Touga sighed and dropped down onto the couch. "Darling, I don't know how to say this." He sighed. Shizuka stood across the coffee table, her arms crossed and her blue eyes turned to steel.
"Tell me what? That you have a pregnant mistress," his head shot up in surprise, "oh, I've known since we had her here for dinner two moths ago. Truly you have lost your nose if you couldn't smell it on her." She kept her voice icy but never did she yell. As far as Touga was concerned that only made it worse.
"It has given me time," she continued, "to make suitable arrangements. No one will figure out about your infidelity, I won't let my mate, as wretched as he may be, have his name brought down. You better pray that it isn't some hideous creature Toga. A demoness wouldn't have been so bad, but a human? What the hell were you thinking? Don't give me any shit about connections or love, why the hell did you not use protection? You just can't seem to forget those long-gone high schools days where you had mummy and daddy as well as a fleet of household staff, agents and lawyers all ready to help. It's the real world now and it only takes five thousand to get a secret from someone you trust." Her voice rose with every line, until she trembled.
"What did I do wrong?" tears lightly fell down her face and Shizuka fled the room. Touga leaned back into the plush suede couch, he really couldn't answer her and maybe she was right.
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She kissed her son goodbye, not that she was planning to leave but she planned on taking a walk and Sesshomaru looked like some sort of angel, sliver hair hung gently around his small face. She pushed it out of his eyes and headed to the window in his room. Though she had just berated her husband for it, she jumped through the square hole and landed in the back garden. A short walk brought her to the front yard. Shizuka slipped down the driveway and towards the city in utter silence, she never noticed the figures that melted into the bushes and shadows, which now followed her.
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Someone was following her; she felt the hair on the back of her neck rise. She sped up and headed down a nearby alley, her pulse filled her ears in the darkness. A sound, a bang, pierced the silence. She knew too late it was a gunshot. Burning pain exploded through her right side. Her body fell and four people approached.
Moonlight graced the face of the gunner.
"You, why are you doing this?" She gasped, her blood slowly pooled from the wound.
"Because, you are in the way, because you treat him like shit, because you are a bitch and you will never make him happy."
"Well, then, tell him I'm sorry." Shizuka tore her locket off and glanced at the picture of her son. "Tell Sesshomaru, I love him and to slit your impertinent throat."
Arm raised, gun cocked, aim, she watched as the black beast was pointed at her head. Goodnight was the last thing she heard before the explosion and then……………….