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Chapter 31

The Second Book

Valdith watched her Kai release the unspecified liquid into his wife' body.

"The pastor came earlier today…he said we should contemplate the burial..." Her voice trembled and her grip on the damp napkin she had been crying in tightened. Today had been a hard day for her. Watching the Priest pray a good journey for her master into heaven and then their Pastor sending her off with blessings and goodwill- it was almost like rubbing salt in a fresh deep wound.

She didn't want to even say something like this to him but he needed to know. There was already prepping for her Lady Annabelle`s estates to be handled and shared amongst her remaining family and worse…a day set for the measurements to be taken to build her coffin.

"You make it sound as if she's dead."

"If you take her off these machines…she is."

The bedroom had literally been reduced to a testing lab where there was nothing more than tables with syringes, pipettes, beakers and test tube racks. He rose up going over to the bunsen burner as he poured a little of the filling in the petri dish watching it steam before returning to his microscopes. He checked the readings, speculated the results and took everything down in his notebook. A thick leather paperback book that he carried with him everywhere.

"I don't want to go against your belief Sir Teressi; I have my own religious beliefs as well. A belief in a living God and not one of science. She is in pain…she is in a lot of pain. Drawing it out like this is probably more painful than you think it is-"

"Are you telling me to let her die because it would be easier for her…and easier for you?"

She blinked a few times holding back her shock. After all the years she had served the family, served her Master and served him, how could he even question her concern…her sympathy- her love? However, he couldn't be more accurate. She watched the time pass as her master fell in 'deep' sleep for months, what seemed like waiting became a cycle of her well-being being eaten away by immense grief. "Y-Yes. That...that is what I want you to do. You believe that you can save her, and I have believed this with you for so long and I have tried so hard. However, Sir Teressi, she is like a daughter to me and to watch her fall to a level so low where she doesn't move- she doesn't speak- she does absolutely nothing- she doesn't…even…breathe. This machine…this…'thing'- if you take her off it she will become nothing but a corpse- death itself is looming over her but you won't let her go. I cannot watch her be tugged between us and God himself anymore- we are holding her back, you-Sir Teressi, are holding her back. It is time for you to let her go. J-Ju-Just let her go." She fell to her feet gripping the hem of her skirt and cried. The grief and sorrow were far too unbearable for her. "J-Just let her go…she is already dead. Let me bury my master!"

Kai paused slowly rising from the microscope as he turned to her. "Get out."

She looked at him in disbelief.

From deep in her heart, she felt a new emotion, one she hadn't felt in years…Rage. She looked at him shocked until finally, she saw it.

"Come to your senses." She said standing to her feet as she looked at him. "Kai Teressi, I've finally realized it- it must be true- you have gone mad."

He didn't even budge instead he stood firm on his order. He wanted her to leave. "Mad, crazy, obsessed-call it what you want! I won't bury my wife. Not when I have hope."

She looked at him as her eyes softened. What was she saying? How did she even let the anger get the best of her?

She was surrounded by so much doubt and rumors and plagued heavily with depression and sadness that she lost her temper. Sir Teressi was madly in love with Lady Annabelle who was suffering from a deadly disease. Knowing she was going to die he married her; he loved her and tried to save her. He gave her happiness that she knew deep inside had made Lady Annabelle the happiest woman in this world. For someone whose days were counted, he made every single one lasting and memorable.

"I won't give up on my wife…" he mumbled as he walked back to around the table running his tests."I won't give up on her."

More days passed and he watched his wife closely. Maids were starting to leave the estates as he was only left with a small hand count of loyal servants including Valdith. Some days he stayed locked in the room watching her, some days her condition slowly improved while on others she would have an active pulse then suddenly it would fade completely. Eventually, she stabilized to a state where she seemed to be in eternal sleep. He wasn't sure if it was working but he was positive that he wasn't going to give up.

Later on that Month

"He's so supportive. It's like- we don't even need to constrain him anymore."

Kai looked at his friend who was speaking, Victor, and then slowly looked away to the decaying roses at the window as he drank the coffee.

"Kai…what exactly was in that deal you made with him? I know he decided to help you with Anna but what did you promise him? It's like he doesn't even care anymore and if I'm supposed to be accurate…he doesn't even fear us. I feel like he's just co-operating and waiting. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing."

"I told him I would give him freedom. Send him back to Japan."

The chair pushed back and Kai looked up to his friend who looked like he gave him the worst news possible. "Are you mad?!" The tea had spilled across the coffee table when he had stood up appalled. Now the liquid slowly journeyed across the mahogany and dripped unto the cream carpet making an awful stain. Kai was so intrigued as he watched the material slowly changing color under the effect of the coffee as he subconsciously compared it with his studies. If only cancer was like this if only cancer could be accessed if only it wasn't so stubborn and would accept change to become better. Instead, it destroyed and trampled everything in its path eating everything away like the poison it was. Lately, he was like this, everything was science, everything was cancer, everything was...Anna.

His dying Anna.

"We have him for a full year how can you send him back! You're on a higher level than me…you basically have the authority, but this is a grave conflict of interest. This research will provide our facilities with international sponsors to grow us significantly! I know she is your wife and you love her to death but you cannot throw your work aside because of your greed."

"You're calling the love I have for my wife greed?"

Victor paused looking at him. Kai looked infuriated by what he said but he wasn't going to take it back. It was greed. How far was Kai going to go just to save his wife?

"She is nearly dead."

"S-S-S-SIR TERESSI!" The maid ran down the stairs holding her dress as she tried to catch her breath in a desperate effort. She looked like she had seen a ghost and sprinted through heaven and earth from it.

"What is the meaning of such outburst?!" Valdith cursed aloud coming from the next room covered in flour from preparing tonight's dinner.

"It-It's L-Lady Annabelle, I was changing the curtains when…w-w-when she woke up!"

Kai nearly pushed the maid as he ran up the staircase Victor following behind him as Valdith looked at the maiden telling her to quickly take over and keep her mouth shut.

When Kai entered the room, he saw his wife sitting up in the bed looking around.

"A…Annabelle…"

Her head slowly turned to him as she coughed clearing her throat. "K-Kai." She was very hoarse but sound aside- she looked so different. The color of her skin was so rich; it was a majestic 180 from the pale complexion she carried yesterday. He merely glanced her when he checked on her this morning but surely last night she was very pale with the usual thinness of the fat and flesh beneath her skin. Now she looked stronger, healthier… alive.

"OH, MY GOODNESS!" Valdith fell to the ground seeing her master awake and up. Tears streaked down her cheeks as she looked at her in awe and shock. It was really her. She was awake.

"Anna…how do you feel? How is your body?" He moved cautiously walking to her touching her with such tenderness you could see the trembling in his hand. She was alive. She was truly alive.

She shook her head leaning towards him wiping the tears from his cheek as she blushed a lot staring away her cheeks getting red. "I-I feel okay…Just…embarrassed."

He blushed seeing how thinly clothed she was as he reached for the sheets covering her as he pulled her slowly into a hug.

He didn't want to let go. He was never going to let go.

Never again, not ever.

The estate was filled laughter and life as only seven months after everything had suddenly changed the once secluded Scientist and Doctor now led what was the most famous research with his best friend Victor, Hematology: The Pathophysiology of Blood Disorders and The Epidemiology of Cancer. They made ground-breaking achievements to fight against many disease and cellular infections. His wife, on the other hand, was recovering as well growing prosperously in her estate. She ate healthier now and visited outdoor almost every day.

"What's this one?" He asked looking at the painting draped in the sunlight to dry. He watched her place her brushes down and leave her current one as she walked to him leaning against his body and hugging his hand.

"It's something I dreamt about. I dreamt that I was swimming in a vast red sea. It felt amazingly warm and eccentric."

He raised an eyebrow looking at it as he felt her squeeze him and he blushed.

"Aumm…what do you think about the east wing's outdoor garden?" He asked. It was so beautiful due to the gorgeous rectangular gazebo with lattice between the pillars and a glass roof like a greenhouse. The entire built had been overgrown by lovely roses and vines, plus with the blossoming season, the gazebo became an attractive spot just bursting with colors and fragrances. Underneath it was a fountain that drew a bath for eager birds that made daily trips to their gardens and some that took residence. He never fancied these things, but he knew she found beauty in scenes and settings like these. As if the outdoor building was not enough to steal the eye, around it swam vast plants and flowers of different kinds and scent. They graced nicely around the single pavement leading to the structure just luring you in for a journey of nature's finest.

"It's so pretty!" She exclaimed hugging him tighter as he smiled blushing looking down at her clearing his throat. Was she always this warm and soft? Even if she was the one pressing against him. "…Kai…"

"Y-Yes?"

"Am I making you nervous?" She asked looking up at him her eyes staring into his as she slowly reached up and removed his glasses. He blushed even more at her action feeling quite flustered at her removing them on her own. He always felt naked when he had to make such direct contact with her. Worse when she took initiative.

"I'm not, I'm not at all." He lied clearing his throat. His voice was so hoarse he was sure she could tell he was bluffing.

She smiled walking around him hugging him directly as she placed her hand on his chest. "Then…look at me…"

His eyes looked at her staring into hers and he was enraptured almost immediately. Why was her skin so soft…why were her eyes so beautiful? Why even now in the windy weather her hair fluttered so gracefully behind her? Why was she so beautiful…more than she ever was?

Her enthralling beauty had him fatally intoxicated every time he looked too long at her, especially lately. She was always so active moving about, never staying one place. She had no interest in staying in the bedroom where she was trapped in for years. His wife was like a pouncing child running on energy from day to night- even if she was tired she wouldn't give up the opportunity to experience anything.

He held her kissing her forehead as he pulled away to see her slowly open her eyes blushing lightly as her lips curved into a delicious smile.

Slowly she pulled him deeper into the gazebo where it was attached to the house as she pulled him to the outdoor lounging couch laying into it pulling him onto her.

She pressed her lips to his, "Here."

"We are outside."

"Here."

"We are still outside"

"Here"

"Are you not embarrassed?"

"Here"

"…"

He looked at her for a while as she kept a straight face at first and then she started fidgeting until immediately she was reduced to a plump red tomato blushing literal strawberries as the heat rose from her face.

"It-It-It was s-s-oooo less illicit in my…head!" she confessed turning in the couch giving him her back as she began hugging the pillow as she was literally embarrassed of herself. She had to admit outdoor was outrageous, but it was their house and he was her husband and SHE DID TELL THE MAIDS AND ASKED THEM TO STAY AWAY FROM GAZEBO (even though they secretly cheered her on in attempt to reignite the passion that they should have)

"It's okay." He mumbled as he slid his hand under the sleeve and pulled it down exposing her shoulder and kissed it.

She blushed turning around to face him as she released the pillow and gingerly stroked his hair. "…K-Kai..."

He laced his fingers through hers as he carried her hand to his lips softly kissing her knuckles.

"How do you feel…?"

"Hot….and sensitive."

He smiled it wasn't the information he wanted but he did find it amusing. "I meant- how does your body feel…as in…since you awoke."

"You ask me every day…" her voice broke hallway as she pouted.

"I have to ask you every day. Now…do you feel anything different?"

"Yes…"

He froze. She was okay all the way up to now so did something really change? Was it the change in her medication? All he did was reduce the amount of hemoglobin he gave her. The pills were supposed to control her system but could reduce the portion alter her health. He rose up deep in thought furrowing his brow as he thought immensely on what the direct link could be to providing her with less and the reactivity of her blood count.

"W-Wait- is it pain? That could possibly mean clotting which can be related to your liver seeing that there is an increase the RC cells. Or maybe the RBC and WBC have weakened over time. Where are you feeling the pain? Is there any itching involved? Maybe numbness in the joint? Or…muscle? Tissue?"

She shook her head. "It's in my chest." She mumbled as she sat up on her legs looking at him.

"In your chest…" He reached into his pocket for his stethoscope putting it on as he placed it on her chest listening to her heartbeat.

"It's a little fast but-"

"It's the pain you cause me."

He froze looking up to her as he mouthed a few of her words not understanding what she meant.

"I'm confused."

"It's not medical pain…it's emotional. When will you ever hold me as your wife and not your dying wife?"

"…I-But…I don't…I mean…I..."

"I don't want to hear it."

He sighed and put away the stethoscope as he moved closer to her. In this moment he realized how stupid and careless he was and maybe…just maybe… a little overprotective. He hugged her pulling her against his body as he gave her a tight squeeze.

"Anna… you were never my dying wife. You were always my wife, just my amazingly beautiful wife."

"Lies, I was dying…I was-"

"You're here now." He interrupted as he turned her to face him and his eyes got wet with tears. This was really his Annabelle her skin was so soft against his skin and lush and full instead of hugging onto her bone. "Annabelle I never- NEVER want to think back to then, there are more things I want now that to think back to those horrible times."

"Like more time together?" She asked as the tears rolled down her cheek and his heart broke. If he could avoid ever seeing her cry like this, he would throw his life on the line and thousand times to at least let her forget the faintest feeling of pain.

"Yes, every single time we can, as much as possible." He said as it slowly fell to a whisper when the words died on her lips when he kissed her.

The sunset graced the sky and a light afternoon rain drizzled over the gardens of the Teressi Household. Small yet heavy raindrops crashed on the delicate petals of thousands of flowers, bringing with it a quench of life to those with an insatiable desire to survive. Sad flowers destined for curtained death- their days numbered yet beautifully they strive to survive day by day, to live and never to delay. For like them many others live not knowing when their time shall come, yet maybe a lesson should be taken from these photosynthesizers who are better at living strong and dying young.

In this blissful cold afternoon rain falling from a sky of mixed burnt orange, underneath the young lovers entangled sharing a love most treasured between them. It was warm and slow yet met the core deep inside them both as they treasured a sex that felt like heaven and earth.

"How is it?" he asked as he paced back and forth behind the door taking deep breaths in and out. For the first time, he hated doctors never understanding how they could be so….slow?

Volga looked at him smiling as it was a sight to behold. It was two years down the road of Anna`s recovery and on the next side of the door, just moments earlier were her screams of pain but all too soon came another. A smaller one.

A new one.

The door opened and Adalhard came out but before he could speak he was pushed into the wall as Kai ran pass him and entered the room to see Annabelle with the biggest smile on her face.

"K-Kai…It's a girl."

He walked up to her to take in a better view of his daughter who fussed a little before finding comfort as she yawned stretching her body and slowly opened her eyes.

"Oh my god…she….she's adorable."

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