I didn’t run from him, the sight of him sitting in dark would impale people. But I didn’t scoot away, not even when he stood from the chair and climbed the bed.
I wasn’t scared, I was relieved to see him.
“How did you find me?” I asked, succeeding to keep the frost in my voice.
He stared at me quietly, the only source of light in the room was the moonlight coming in from the window.
“I told you before. You can’t hide from me” he whispered, as if was someone behind the door listening.
“How did you find me here?”
He shifted away from me and he was quiet again, if not for that familiar scent or the way his chest rose and fell and the way the moonlight casted a silver glow on his charcoal black hair, I would think I was still dreaming.
“Kylee hasn’t told you yet, has she?”
That thing that made Kylee so furious she wanted to punish him.
“What… What is it that you’re not telling me?”
“I’m sorry”. He said and he came closer, I wanted to pull away and demand for answer is because confusion was chewing my toes, threatening to tear me open.
But, the moment his finger grazed my skin, that part in me that he had dominated had pushed my resistance and I craved more of his touch. He knew, because he stole the opportunity and he kissed me.
Running his tongue on my bottom lip, I parted it and kissed him deeply, tasting his tongue, the roof of his mouth, everything. When we pulled away my breathing was rugged.
“I love you” he whispered and climbed off the bed.
“Where are you going?” I asked and I heard the desperation in my own voice.
He smiled.
“Kaylee knows the way back home and don’t tell her I came until she tells you what I did”
“I don’t understand… Why did you come if you weren’t planning to take me with you”
“I was planning to take you home, with me. I changed my mind. Kylee is right, as much as I want to have you all to myself, selfishly and unapologetically… You still have a choice”
I watched with wide eyes as he reached the door.
“When Kylee returns, tell her to confess what I did. Please don’t hate me”
“What did you do?” I asked, my thoughts were flashing wildly.
Did he kill Jay after all?
“When she tells you, you have two choices. Leave, go far away or come back to me”
I understood, coming back would mean I forgive him, leaving would mean I couldn’t stand him, was it that bad?
“If I leave, would you come after me?” I asked.
“N__” he let out a sigh. “Yes”
“So what is the use of leaving?”
“So that I’ll know that you hate me”
I was quiet, he left.
I had locked that door from the inside.
I waited for Kylee. Staying awake was hard task I thought I could complete, not until Kylee shook my arms, jerking me awake from sleep. I knew I fell asleep at a point in time.
I rubbed my eyes and winced as a horrible headache swam beneath my skull.
“Jenna, are you alright?” Kaylee asked scanning my face.
I sat up and opened my eyes, the entire world was a spinning vehicle. I braced myself, there was a foul smell in the room.
I looked around, searching, my eyes fell on the tray that carried breakfast of eggs and bacon and coffee.
“Fuck” I mouthed, feeling the smell of the delicious egg entering my nose but somehow, that sweet smell turned sour after some seconds.
I dashed towards the bathroom and I threw up nothing but saliva liquid. Once I was done, my surroundings became clearer, I realized that Kylee was standing behind me, holding my hair.
She released me and I stumbled to my feet.
“I guess you don’t want some breakfast”
I scrunched my nose.
“I have no appetite”
“Jenna, I’ve got to tell you something” she said and suddenly, remembered that Christian was in my room last night.
“I’m all ears” I said and I went to the bedroom and laid down, the smell of the food bothered me but I kept myself from focusing on it, instead I focused on the fear in my chest.
“Christian messed with your contraceptive”
It was twenty seconds before I even realized that Kylee spoke. I turned to her.
“Huh?”
“Christian.. I told him you were looking too pale to be okay, he mentioned that he noticed and your sleeping patterns were different and I said you might be… Pregnant. He admitted to swapping you contraceptive pills ”
“With what?” I asked, it was the only question I could come up with.
She laughed but none of it reached her eyes.
“He has friends in pharmaceutical companies. He said it was a vitamin, he said you didn’t notice because everything was the same packing, only the pills were different ”
I stared down at the ground.
“Is that even legal?” I asked and she laughed again.
“He’s to he law ” she said and everything went silent for a while.
“So, there’s no doubt that you’re pregnant ”
I laughed at everything, all of it. Kaylee looked at me in a way that told me she was concerned.
“He’s codependent on you Jenna, he’s obsessed, he’s crazy. I didn’t know how bad it would get and it had gotten so bad no one can stop it”
“He was here last night ”
She only blinked and I knew she heard me. “He’s not angry at you. He wanted you to tell me and he gave me two choices, leaves or go back to him”
“You can’t leave, he’ll always find you, and you’re carrying his child, it makes it worse ”
She laughed after a while.
“What?”
“You didn’t strike me as someone that would make a man with a heart of stone so desperate and blindly mad”
I was quiet and she muttered something.
“Are you coming ”
“Where?”
“He gave you two choices. Leave or go back to him. You love him don’t you?”
I was quiet.
“Let’s go” she said and she left.