WHEN DADDY LEFT

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              Daniel's POV

My phone vibrates waking me up, I must have dozed off the rocking chair. It's the fifth day and no sign of my Y'vania yet.

Elio finally fell asleep after hours of crying. He isn't adjusting well to the milk the doctor recommended for him. He still wants breast milk and his mother isn't around. He's still so young. Y'vania wasn't planning on stopping to breastfeed him until he turns two.

He eats solids now, almost everything but he still drinks mama's milk especially at night. He cries a lot at night and I stay up all night trying to comfort him. Mia and I take turns to put him to sleep.

The rest of the family sleeps at their homes but Mia and Eddie stayed back. Mostly because baby Elio is at least closer to Mia and she is more mature compared to Nisha who has no clue what the baby needs. Everytime he cries she thinks it's feeding time and she doesn't have the patience to calm him down when he's upset. She only likes him when he's comfortable and playful.

I pick up my phone lazily and place it on my ear. My father's voice jolts me upright and awake. Elio starts fussing around and I go back to rocking him.

"The crazy ex was spotted by my men somewhere around Mentone earlier this evening."

Mentone, Mentone that's Alabama!

"What? That's Alabama, father."

"I know. He is really crazy. My men are after him. I am on my way home."

My father is on his way. To Atlanta.

"You're coming home?"

"Yes son. Your mother and I are coming home. Separately of course but we'll both be home by morning."

Wow. This is new. Christopher Harrington is really a changed man.

"What are we going to do now?"

"I am going to raise hell on the Millers. You are going to wait for your wife to come back home. Take care of Elio."

"Thank you so much father."

"You don't need to thank me. I am doing this only because you have manned up and taken responsibility."

Is my father trying to say that he's proud of me?

He hangs up the phone even before I can say something else.

I get up feeling a surge of energy I didn't know still existed in me. My wifey is coming home.

Y'vania's POV

I manage to disentangle myself from his arms carefully doing my best not to wake him up. He is fast asleep as he usually does after lovemaking. I knew that was his weak spot and I used it to my advantage. I feel so dirty and disgusting and guilty for cheating on Daniel but it was either that or this continued  torture.

I manage to pick my dress from the chair and take out the house keys from his pants pockets. I don't care about the car keys. Tiptoeing naked I manage to open up the door and dress up on my way out.

Just as I step out on the grassy ground I hear a gunshot from the back of the house.

I get down on the ground, something sharp cuts my foot and I scream in pain then cover my mouth to avoid being heard in case the one shooting is  Anthony.

It's very dark and cloudy I can't see anything apart from the dark water from the lake stretching far beyond. A deep voice comes out from the dark. Definitely not Anthony's.

"Who is there?"

Someone is here for me.

I get up screaming for help, running blindly towards the voice. I stumble on something hard and fall flat on my stomach feeling a sharp pain on my lower abdomen.