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Betrayal-

Shannon's POV-

"So what shall it be, Mac and Cheese or Mashed Potatoes?" I ask Braydin as I look at my pretty empty refrigerator for something to eat. "Screw it I can't cook, so pizza is on the menu for tonight."

"Shannon, have I ever told you how much you rock?" Braydin says.

"Not lately, but why not boost my ego." I say with a smile, picking up the phone to order a pizza.

"Can we invite Delilah to come over? I haven't seen her in a couple days." Braydin asks, I cringe when I hear the question, Dani and I haven't spoken since the incident in my room and I've been avoiding her since I saw her in that boutique. It made things to official to me when I saw her in that wedding dress, I realized that she made her choice, and as much as I didn't agree with it, I needed to accept it and move on.

"Sure little man. Go call her up."

End of Shannon's POV

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"I really don't want to do this." I reply as Anthony and I walk towards his lawyer's office. He offers no reply as we walk down the long corridor. "Anthony, please I promised her I would take care of him. He's not a bad kid."

"Get over it we need to do this. This is not our child, he has a father and your Aunt knows where he is at." Anthony snaps back at me.

"Obviously he didn't want him." I mumble to myself, Anthony upon hearing this gives me a look which I didn't dare defy and opens the door of the office.

"Anthony. Daniel. How good to see you!" The man on the other side of the desk says upon seeing us. He gets up from his chair and shakes Anthony's hand, and then leans in to give me a kiss on the cheek.

"So did you find him" Anthony responds, getting right to business as usual.

"It took a while, but I managed to track him down." Sam, Anthony's lawyer, said while sliding the manila folder towards us. I turn away, not wanting to look at the contents inside of it, as Anthony opens the folder. "He doesn't live to far from here, all his contact information is in there."

"Well thank you Sam, this much appreciated in such short notice. We'll contact you when we need some papers drafted up." Anthony says, before he gets up and leaves the office. Walking down to the parking garage my heart breaks into pieces knowing that I'm defying my Aunt's single dying wish, and that was to take care of her only child. I let a single tear fall down my cheek and I quickly wipe it away, I'm not supposed to show any emotion, this is the life I choose, and my punishment is to live eternity in the body of a heartless bitch.

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"I'm really sorry about the way I acted, I wouldn't do it if I knew we didn't have to. But regardless of all that, I still love you." Anthony says kissing my shoulder as we enter our hotel room. I just roll my eyes and shrug myself away from him.

"I know sweetheart." I reply, not even bothering to say I Love You back.

Rolling my eyes once again as Anthony turns me around so that I'm facing him and kisses me. There was no passion in the kiss, it didn't make my knees go weak, or my heart skip a beat. I felt nothing, as he laid me onto the bed and begins to raise his hand up and down my leg. I felt numb as he unbuttons my blue blouse and slacks, and takes them off. Which is something I grew accustomed to when Anthony and I were together, it was as if I was playing a role. The role of the perfect trophy wife, who is gorgeous, smart, fashionable, and puts her husband before herself. I felt almost robotic as Anthony enters me, I let out the occasional moan or gasp for air, just going through the motions of it all, letting my mind wander elsewhere as I wait for Anthony to get his release. And when that time finally comes, he rolls off me and turns the T.V on to Sports Center and I just lay there, numb to it all.

"Daniel!" I hear Anthony scream, snapping me out of my train of thought. "Your phone is ringing off the hook. Didn't you hear it?"

"Uhh no sorry." I say getting up from the bed and looking through my purse to find my phone. I smile when I hear the voice on the other end. "Hello?....Hey munchkin. What's up?...You want me to go where?....I don't know if that's a good idea...Ugh, fine. I'll be there, give me like thirty minutes...Love you too."

"Who was that?" Anthony asks not adverting his eyes from the television.

"Braydin. He wants me to come over." I say picking some clothes and entering the bathroom.

"You're going?"

"Well, yeah. He's my nephew and I haven't seen him in a couple days. I'm the only one he has." I say putting on my purple plaid shirt and jeans.

"Aren't you even going to ask me?"

"Ask you what?" I respond, getting more and more annoyed by the second as I emerge from the bathroom and slip my flip flops on.

"Ask if you can go?" He replies sounding sure of himself.

"HELL NO! I may have been following you by your beckoned call for the last couple days, but I'll be dammed if I let you keep me from seeingmy nephew! It's bad enough you want to ship him to his sorry ass excuse for a father! This is the one thing you cannot control Anthony, I'm not your fucking property!!"
And that's when he snapped, I watched as brown eyes turned dark and he raises his hand to slap me across the face, causing me to fall back against the wall from the impact. "You son of a bitch." I reply still holding my face, I grab my purse and rush out of the room, practically running towards the elevator. When I enter I don't even care about the couple staring at me as I slide down the wall of the elevator and break down in tears, managing to gain enough strength to exit the elevator when it hits the ground floor and I run into the nearest taxi.

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I stood at the door for at least five minutes, not knowing whether I really wanted to go in. Sure Braydin invited me over, but after what just happened, I know there is another reason why I'm standing out here. But it's to late for all of that, I've already hurt to many people with the decision I made and I need to stick with it, upon realizing this I turn around begin to walk away, but I'm stopped when I hear the door open.

Shannon's POV

"So how long where you planning on standing out here?" I ask. Daniel turns around slowly, and I freeze when I see her face. Mascara stained her cheeks from the obvious tears that had fallen from her face. "What happened?" She doesn't reply, just walks up to me and cries into my chest.

"I'm a fucking an idiot. That's what happened." Daniel finally says after a couple minutes.

"What are you talking about?" I ask stepping back a bit and cupping her face in my hand. When I see her face, I knew that answer immediately. "What happened to your face? You have a cut on it."

Daniel looks at me confused before touching her cheek. "Stupid fucking championship ring." She replies lowering her head.

I stiffen up when I hear her response. "I'm going to kill that son of a bitch."

"No! Don't." She whimpers

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't beat the shit out of that bastard right now."

"It's not worth it." She says in a low voice. I stare at Daniel in awe as she answers my question in a nonchalant way. "It's done with."

"Is this the first time?"

"Nope." She says walking past me and into the house, where she takes a seat in the kitchen. "Where's Braydin." Daniel asks quickly trying to change the subject.

"Sleep." I respond. "Why don't you leave him Dani?"

She doesn't answer right away just plays with my keys that were on kitchen counter, doing anything to keep herself distracted. "It's not that easy and don't ask me why, it just is." She finally says.

"Come here."

"Shannon don't."

"Daniel Elizabeth Thompson come here." I say a little bit more sincere this time. I watch as Daniel gets up from her chair and walks towards me, where I wrap my arms around her waist and rest my head on top of hers. "I love you Dani." I feel her stiffen when I tell her this and I back away to look in her eyes. "It's okay, you don't have to say it back." I say leaning into kiss her.