Eating was now a very long and terrible chore for me. I swear If it were left for me, I wouldn’t bother myself with anything to eat or drink as I now hated food with so much passion.“Baby please I beg you. You need your strength for this. Please eat something,” Henry would plead with me on several occasions and I would just shrug.He knew that the only reason why I would even think of eating at all was if they would give me the strength to fight again.I always had it at the back of my mind while eating. “You’re doing this for your baby,” I kept telling myself while forcing that one last piece of eggs down your throat.I was already very pale and frail even with the fact that I was eating the way Henry wanted me to.Well, I guess depression really does make one lose a lot of weight.“Do you think my baby is dead?” I asked randomly again and I could tell that Henry was already tired of answering that question and just needed a fucking break even from me as I could be a lot.I knew tha
“Baby… relax okay? I understand how you feel completely. And I don’t expect you to believe me but I do. I feel your pain and it breaks me to see you this way everyday. We can work this out,” he said and that actually made me a little bit calm.I took in a deep breath and breathed out again, looking around me as though someone else was in the room asides us.I didn’t know why but it just felt really weird, my surroundings. I felt like I was constantly watched. The doctor said it was PTSD and it was going to stop and I believed him but it was slowly driving me nuts.“I have to be strong for my baby,” I muttered lowly to myself while Henry bowed his head watching me. I knew it broke him but I couldn’t help it.“What are your men saying? Any progress?” I asked in anticipation while he shook his head sadly.My heart broke for the umpteenth time knowing that some crazy people were with my child and there was nothing I could do about it.I was sitting on the couch, sipping my cup of juice an
“Just tell me how long you’ve been standing here, okay? You really have no right to eavesdrop on my calls, Jane,” he said. His voice was cold and harsh, like ice.“Is it me or do you sound really cold right now?” I asked him. I felt hurt and confused by his tone.He shrugged. “Well, there are very different versions of me, just as there are very different versions of you. I’m not the only one who has to deal with shit. You have to deal with some kind of shit too, if not today then tomorrow,” he said.I was so surprised he was talking to me like that. He had never been so rude to me before. I mean, he was the one who wooed me over. I never really thought about what his character would be like and how he would treat me. It was so stupid of me. Delusional, again, I would say. But he had to apologize to me, because I wasn’t about to let him speak to me like that.“Wait, what did you say?” I asked him, wanting him to repeat the exact same things he said the exact same way. Because again,
“Oh my goodness, what do you mean catching feelings for him? I can’t believe you said that,” I said, slightly annoyed but very angry on the inside. I was rubbing my forehead with my hand, trying to calm my nerves down, but it wasn’t working. I swear, if he had said anything more to aggravate me, I would explode. Literally.“I’m just saying, women are never to be trusted, especially when it comes to relationships and stuff like that. And it’s not just a relationship. You were once married to this man,” he said. He looked at me with a cold and accusing stare. Even Rick couldn’t look at me like that, because he didn’t have a reason to. And I wasn’t going to take it from him, especially when we were in the middle of something and he probably had a hand in it.“Look, I am a woman. I am Jane. And I am delusional. I love you to stupor. I don’t care about any other relationship I had in the past with any man. I don’t care about any marriage I had in the past with any man. What I care about ri
He glared at me with anger and disbelief. “What do you mean you want to find our son? I want to find him as much as you do, or even more. Remember that I’ve never had kids before. This is my first child. I’m going to find him, okay? So you need to relax. We’re all agitated here. We’re all tired. We’re all stressed out. You need to calm down,” he said in a calm voice, but I could hear the edge in his tone.I smiled weakly, pretending to agree with him. But I was secretly determined to follow my own plan. I had to find out what was going on.“Listen to me, Henry. I’ve already told you that we should investigate your ex-husband Rick. I don’t know why you decided to bring up an issue about it, but it’s worthless. We need to go and pay him a visit, even if it’s just a visit, okay?” I asked, while he groaned.“Oh my goodness, Jane. Okay, fine. I’ve heard you. We’re going to pay him a visit, okay? But not today. Tomorrow morning,” he said.I shook my head emphatically. “No, no. My son cannot
“Oh no, Henry, you did not just do that to me,” I said to him angrily. He had just hung up the phone after talking to someone who claimed to have our son. He had refused to tell me who it was or where we were going.He rolled his eyes and sighed. Then he removed his hands from his chin and placed them on my lap. “Look, relax, okay? We’re going to meet your ex-husband, but this is the location they asked us to come to and that’s where we’re going,” he said.I breathed a sigh of relief. I thought he didn’t trust me. I guess I was being a little bit paranoid, but still, everyone around me was a suspect, including Henry. He was already acting a little bit shady and I didn’t want anything to happen to me before I could even get a chance to save my son. But the road that we were taking was not even the way to my ex-husband’s house, so that was what made me very confused.“Why did he change his location or something? I mean, he didn’t used to live around here before,” I said, looking around
“Alright, everyone, abort mission and reset,” Henry said into his earpiece. He looked at me with a serious expression. “What do you mean, abort mission? We’re going to do this thing today,” I shouted at him. He yelled back at me, “Stop it, just stop and listen to me for once in your life. Stop it and listen to me, okay? We’re not taking him by force. We’re going to negotiate and I have my reasons for doing so, okay? I don’t even know why I brought you here. I should’ve just gone with the rest of my team because we already had a plan before coming here. Come on, Jane, I’ve already told you the plan. All you have to do is follow it.” He shouted, making me flinch. I had to pause and listen to all that he had said. It made sense. I was just going to sit back and watch everything unfold. Hopefully, it was going to be a success.“Okay, fine, fine. It’s fine. I’ll be quiet, I promise,” I said calmly this time. Then he decided to lean on the car and rub his temples again to calm himself dow
“Do you know you’re wasting my time right here, Henry? I need to find my son. I haven’t sent him breastmilk in days. I really need to find my son. So can you please hurry up whatever it is you’re doing and just get to the chase and tell us who did it if you know? Or else I’ll just assume that you’re wasting my time and I’ll leave.” I said to him in a frustrated tone. I looked at him expectantly, but he just stood there with a blank expression. He didn’t say anything. He didn’t do anything. He just stared at me with his cold blue eyes. I felt that there were so many things he needed to settle with me, but I wasn’t even ready to start settling anything with anyone at that moment. So I had to tell him.“Hey, look, I know that you have so many things against me. I know you’re still holding a grudge for me taking you to court and everything that has happened along the line. But can you break it? It’s been months, probably close to a year or a year and a half. You’re supposed to get over i