The Rouge and the Reject

When the Levee Breaks (Part 2)

Arya.

            “You are going to rot in this fucking house until the day you die. I will make damn sure of that.” Connor sneered down at me his voice full of animosity.

            I woke up drenched in sweat gasping for air for the first time in weeks. Daniel immediately sat up with me holding me in his arms murmuring sweet words into my ear.

            “It’s okay baby. Shhh.” He whispered kissing me over and over again. I sat there for a minute trying to catch my breath. I looked around and noticed we were in our bedroom in Alaska. How did I get up here? The only thing I remembered about last night was cooking dinner and sitting down to eat. I looked at Daniel who was starting at me his eyes filled with concern.

            “Wh-what happened last night?” I asked so confused. Daniel closed his eyes and let out a deep breath. He yawned and rubbed his eyes before stretching his arms over his head.

            “Let me go grab us some coffee and a joint and we can talk about last night okay babe? Just stay right here, don’t leave the room.” Daniel smiled swinging his legs over the edge of the bed.  As he stood up I noticed him discreetly placing his gun in the drawer of the night stand.

Why did he have his gun out? Daniel walked over to the wardrobe and tossed on some sweatpants. He grabbed his keys off the table and left the room. I heard the soft sound of the lock clicking on the door.

What the fuck? Daniel never locked me in a room.  Something wasn’t right. I stood up out of bed and walked over to the door and attempted to turn the knob, it was locked. My head was killing me, I felt disgusting. What the fuck happened last night?

I made my way to the bathroom and turned on the shower letting the water get nice and hot. I stripped off the remainder of my clothes and stepped into the amazing shower letting the hot water cascade over me.  I thought about the crazy nightmares I had last night. Why had they started up again? I haven’t thought about my brother in weeks, I was finally sleeping at night. Did those girls ever come over last night? My mind was swimming with questions. Just as I was finishing off my shower I heard the bedroom door open. Daniel walked in with a tray in his hands. I pulled on a bathrobe and walked out into the room and smiled.

            “Come on.” Daniel smiled as he walked over towards the balcony. He opened the doors and set the tray down on the small table. There were two cups of coffee and two freshly baked blueberry muffins next to a nice, fat joint. 

            “Who made the muffins?” I asked sitting down in a chair, I grabbed my coffee taking that incredible first sip.

            “June, she wanted to make up for the chaos last night.” Daniel said sitting down, he grabbed the joint and lit it passing it to me before grabbing his coffee. I took a large hit off the joint letting the smoke seep into my being. My headache began to melt away, my body relaxed.

            “What happened last night? All I remember is making dinner and sitting down to eat then it goes black.” I said passing the joint to him. Daniel stared out to the ocean for a few minutes taking a couple hits off the joint he passed it back and sipped his coffee running a hand through his messy brown hair.

“Well….there is really no easy way to put this.” Daniel sighed. “Apparently your brother is mated to my friend Melody. He showed up here last night with June and her. You had an anxiety attack and passed out. Also I may have beat Connor within an inch of his life.” Daniel said turning to face me. My whole world turned upside down. It took me a couple minutes to register the information Daniel just gave me. Memories of the previous night started to flood back all at once. Dinner, the girls coming up the stairs, then of course Connor standing on the porch with a look of remorse plastered across his face.