Soulless

'What is wrong with me?' I asked myself as I watched Naveen pace the wooden floor

His expression filled with hurt, confusion, and anger. I should have told him what was happening sooner. Now I was feeling guilty. I place my hands on my cheeks and kept my eyes on the light blue blanket that was on my bed that lay as a wrinkled mess on my bed.

"Tiana."

I snapped out of my thoughts and turned to Naveen, who was sitting on the bed next to me. He carefully placed his arm on my shoulder, slowing pulling me into his chest. I never realized that my body was so cold as I felt his warmth heat me up. He said something softly in Maldonian, then whispered in my ear,

"Tiana, I am your husband and I'm here to protect you." I felt his fingers running up and down against my back, "I promised you, for better or for worst."

I buried my face into his head, listening to his heartbeat. It sounded like music to me…

'This is the last time you will here it.'

My body shot up and I looked about the room with fear. Naveen seemed as if he didn't notice anything. I closed my eyes and buried my face in his chest again. There was no way I'm going to let him tear me away from Naveen or my sanity. But then I heard the voice chuckle, then all a sudden I felt a hand wrap around my neck.

'I'm done playing these little games!'

"NO!" I screamed

The hands tighten around my neck, my head suddenly felt light.

'It's time to witness my grand entrance!'

A stabbing pain filled body. The tears were blinding my vision, what was happening to me!

'Let's see the true games begin!'

My eyes rolled to the back of my head and my brain went blank.

'Be happy. Mother to be.'

Naveen's Pov

I placed my hands on my head as I sat next to Tiana's mother Eudora. Her brown eyes were puffed up and her wrinkled hands shook. The feeling of guilt weighed me down. Tiana, my Tiana was in a hospital, bearing scars that I didn't even know was there. The sad part was that this was the only one that would treat her. It pissed me off but my anger subsided knowing she was here partly because of me. I couldn't protect her. I couldn't keep my promise. Eudora said it wasn't my fault but I could tell that on the inside that she was blaming me too. A woman with sun kissed skin wearing a nurse's outfit walked towards us with a clip board in hand. Her hazel eyes looking me up and down but I didn't feel like getting hit on today.

"I'm nurse Madea Johnson and I'm here to tell you of your wife's condition."

"Is she okay?" I jumped from my seat with pleading eyes

She placed a hand up, "Let me finish first. I want to say that the wounds that were found on her body are self inflicted."

"My baby wouldn't do that to herself!" shouted Eudora, "How can you even tell?"

Madea shook her head, "We've seen plenty of cases were pregnant women…."

Eudora gave her an confused look, "My baby girl is pregnant?"

"Yeah."

Eudora turned and glared at me, "Why didn't you tell me!"

I placed my hands up in defense, "I didn't even know."

Her eyes fell to the floor and asked in a soft voice,

"Will she be okay?"

Madea nodded, "But were not sure about the baby."

"Okay. Can I go see her?"

"Yeah, but only one visitor per patient."

Eudora looked at me and I nodded, telling her to go first. When she left I sat in my seat and thought about the night I saw that writing. I kept replaying it in my head, at first when I saw it I thought I was crazy but now I think about it I knew that it was connected to something. Tiana was seeing the Shadow man and he was supposed to be dead. Is he trying to possess her or try to kill the unborn child that was inside her now? There were many questions and little answers. For something like this I was really going to need help.

'We need to see Mama Odie.'

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