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BTW just wanted to apologize for the major lack of updates before the last chapter….I was on my senior trip! YAY!!!! We did residential for three weeks and I had seriously limited internet use but I promise that I can update more often in the holidays.
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And major thanks to iwant2believe13 for encouraging the sexytime!!! the next chapter after this is M rated, I repeat….M rated!!!!!!!!
Melinda sat down on a park bench and sighed, allowing her tears to fall freely. After storming out of the house she had decided to drive to Grandview Park and take a walk in an attempt to clear her head.- How could Jim do this? How could he know that one of my best friends was leaving and not even tell me, his wife! I know he hated Rick but that was just cruel. Even worse….how could Rick just leave? I know it's been hard for him but surely running away won't help anything. To top it all off….I'm having a baby, I can't believe it. I know I should be excited but….God! What the hell is wrong with me?- she thought dejectedly, placing her head in her hands and sobbing.
Marcus Brent walked slowly behind a line of trees, his eyes following a pair of toddlers who were laughing and playing around on the green. –We could have had it all Melinda- he thought angrily. He had just hung up from a phone call with Mercy General Hospital, he pretended to be Jim and tricked a nurse into telling him how Melinda was doing. What he didn't expect was for her to reveal that Melinda was pregnant – "the baby really should be fine as long as your wife gets her rest" the nurse had said-Marcus had been shocked, after trashing his apartment in a jealous rage, he decided to take a walk around the Grandview park. He sat on a bench and scanned the park with his eyes; a mother pushing a stroller and smiling lovingly at the baby inside, a mother and father taking turns pushing a little girl on a swing, a woman sitting on another bench with her head in her hands- I wonder why she's sad…fight with the boyfriend, break up from her best friend, grandma got sick- he thought. He watched as the woman raised her head and gasped as he realised who it was……Melinda.
-That BITCH!!!! That unfaithful, lying BITCH!!!!- Marcus was furious, he had decided after he made the phone call that he was going to take her away. He needed to get rid of the baby before it was too late. He got up slowly and made his way over to her, she had her elbows resting on her knees and her head resting in her hands, he sat down next to her and held her wrist gently. Melinda jumped as she felt him touch her and then shot up off of the bench when she saw who it was "what are you doing here? What do you want?" she asked, crying harder. Marcus grabbed her wrist forcefully and pulled her down so she was sitting next to him and kept his fingers digging painfully into her soft skin. "It's not nice to keep secrets Melinda" he said menacingly "I thought you loved me, how could you do this to me…to us? I know about your baby. I won't let you have it Melinda I swear to god I won't let you have it. I will meet you at your store at lunch time tomorrow and-"
"NO! No I won't let you hurt my baby, or Jim. You're crazy Marcus, a lunatic….you need help! I'm going to tell Jim everything, then we're gonna call the police and get you put away. You're SICK!" Melinda yelled, pulling her wrist from his iron grasp with a sickening pop she ran through the park, following the path around the edge which led to the car park.
Marcus ran through the line of trees and round the back to the car park….a shortcut. He opened up his truck and grabbed a 9mm hand gun from the glove department before locking all his doors and crossing to the other side of the car park where he saw Mel's car. He worked clumsily to pick the lock on Melinda's car door, struggling with a pen knife. He eventually worked it open and climbed inside, locking it behind him he ducked down behind the drivers' seat, where it would be impossible to see him unless she knew what to look for. He stroked the gun in his pocket and waited.
Melinda sprinted to the car park as fast as she could, wincing in pain when she tried to use her hand to pull her keys out of her purse. She managed to unlock the car door with her left hand and climb inside, locking the door behind her and breathing a sigh of relief. She started the car with some difficulty, whimpering as she tried to move her wrist, and sped out onto the main road. It wasn't long before she was frantically pulling into the driveway and clambering out of the car, she unlocked the front door, slammed it shut and bolted and chained it behind her.
Jim ran in from the kitchen with the phone to his ear and his jacket and one shoe on "It's her, thanks Freddy I'll call you later…..bye". "Oh Mel" he breathed pulling her into a warm embrace, "I was so worried, I was just about to come look for you and I asked the guys at the station to check around town when they got the chance. I'm so glad you're okay baby. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry I should have told you" he said, his eyes welling up with tears of relief. "Jim, I'm in trouble" she whimpered looking down at her wrist which had now turned a vibrant shade of purple "Jesus Melinda what happened?" Jim asked, concerned. Melinda felt ashamed to admit that she had been hiding the truth from him, but it was now too dangerous for her to keep to herself.
"It doesn't matter, Jim I need to tell you something. Please don't freak out on me yet okay. You can get mad after….just hear me out. When we went to the cabin I started being haunted by a young woman, Alice. She had been the victim of a stalker, who sought out women with the same gift as her…..the same gift as me. He threatened and manipulated her into leaving her husband, he beat and abused her for months before he realised that she was pregnant….and not with his child. She was pregnant before he abducted her….when he found out he beat her to death and murdered her husband. After she died she couldn't cross over because she needed to warn the women that he chose as future victims. She tried to warn this girl Olivia, but she wouldn't listen…Marcus killed her too, she….she was sixteen years old." Melinda let out an involuntary sob at the thought.
"Melinda what are you saying? Why is she haunting you?" Jim asked. Melinda trembled at the memory "when we went into the woods and got separated, some guy came out of the woods and started threatening me…at first I thought he was just some random nut job but he knew everything about us….He told me he'd kill you if I told. I started having these horrific visions of things he did to Alice and things he was going to do to me...I'm so sorry…I was stupid I should have just said something….-"
"Melinda, when I found you that day....you were crying and your hand….your hand..-" Jim choked on his words, not wanting to believe that somebody could have hurt his beautiful Melinda right under his nose. To his dismay she nodded her head "He wouldn't let go of me so I tried to scream out for you and then I ran but he grabbed my hand and held it so tight…I couldn't move....Jim, it hurt so bad. I'm sorry I should have told you, but I was so scared that he'd hurt you….I rather let him hurt me." She whispered. Rage overtook Jim and he swung his fist into the mirror on the wall behind Melinda "DAMN IT! DAMN IT MELINDA!" he yelled, grabbing her by the shoulders he continued in a quieter voice "Melinda, I would rather die a thousand times than have one hair on your head put out of place, let alone your hand broken! It's my job to protect you, even if that means using myself as a shield sometimes." A tear ran down Melinda's cheek at the sincerity "The day I collapsed…I had one of my most violent visions ever and I blacked out. Today I was walking in the park and he followed me….he knew I was pregnant and he threatened to do to me what he did to her…to get rid of the baby. When he found out she was pregnant he beat her so bad that she lost the baby's life and her own. I'm so scared Jim and I'm sorry that I didn't tell you but I was so scared that he would hurt you if I did…I still am-" and that was the moment that Melinda broke down.
The weeks of lies and fear had finally caught up with her, her knees gave way and she was caught by Jims' strong arms. "Melinda I…I am so sorry, I knew that there was something wrong with you but I was too afraid to ask what it was….I wasn't sure that I wanted to know the answer…I thought that maybe you felt differently about the pregnancy than I do. I'll never let you be hurt okay Look at me…Look at me Melinda." He said with love and ferocity in his voice, he held her face between his hands. I swear to God, I WILL protect you." He said and kissed the top of her head. "Never forget that Melinda…..I WILL protect you."
Marcus quietly climbed out of the car and made his way around to the back of the house, where he could see a sobbing Jim holding a fragile-looking, hysterical Melinda.-She's betrayed me! How dare she tell him, it's all her fault…I'll make sure I don't just get her, her husband and her baby will pay for her mistakes!-he thought cruelly, settling down for what he knew would be a long night.