Chapter 10
Lies
The dryness in my throat chokes me awake as my dreams show the horrors of the explosion that just took place 3 days ago. I pant as I remember his mask staring at me as I kneel on the concrete. My skin feels like ice as I recall his voice. His voice echoes in my mind saying it over and over again, "Your child". My heart is racing and my stomach is turning with nausea and panic. I look around to my dark empty room making sure he's not here. My feet react as my stomach lunges. I hear my door burst open as I make it into my bathroom, grasping the porcelain rim. I feel his panic as he nears the bathroom.
"Rae!' he rushes to me. "Are you okay?"
I nod as I combine sobbing and puking into one torturous chore. He doesn't buy it and kneels next to me holding my hair into a ponytail. "Morning sickness doesn't make you throw out fear and panic, Rae."
"How do you know? This is all new" I try to close my eyes and calm down.
"It may be new but this is the 2nd time you've woken up like this. In return the bond shoots it to me, and I wake up worried." he sighed rubbing my upper back.
"I'm sorry, I'm just having nightmares." I relax sitting up from the bowl. I don't even dare to move much farther in fear of getting sick
"What was it about?" he presses.
"The explosion" I gently close the lid hoping to end the chore for the middle of the night.
"It's perfectly normal to have nightmares over that. It was very scary and traumatic. We almost lost them." he motioned towards my flat abdomen.
"Richard." I sighed.
"Yeah?" he tucks a piece of hair behind my ear.
I look up at him in his eyes, "It was Slade.", my voice trembles. His eyes immediately go wide and his nostrils flare, anger consumes him and I suddenly wish I wouldn't have kept it from him. Slowly he rises from the floor, fists clenched.
"You saw him?" he almost snarled.
"Yes." I look nervously at the tile.
"You lied about it." he walks out into the bedroom pacing. "I can't believe this."
"I thought you didn't want me or the baby. Why did it matter if he was after us?"
"Us?" he stops staring at me wide eyed. "You and I or you and.." he trails off answering his own question. His hand grip his head and he screams fuck running to the wall smashing his hand into it hard. "How does he know?" he screamed
"I don't know! I haven't told anyone. I had just found out, myself. Please calm down" I stay distant knowing this won't help.
"What did he say?" he yells.
"I asked what he wanted and he said 'Your child'," I spilled out.
"Fuck, fuck, FUCK!" another hole in my wall. "I'll be back." he leaves in an angry rage.
My head spins as the door stands open and his body is through it and gone. I sink to the floor and stare blankly into the light of the hallway. My head spins and I still feel his anger. I look down at my flat abdomen, "He may be angry but he will keep you safe. Just like me" I sit my head back against the wall and close my eyes. Before I know it, I'm drifting right back to sleep.