatening, just with a look on your face," she said with a smile, "just with your presence, and most of them are women, so just be mindful."
"Okay, I will."
She leaned down and kissed him.
"Thank you."
"And I'll be taking the list, I can get my guys to start working on it."
Olivia was silent for a few moments as she thought about something that hadn't left her mind for a couple of days.
"What's bothering you?" He asked.
"I…hmmm," she stopped to think. "the other day, after you came back from dealing with Suzie, we had sex right after."
"So?"
"So, you had just killed someone and we had sex like it was nothing and I don't feel any sort of guilt or…anything."
"Why would you?"
"I don't know, I guess your right," she conceded.
"A couple days ago when you ripped half of Suzie's hair out I wanted to bone you right there and then."
She slapped his arm lightly.
"Stop."
"What? That's not a bad thing, I just think you're really attractive when your fucking somebody up."
She blushed, "I have to admit, I find it attractive when you're...bad."
He could already feel the blood rushing to a certain part of his body.
"Oh...then you would have loved to see me choke the shit outta-" Fitz caught himself and stopped.
"Ah ha, so you did get into it with them, what happened, tell me now."
"How did you do that?"
She smiled, "it wasn't on purpose but now that we've established that you did do something, you have to tell me."
She ran her hands across his chest, working her magic on him.
"Darius said something stupid."
"What did he say?" she asked.
"Not important."
"No, but I'd like to know either way."
Without warning, he wrapped his hands around her waist and eased her up, only to slip his hard cock inside her.
She gasped, surprised.
He pulled her closer and kissed her as he slowly thrusted into her.
Olivia gripped unto the sides of the bathtub and began to meet his thrusts, riding him almost, as he thrusted.
"I'm cumming," she mumbled.
'Already,' Fitz thought, it had hadn't yet been two minutes. Just then, she threw her head back as she came.
"Ugghhhhhhh….." she moaned.
She leaned against his chest and arched her back as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Fitz continued thrusting. He grabbed her ass spreading her cheeks wide, determined to make her cum again before the night ended.
He flipped their positions and got behind her then bent her over the side of the tub and then he reached down and began massaging her clit and he thrusted into her.
She let out a high pitched squeal. Fitz might have laughed at the sound, if he weren't so close to orgasm. She let out several jagged high pitched squeals before they both came.
Fitz held her braced against the tub, still inside her, and didn't let go. Olivia closed her eyes and let feeling of his arms around her, comfort her.
"Are you okay?" he asked after a while, kissing the blade of her shoulder.
Olivia slowly snapped her head up.
"Is the room spinning?" she asked.
"No...you're pussy's spinning."
She rolled her eyes and smiled and then leaned up slowly from the side of the tub and laid against his chest.
"Great as that was, it didn't work, what did Darius say?" she was still slightly panting.
"Jesus christ, how come when you do it, it works but when I do, it doesn't work."
"You're deflecting…"
"Okay fine," he said with a sigh, "I choked Darius because he called you a slut, well actually he didn't even say the whole word, he said 'slu-" and I choked him before he could pronounce the 't'."
Olivia sighed, "Fitz if I had a dollar for everytime someone called me a slut, I'd be richer than I am right now and the last people we need hating us more than they already do are the Deltas."
"Olivia, they respect strength, if I had stood there and listened to them talk down about my family while staring at the ground like a beat dog them guess what? That would empower them, the last thing they need is more power."
"You know them better than I so I suppose…"
Fitz kissed her, "good."
She was quiet for a moment.
"What would have happened if they'd came to kill me? There were 9 of them, just waiting."
Fitz sighed, "I've faced worse odds, if their intention were to hurt you then they could have tried but only after I'd died and taken as many of them with me as I could." He smiled as if it were a joke.
"Fitz, how can he take it so lightly when that could very well have happened today and might happen in the future."
"Olivia, if it comes choosing between my life and yours and Lily's, I know what my choice is going to be, it makes no sense agonizing over it."
She frowned at the thought and leaned into him, giving him a tight hug.
"I pray it never comes to that," she said softly.
She decided not to continue, instead, sat up and turned on the faucet so they could finish bathing and then when they were done they both dried off and headed to the bedroom.
Once in bed, she laid her head on his chest and they both drifted to sleep after a few minutes.
A/N - So I wanted this chapter to be a lot longer but I decided to upload now so that it wouldn't be too much of a break between uploads. As usual, let me know your thoughts, questions, concerns. I reviewed this a few times but it was with tired eyes so I might have missed some typos. Please feel free to bring them to my attention if you find any.
In other news, I've been working on a line of organic bath and body products (bath soaps, shower gels, body milks, body butters and body scrubs) and I'm sad to say that I'll have to take a few weeks break in order to launch the collection (I'm throwing a launch party, yay! So excited!) so it'll take a few weeks for another chapter to come.