Marlani’s Pov “I know, give him a chance, he will come around, I promise.” I said to Eggust's dad who was on the phone complaining about Eggust’s attitude recently. I tried to make him calm down, but when Sylvester was upset, only Sylvester could make himself calm. After he hung up the call, I tried to reach Eggust, but I still couldn’t. It hit the voicemail as it had been doing for the last few weeks. Something was up with Eggust, I could tell. As a mother, I knew it wasn’t something trivial. If Juss was here, maybe she would have helped talk some sense into him. He always listened to her, sometimes, more than he listened to me. I tried calling her as well, but her number was not reachable. I realized she had changed her line. “Damn you both, Juss and Eggust!” I couldn’t understand why the two most important people in my life suddenly decided to go awol, leaving me to worry about them. I wasn’t worried about Eggust as much as I was Juss, be
Juss’s Pov I had a strange dream, I was floating in space. I looked different, I sounded different, and I wasn’t pregnant anymore. I scanned my environment, but I could only see darkness. It was like a dark cloud covering the sky like a blanket. I was alone where I was, but I could hear voices echoing from a distance. “Juss, Juss,” I heard someone call out to me faintly, as if they were careful not to wake me, but it was strange because I wasn’t even sleeping. Or was I… Dead? Panic surged through me as I tried to process what was going on. My breaths became unsteady, I felt the wind pull me down, while I struggled to stop myself from falling. I was so afraid to fall because I thought if I did, that would be the end, so I held still. “Eggust, Eggust?” I called his name, hoping he would appear and tell me everything was going to be fine. But the more I called his name, the more my voice echoed, and soon the wind began to spin me really fast. I tried too hard to hold
Eggust’s Pov Ezekiel and I were on our way to the store to get some supplies because Juss finally agreed to move in with me to my apartment, which lacked quite a number of things. I knew Juss wouldn’t be comfortable after my mum’s visit, and I had always wanted us to move, her apartment was too small, so I took mum’s confrontation as an opportunity to finally convince her to move out of her apartment and into mine. It was bigger, had all the things that wouldn’t make her bored, and she had tons of maids attending her to her. When I first told her we were moving, I thought she would speak against it or try to convince me otherwise, but she accepted the idea and I was glad she did. “What?” I asked, noticing Ezekiel had been staring at me through the rear mirror. He shook his head and focused on the road. “Ezekiel if you have something to say, just say it. We’ve been over this over and over again.” I clamored, after catching him staring at me again: “It’s not
Juss’s Pov I always thought that the hardest part of my relationship with Eggust was Marlani finding out about it. But the hardest part was dealing with life, now that the secret was finally out. Marlani had said some hurtful words to me, which I completely understood was coming from a place of hurt. I didn’t expect her to react the way she did, I wasn’t even sure what it was I expected from her, but it definitely wasn’t being slut shamed. I had tried calling her a couple of times since I got discharged from the hospital, but the call kept going to voicemail. I knew the best thing to do was to give her some space, but the selfish side of me didn’t want to, because I couldn’t imagine going through one of the hardest stages of my life, without having my best friend by my side. Because my selfish self doesn’t want to accept the reality that things might never be the same again between Marlani and I. I sobbed as the memories of all the things we had done together c
Eggust’s Pov "You might want to sit down before I tell you." Ezekiel said to me after hanging up. My heart skipped a beat. Ezekiel had a sadist's sense of humor sometimes but he would not scare me like this for nothing. "What is it?" I demanded, " Please tell me it's not Him again." It was funny how I kept getting into the same situations I was trying to avoid, I guess I just couldn’t help it, my subconscious is a sucker for tragedy. “Ezekiel! Spit it out!” I clamored, when he wouldn’t answer me. Of course he knew who 'Him' was. It left a bitter taste in my mouth to just say the word, let alone call him by his name. Calling him my mother's husband wasn't any better. I had just seen him a few days ago, what did he want again? But to my surprise, Ezekiel shook his head. "It's not him." It wasn't? There was no one else who could make Ezekiel so uncomfortable except Him, so why was he like this? My eyes narrowed as I stared at Ezekiel, trying to scare him into giv
Marlani's POV I still couldn’t believe it was Juss Indigo who had pulled my son into the darkness I had been trying so hard to fight. I kept asking myself what I did wrong, what I missed or didn’t miss. My mind was overflowing with streams of thoughts. I didn’t know when I searched the internet for problems similar to mine, you’d be surprised by the number of women who were going trough the same thing as myself. I almost puked when I found out there was even a club for it. And the names were terrifying. A woman made a post about her best friend who had been sleeping with her son since he was a teenager, and now they were married with children. She feared that her son might have been manipulated into the relationship. Of course he was, I wondered why she even made a post about it when the truth was right in front of her. There was another woman who made a post about finding out that her 45 year old best friend was sleeping with her 19 year old son. My hear
Hera’s Pov It’s been a few days since I told Eggust’s mum about his relationship with Juss, but I still ran into them at the store. How was that even possible? I thought by now, Eggust would have returned to London with his mum and Juss would have ran to any corner of the earth she chose. But that wasn’t the case. “They were holding hands!” I yelled at Isla who I was on the phone with. “Maybe he’s just with her because of the pregnancy. You know Eggust, he’s an honorable man, the bitch probably used her pregnancy to keep him. “Do you think if I was pregnant, Eggust would have stayed with me?” “Of course not, Hera. You know how careful he was when we were together. We would have never gotten pregnant even by a mistake.” She was right, Eggust always felt some type of way about children, that’s why I was shocked when we allowed Juss to keep her pregnancy. “You’re right, I just hate that stupid bitch. I hope she falls and lose the pregnancy, probably her life as we
Hera’s Pov I laid on the couch, my eyes fixated on the television, I had been watching too many crime documentaries recently, because it was obvious that someone needed to die between Juss and Marco, who made it their duty to get me upset. Mia was slowly being added to the list as well. She had been subtly asking me why I hadn’t found a job yet, I wish I could tell her it was because I was too busy trying to create a life for myself, a life I wouldn’t need to work for a dime. A life with Eggust Flemming. The front door opened, Mia walked in wearing a frown. At first, I thought it was because she had a bad day, or perhaps she had eaten something that her system didn’t agree with, but there was a part of me that knew the reason was neither. She was probably upset because she met me sitting on the couch, and not out in the streets searching for a job. “Is something wrong?” I asked, feigning ignorance. “No, Hera, nothing is wrong.” Her tone was hostile, but I was u