The Truth of Ace

Nineteen

Madeline Rossi
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The light humming in the distance of my mind remained so vague to me but so familiar. The tune was one I recognized from a blinded past, one I sang softly to myself to sleep as a child while my parents would fight.

Not knowing where I picked up the tune, but here it was humming above me

"Please.... Don't do this! You need us, I'm your wife she's your daughter" the noise of stuff moving below grew

"You're not safe Beth! Liza will take you to Thomas!"

"Liza! She's only sixteen!" The sound of a trunk slamming from Beth's room echoed "she knows what to do Beth!" His voice grew frantically

"This is for you and Lila's safety, you go!" The image of Beth surfaced as she rummaged into the room and an unidentified face followed behind her as teddies and clothes were shoved into trunks haphazardly

"Come on Madeline.... Let's go" Beth reached her hand and her small body was engulfed by another's hug holding her close "Lila, be good for mummy. I'll always be with you"

I gasped for air as I awoke, a blood stained towel beside me as my dress was now stained different color. I was in a room with no explanations. A wide window viewing mountains and fields with not another place in sight. My body felt glued to the cyan couch it leaned against

I was battered and bruised from the looks to my arms, it wasn't a nightmare. My hand sank to my stomach clutching it, the weird sensation continuing "please don't leave me"

"Magdalēnē?" An unfamiliar accented voice called out to me as I laid in pain

"Ace" I mumbled "I need Ace"

She stood just mere feet away from me "He's coming" Liza stood infront of me

Her eyes pooled "Liza" I whispered and she nodded and bent down "it's okay Lila... you're safe" I stared at her and then looked down to my belly "doctors coming to examine the baby"

"Where am I? Who found me" her eyes shifted from mine to behind me

"Sofia told you didn't she?" Liza questioned

"Told me what?" She gave me a knowing look

"It's true isn't it? My father isn't Thomas" I whispered and she nodded "family stories are real, just not with Thomas"

I hated him, I hated Thomas Love or Sampson, whoever the fuck he was, I hated him "So what... you all just lied to me?" She just nodded with guilt

"Where the hell was he?" She sucked in her lips "protecting us, for years people have been looking for you. It's why Beth was weird around Ace when she figured out who he was" I felt my heart sink, she knew

"Liza" a voice echoed and she looked up nodding and stood "if you need me, just call out my name" she helped me sit up straight as I stared out the window in a daze

Footsteps trailed behind me and as I slowly turned my head he stood behind me. A man of 6'6 height and a reflection of myself in him, now I know why I didn't have mom or dads coloring, mom was blonde with dark brown eyes and I was a brunette with doughy honey ones