The Empress Who Wasn't

Chapter 14

As Alyssa drove home in the darkness of light with her daughter finally safe and back she couldn't help but think about him. What was gonna change how he was gonna affect her life she never let him back in because she knew she couldn't let go or push him out if he came back so she banished him but her plan failed she let him back in and now she's in love with him.
"It's not what I want" Alyssa says under her breath trying to push these recent memories with David away. After driving listening to music knowing her and her daughter are safe they finally pull up to their house where this whole series of events started with a bedtime story. She pulls in and opens the door, Oakley barges through and runs up to Sean.
"DADDY" she screams running into his arms, Alyssa stood there smiling.
"This is the life I want" she tells herself looking at her family, her husband, the man she loves, her daughter and their happy little home. She walks into the kitchen and sees blood on the counter, curious she asks.
"You ok Sean" she examined the kitchen like a crime scene investigator.
"Oh, I'm fine I just cut myself preparing food" Sean says quickly. Alyssa stands there thinking looking, there's no knife or food only blood, she looks to the garbage to see anything while she hears the sound of Oakley laughing and giggling with Sean, until something shiny catches her eye she walks closer and grabs it out the garbage can staring at the tiny bronze object for a second until her heart drops into her stomach.
"A BULLET" she screams in her head, her mind racing until she puts it together Sean was one of the men at Somerset. She walks into the living room and sees Sean playing with Oakley.
"Lets just order some pizza, can you call them, I have to use the bathroom" Alyssa says trying her best to sound calm and normal.
"Yeah of course one meat lovers' and breadsticks right?" Sean asks. Alyssa just nods her head and walks into the bathroom once she gets in she closes and locks the door and looks into the mirror her hands are shaking, not her whole body is shaking. Sean, the man she loves, the man she chose to be with, the one who kidnapped her daughter. She grabs the gun hidden under her shirt and puts it in on the bathroom sink and grabs her phone and quickly calls David.
RING RING RING "pick up, pick up, pick up" she says quietly.