Current Location: My living room "Jesus Emma you scared the crap out of us!" Shane said looking as white as a ghost. I laughed "Well last time I checked this is my house correct? I am not use to so many adorable creatures in it. Hey kids are you guys hungry?" Austin, Carter, and Molly said in unison "Starving " I responded with "Good let is eat than."After we all got situated at the dining room table for dinner, I opened all the containers, and pointed out what each dish was. Austin wanted spaghetti and meatballs, Carter wanted raviolis, so did Molly. Shane I both went for pierogis and a sausage linguine. Everyone also had a slice of the sauce less pizza and some salad."Emma thank you so much for dinner it was an unexpected joy!" Austin, Carter, and Molly followed Shane and they all said their thanks. "You are mommy’s cousin, right? Why is daddy here with you without her?" Molly asked out of the blue. "Yes, sweetie I am her cousin, but I have been friends with your daddy for a long
Current Location: Outside the Dragon house restaurant Kyle, Lucas, and I were all sitting in my car. One of the men Kyle tasked with finding Derek told us he was staying at Dragon House. Dragon House was not just a restaurant, but also a hotel. They only had a handful of rooms, and unless you had a lot of money you could not afford it. Each room was very luxurious and had a lot of accommodations. One night in the Dragon house cost almost two thousand dollars.Derek has been here since the day of the wedding. It may only be two days, but that was already four thousand dollars he was shelling out. Kyles man said he booked the room for seven days and nights. Derek was burning over ten thousand dollars on this one room, which was nuts since he only lives fifteen minutes away. The amount of money he was spending should tell you how well off my family is financially. My mother, siblings and I had much more wealth than Derek and Ruby did. It may seem like I am rambling or bragging here, but
Current Location: Big Henry's Steak and FriesCurrently I was sitting down having lunch at my favorite restaurant with Lucas and Kyle. I had just got done telling them about Derek’s objectives list. " Kyle, I want someone at all times to have eyes on Derek until we stop him. It is time for my cousin and I to meet face to face so we can end this. Any ideas?" Lucas spoke first. "Well, you can just show up at his room and confront him with a bodyguard of course!" Kyle shook his head no. "I think it would be better to pull him out of his room. Lore him somewhere neutral and secluded. Then many of our men can be there in the shadows and they would be able to get to you if need be. Lucas or I would be escorting you and staying by your side of course."We decided to go with Kyles plan. Besides it was the safest of the two. Kyle would be the one who was going with me. After all he was a trained fighter and Lucas was not. Lucas also has a wife and daughter, and I did not want to put him in harm
Current Location: Crossing paths mallIt was currently Monday, and I was at the food court with Natasha. I agonized over whether I was going to tell her about what I did to Derek. In the end I decided I would. I needed to talk to someone about it before it swallowed me whole. Though Kyle knew and he saw what happened with his own two eyes, I really wanted to talk to Natasha about it."Natasha I have to tell you something horrific that I did. I am not sure how you are going to react or if you are going to even want to be part of my life after this. I trust you more than anyone, and if I do not talk to someone about it, it may very well drive me insane." With deep concern on her face Natasha responded with" Come now Emma. How long have we known each other? There is nothing you can do or say that will break our bond! Our friendship, or rather sisterhood, means more than anything in the world to me."I looked at Natasha with tears in my eyes. "You mean the world to me as well. That is why
Current Location: The back seat of Kyles car"Shane? What are you doing here?" I asked with an edge to my voice. "Wondering what the hell you are doing out here. I saw you leave the house, and I came over to talk to you. I expected you to be alone not with other people." Lucas looked at me "Ma'am ask him to show you his left forearm." I complied and Shane rolled his eyes and pulled up his sleeve. "That is your arm show me your left." Without thinking he pulled up his left sleeve. In that moment I knew I was not talking to Shane, but Spencer instead!Shane has a tattoo on his left forearm of a black cat in remembrance to his friend Catalina who tragically died in a hit and run accident. "You are not Shane!" I said in a shaky voice. Kyle pulled out his 9.mm and pointed it at Spencer’s head.Spencer ignored Kyle and said to me urgently " No I am not, I never said I was. My name is Spencer Delrose. A few months ago, I moved in with my sister Sandie only to find out shortly after she change
Current Location: My basement Shane, Spencer, and I had been talking for the last two hours. It was a little after one a.m. I sent Kyle and Lucas away a while ago, though I was sure one of them was outside watching the house at that moment. The three of us talked everything out, and Shane now knew everything he needed to. Shane and Spencer wanted to know more than anything about where they came from and how they got separated. They wanted to understand why they were giving away. Except we were not sure if Shane actually was. Shane planned to call out of work in the morning than he was going to go confront Pearl."Emma, I would appreciate it if you came with me. I would let you tag along to Spencer, but if my mother is not our biological Mother, I do not want to freak her out. Whether I am blood related to her or not she has been good to me over all these years, and I truly love her. But Spencer if you could arrange for us to get a DNA test that would be swell. And I am not going to te
Current Location: Pearls house on her backyard patioWhen we arrived at Pearl’s house Shane’s children were already off to school. I guess that was a good thing since this was going to be hard enough talking to Pearl about without the children over hearing and having questions of their own."I am so happy my Shane is done with that horrible wench and is finally with the woman he deserves!" Pearl beamed at me. Shane chuckled "Okay mother we know how you feel, but Emma and I did not come here just for a normal social visit. We need to talk to you about something extremely important."Pearl immediately got an ecstatic look on her face. "Yes. Yes. Yes. Emma you are pregnant! Or wait you two are getting married or hopefully both?" Shane grabbed pearl by the shoulders to stop her from bouncing up and down. "Mother! It really has nothing to do with Emma. Rather it has to do with You, me, and Spencer." Shane and I watched for Pearls reaction. She obviously had no idea who Shane was talking abo
Current Location: Ruby’s office "chill out Ruby! I can explain it all. Why not have Tim go and grab us some lunch. Once he is back, we will sit, eat, and I will catch you up on everything you have missed since Shane received those photos." I asked Ruby. She agreed and went to send Tim to grab some lunch from the nearby deli.About fifteen minutes later Tim came back with two hoagies, two bags of chips, and two sodas. It has been a long time since I had this type of food, and I was actually looking forward to it. "Okay Emma tell me how you came to know Spencer, and definitely how the hell he met Shane." Ruby said irritated. I took a deep breath before diving into it. Of course, I left a bunch out, but I gave her the basic run down of the order of events. I told Ruby about how it was actually because of her that Shane met Spencer. If she would have canceled their meet up, they would not have met. I told her all about how obsessed Derek was with me and how he enlisted Spencer’s help wit
Three months later“Mother can you stop trying to make today all about you for god sakes it is my wedding day not yours.” I said to my mother for about the fifteenth time in the last five minutes. I was already nervous as all hell about doing this in the first place and as usual my mother was making everything worse. “Emma, I am not trying to make this about me. I was just saying how ignorant it is for my date to cancel last minute. It is just so messed up I deserve better than this.” My mother said with a scornful tone. I just sighed shaking my head knowing I couldn’t stop her from being the selfish creature she is.“Come on Miss White they are ready for you outside.” Natasha said scooting my mother out the door. I gave her a thankful look and went back to trying to calm myself down. Natasha walked over to me and put her hand on the small of my back. “It is going to be okay Emma. I know marriage makes your skin crawl, but you love Shane, and he really loves you. I don’t think I have
After I jumped on Ruby’s back everything seemed to be moving in slow motion but at the same time it felt like everything was sped up. I know, I know that seems really confusing, but it was like the world around me was one big blur of movement while it seemed to take me a lifetime to knock her to the ground though my guess is it took mere seconds.Three things happened simultaneously. Ruby fell, her gun went off, and I knew someone had been shot because I was now covered in red specks of blood all over my arms and I could feel them on my face as well. The smell of rust and salt invaded my nostril and made me feel queasy. I couldn’t let it get to me however or Ruby might wind up with the upper hand.I struggled to grab her arms and pull them behind her back. For a small chick she was stronger than she looked, not to mention I just had surgery and my incision from the c-section hurt immensely. Finally, someone noticed how much trouble I was having and came over and kicked Ruby square in
I knew I had to start talking to Ruby to try and distract her so Kyle could sneak up on her and take her out. “I am really glad you find your psychotic ways so amusing. I mean someone has to think you will get out of this unscathed and why not let it be yourself. After all you have been through so much in these past few months. You lost Shane to a better woman, you murdered your own child, lost your second family, destroyed your career, and so much more but hey at least you can stand there with a grin on your face and be completely content!”Ruby’s face turned into a scowl I guess she didn’t like her short comings being thrown in her face. That was good I wanted to piss her off, so all her focus was on me. She didn’t even seem to realize as I was talking that Shane, Tony, and Natasha started slowly moving away from each other and their current position to situate themselves around her so we could cover her in a five point angle. Ruby stood there momentarily at a loss of what to say to
Emma:“I know what you are going to say Kyle, but we have to go out there. After all we both know she is here for me, and I am afraid of what she will do if I don’t show up.” I said to Kyle trying to convince him how important this decision was. Kyle sighed and turned his head towards me. “I know you are right but that does not mean I have to like it. The only way I will be comfortable with allowing you to go out there is if you stay behind me understood?”I shook my head at Kyle in disbelief. “You know as well as I do that will not work. She will kill you without a second thought to get to me. Look I have a better idea. I know she is going to talk my ear off before she does anything at all. I want you to go back up these stairs to the second floor and make your way to the other staircase. Once there come back down to this level and come in through the other entrance. My cousin’s eyes will be on me, and she will not see you sneaking up on her. What do you think?”Kyle told me that was
We all began yelling at detective Morris that he just shot Detective Wilcox. “No, no, no! I did not mean it. Jennifer, please tell me you are ok. Jennifer, please answer me!” Detective Morris screamed out in desperation. I called out and said I was going to crawl over and check on her. He gave me the go ahead and I slowly began crawling over to Jennifer being cautious as to not make the detective trigger happy again.When I made my way over to her I first checked her pulse and looked for where she had been hit. “She is unconscious and has a very thready pulse. You struck her once in the chest and once in the torso. You need to get someone in here now to get her and Emma to the hospital. We also have a third person who is injured. He got struck with shrapnel when the explosion happened out the back door.” I said hoping he would understand how urgent this matter was.“Officer down, I repeat officer down. We need two more ambulances aside for the one for Detective Wilcox we have two civi
Of course, it would be her. Who else is psychotic enough to start a shooting rampage through a fucking hospital. I was positive she knew I was here, and she was looking for me. “Kyle, can you see anyone else out there?” I asked not really wanting to know the answer but knowing I had to. Kyle moved his head as far left as he could while still being able to see out of the small rectangular window. “There are a few people lying on the floor. It does not appear that anyone is hurt. Ruby is out there pointing the gun at people and yelling but I can not hear her through the door. Holy shit! This is so fucked. Miss Emma, I do not want to alarm you, but Shane Tony and Natasha are out there!Natasha:Hello again dear reader. I know I said you would not be hearing from me again, however when I wrote that we thought everything was coming to an end and that I would not have anything to tell you that Emma could not. We were very wrong on that front seeing as while Ruby came into the hospital firin
Kyle and I took an immediate left and half walked have sprinted down to the elevators. Not surprising they were turned off. It makes sense that they would deactivate them with an active shooter on the premises. It Would be harder for them to get to a different floor. We headed over to the door for the stairs and headed through. Neither of us knew exactually which floor the NICU was on, so we decided to go to the highest level and work our way down. Along the way we stopped so Kyle could smash the glass on the fire ax box that was in each stairwell. He took the ax and led us the rest of the way up the steps. We went through the access door once we reach the top and walked through. We found ourselves in a hallway with doors every six feet or so on each side. I walked up to one of them an read the plaque on the wall. “LAB NUMBER THREE: REASEARCH AND DEVELEPOMENT”. Since the entire hall had these same type of rooms, we decided this was the wrong floor and there were no patients up here, s
Dr. Marsh and i exchanged looks before he told me to go lock myself in the bathroom. like that was going to fucking happen! There was currently someone inside the hospital shooting at people or something of that nature. There was no way i was going to stay here like a sitting duck. I sat up and slid off the bed. I located a bag in one of the chairs with my cell phone, socks, and shoes. I pulled out and put on the socks and shoes than I tried calling Shane. The phone just went to voicemail. The same thing when I called Natasha than Tony. I figured I would try calling Kyle even though I knew it was a long shot since he just had surgery. I was very surprised when he answered on the second ring in a very hushed voice. “Miss Emma! You are okay! Thank the Gods. I would ask about the babies and your health but right now we got a problem. Did you hear those gun shots and those people yelling?” Kyle asked me in one breath. I rolled my eyes and said, “Of course I heard it. I’m in the surgery w
My eyes grew wide as the realization of what Dr. Marsh just said to me sunk in. two friends went into surgery and only one made it out alive! I knew one of them had to be Kyle. We did our best to make sure his wound was closed but as far as I knew he was the only one hurt. Who the fuck died! “Dr. Marsh. I only knew of one of my friends who was hurt so let us start with the good news first. Who made it out of surgery?”Dr. Marsh looked at me with pity in his eyes. I did not like the way he was looking at me it made feel uneasy like he was about to tell me my word was over. Which I guess could be possible if the person he told me died was Shane. It could not be him! I hated not knowing what happened and I could not take much more of this. If it was the love of my life, I do not think I would ever be able to bring myself to get out of the hospital bed.“Miss White, I apologize I thought you knew about both your friends. Who would you like to hear about first?” Dr. Marsch asked me sadly.