When Emily woke up the next morning, her heavy eyes fluttering open in the unfamiliar hotel room she had staggered into the previous night after she had pulled away from Jackson, her chest heavy and her mind with the thoughts running to and fro but she only one agenda plaguing her mind, the moment she sat up on the fluffy bed.Revenge.She had refused to pick up her phone, having to resist the urge to fling it at the wall but she managed to restrict herself. Her phone buzzed again beside, Ethan’s name springing on the screen but she ignored it, walking towards the window that overlooked the city’s view as she poured herself a glass of wine; red sparkling and sour, she winced but she allowed herself to enjoy even though it burned through her throat in an unusual way.Anita was pregnant for Ethan’s baby, Anita her half sister that she never acknowledged and Ethan her contract marriage husband that she was going to marry for real.Maybe it was time, maybe it was time she met her father.
“This is your sister Anita” Mr. Brown said just as the shock registered on Anita’s face“She knows” Emily said immediately “She has always known”"How? How have you always known" Mr. Brown asked but Anita wasn't paying attention to him.Angry, Anita charged towards Emily and grabbing her by her arm “What the hell do you think you’re doing”“You’re pregnant for Ethan’s baby, my husband”“You don’t even love him” Anita cried out“It doesn’t matter” Emily said “You crossed the line and you don’t expect me to just sit and watch you do that, you underestimate me a lot”“You’re pregnant?” Mr. Brown voiced out but Anita only spared him a brief glance “Stay out of this dad” she said turning back to Emily and moving a step closer to her in a threatening manner“So what are you going to do about it now? I’m pregnant with your husband’s baby and so what?”Emily stared back, feeling her anger totally engulf her when Anita’s phone started ringing out loudly when she looked at her phone, she smiled
The silence was loud and lasted for several minutes than it need be, Ethan in shock and Emily equally in shock but tainted by uncertainty. A million thoughts ran through her hand, her hands were unsteady and the positive pregnant test staring at the both of them. She looked away from Ethan, she tried to act aloof even though her heart kept pounding loudly behind her chest.Who was the father? Was the question that kept repeating itself round her head and yet unable to come up with an answer. She washed her hands by the sink but not saying a word to Ethan because what exactly could she say? Her hands were shaky, no matter how much she tried to steady them.She was pregnant? How could she be pregnant? It was worse that she wasn’t sure who the father was.“Emily?” Ethan called again, this time making way for her to pass through out of the bathroom.“I’m not ready to talk about it yet?” she told him, collapsing herself unto the sofa, her head in her hand as the felt the pressure closing
Jackson stared at Emily’s text from seated inside his car from the location he was supposed to meet up with, just a few seconds he dropped the call with Blair asking to see him in the location. Weird. But he decided not to think too much about it, instead he got down from the car and headed inside. Immediately he saw Blair smiling and waving at him, beckoning him towards her. She had a weird nervous glint in her eyes that he decided to ignore for the reason that she always seemed to have that weirdness ingrained in her mannerisms.“Hey sweetie” she got up to hug him, her raspberry scent filling his nose completely, hesitant at first but he returned her hug. Why couldn’t he concentrate? He kept checking his phone, expecting another text from Emily but instead he sent a text back.“What’s wrong?”Why did he feel something was off? There was Blair smiling weirdly at him and being overly affectionate even though they promised to be affectionate with each other in public, and there was Emi
“What the hell happened?!” Ethan stormed angrily into the emergency room of the hospital where Jackson was seated, waiting. He grabbed Jackson by the collar, pulling him up, his eyes dilated in anger.“Where’s Emily?!” he thundered again and Jackson pried himself away from his Ethan’s hold.“Relax damn, she’ll be fine” Jackson said, even though within him he knew he was worried but he didn’t have the strength to deal with Ethan’s tantrum, he was the dealing with the shock of it all.“What do you mean? She’s pregnant” Ethan said and Jackson froze.“What?” Jackson looked at Ethan now, his eyebrows raised and his heart rate suddenly picking up.“Emily’s pregnant?” he asked again and Ethan gave him a strange look“She didn’t tell you, I thought she was going to – ”“She didn’t have the chance to” Jackson said now, the realization suddenly dawning on him. That was why Emily wanted to see him, to tell him she was pregnant?This time, Ethan grabbed Jackson by the shoulder, his eyes conflicte
When Jackson returned later that night to Emily’s hospital room, she was wide awake with her eyes fixed on the television, a slow movie playing.“Hey” Jackson said, his head peeking into the room with a small smile on his face and she returned the smile giddily.“Hey” she said back “come in?”Jackson walked in, flowers in one hand and chocolate in another and he handed them to her “How you feeling?”“Just tired but I couldn’t sleep, I had this movie on but turns out it’s quite interesting” she explained and Jackson nodded, sitting on the arm chair beside her bed as he studied her face. Her beautiful that had remained stuck in his head since the first time he realized she was the girl from the masked ball, and now she was possibly pregnant with his child. He meant every word he had said to Ethan, he wasn’t backing down this time, he was going to for her and he didn’t care the consequences.“Blair?” Emily asked, her eyes watching him and Jackson shrugged.“She’s on the run with Jesse, i
When Emily’s eyes fluttered open, she knew immediately that something was wrong. She could feel it, deep within her bones, the emptiness that encompassed her and radiated through her entire being.Her eyes didn’t suddenly flutter open, it was a slow game. A dull ache festering in her head and in her lower stomach as she tried to sit up but the room was dark and cold. The annoying beep of the monitor kept echoing back at her, the iv still stuck in her hand as she tried to focus an image but it was pitch dark.The panic set it, a cold sweat broke out on her forehead and she gripped the sheets tighter with her heart pounding fast.“Hello” she called out to the darkness but there was no response, only the silence echoes back at her.Suddenly she felt footsteps around her, approaching her slowly. The slow tang of their shoes that she couldn’t tell if it was a high-heeled slippers or a flat sole sneaker, suddenly she couldn’t move, she felt strapped in with icy cold hands gripping her arms
Jackson’s eyes shot open suddenly on the cold hard ground he found himself, a blinding pain shooting across the back of his head and his face. He tried to move but his hands were tied behind him tightly, the edges of the zip tie cutting across his skin. He tried to focus his vision but it was damn near impossible in the pitch blackness. His tongue was dry, and tasted metallic. Confusion clouded his brain as he tried to understand what was going on.What was going on? Where was he? Last he remembered, he was talking to Ethan about Emily and then - shit! Someone attacked him from behind. Panic rose in his chest, suddenly heaving up and down when the door opened and someone walked in, he tried to look up but the pain shot across but he fought through it and balancing himself on his knees.The door seemed farther away from he lay helplessly, so their steps were slow and calculated and almost intimidating, the echoes of their leather boots knocking seamlessly across the wooden floor.“You