Broken

12

"So you made your assistant send a letter to him?"

"Yes."

I hugged my mother and she hugged me back. It had been such a long time since I felt this kind of happy embrace.

The last one I had was when was 4.

I looked at her face and I could see the bruises on her neck,cheek and forehead.

"How's your forehead?" She asked me with concern.
"It's getting better." I responded.
"Welcome...mother." Elron greeted from upstairs.
My mother smiled and nodded her head.

Elron descended and came to sit beside me in the couch.
"Mom, we've decided that we don't want to do a gender reveal." Elron said,placing his hand on my knee.
"Why so?" My mom asked.
"I guess we want God to surprise us." I answered.
My mom smiled and hugged me.
"Your belly is so huge!" She exclaimed. Elron swelled with pride when she said this and I just blushed.

"Yeah but the only annoying part is the cravings she has."

"It's normal. When I was pregnant,I wanted to eat uncooked spaghetti." What she said made us all laugh.
I liked seeing my mother happy. Not sad or scared of someone beating heaven and earth out of her.

"So what will you name the baby?"

"If it's a boy,maybe Lukas and if it's a girl...hmm....well I haven't thought that much of the girl names."

My mother was more excited to see the baby.
Elron just wanted a tiny person that reminded him of us. And that made me happy.

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"Ó a stór.. Fós feargach?" (Oh dear. Still angry?)
The Irish lady had her hand all over his toned and muscular chest.

He brushed it away and and got off the couch. He sipped his glass of alcohol and loved the sting in his throat. That was what he needed. Pain. For himself and that slut.

You're mine Priscilla!

"Nancy,I'll be off work for a while." He told his secretary before cutting the call.
He needed to find a way to get his revenge. On that idiot Claire and that slutty Anna.

"Hello... Yes this is Felix Dotson. I want you to keep your eyes on two people...."

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"Claire?" I called her when she was making dinner.

"Hmm?" She responded.

I patted the space between my thigh.

"Okay.. although this is extremely weird" she said while sitting down. I gently held onto her hair fiddled with it for a bit before saying "In order for me to help you with your case,you'll have to tell me everything."

She looked at me with her doe eyes before nodding.

"My mom and I suffered beatings everyday in the house." She said.
"He began raping me when I was 13."

Those words stung like a needle and I grabbed her in an embrace not paying notice to her bump.

"I'm really sorry."

"It's okay."

I felt years well up in my eyes when I heard what she said. Even though I had done those terrible things to her,she still treated me kindly.

"El-Elron?" She mentioned my name softly.
I felt this heat ignite in me when she mentioned my name like that.

"Yeah."

She shook her head and said "Nevermind."

I held her hand and said "Say it."

"No it's okay."

"Say it."

"No it's fi-" she paused mid-way and looked at my face. I felt my jeans dampen before realising what was happening.

She was going into labour.

"Ah!" She screamed in pain.

How could it be? She wasn't due till at least next month.
"ELRON!" She yelled my name and held onto my shirt.

"Breathe,Claire,breathe." I tried to calm her. She breathed in but after a few seconds,she screamed in pain again.

I hurriedly took my phone and punched some numbers into it.

I had never felt such pain in my life. It was as if my whole being would rip in two. Elron was trying to call an ambulance but it was no use.
He carried me and placed me in his car.

"Breathe,Claire,Breathe!" He kept on saying.
"Don't tell me to breathe!" I snapped. I sharply breathed in some air and yelled again.
"Get it out of me!" I cried out.

We got to the hospital within a few minutes and throughout the whole walk to the ER,he held onto my hand. I saw how he would occasionally scrunch in pain when I held too tightly and it warmed my heart how far he would go in order to see me not suffering.