The One That Got Away

Part 18

My eyes fluttered open and I immediately shut them, the sun was beaming through.

I turned to the left to shield myself from the brightness, when I noticed Dominic wasn't in bed?

Yawning and stretching, my body ached in all the right places, I started to smile at the thought of last night.
Swinging my legs off the bed, I stood and scanned the room that once belonged to me, remembering the old details to a place I use to love.

It's been twelves years since I've been in this place.

It wasn't homey like mine and Alec's home, this was modern, contemporary, open with very few colors.

The bedroom walls a stark white, he replaced our old furniture with new black and steel contemporary furniture, he took out the carpet and added beautiful white and grey marble.

Our old pictures still scattered the room.

A young me smiling on the beach in my red bikini, black hair in a high ponytail throwing sand at the camera.

One of Dom in his black suit, sitting on the white sofa holding a tiny picture.
Then it hit me I remembered taking this picture, I took it without him knowing he was holding the first picture of our baby.

He stared at that picture for hours, he was so lost into it...

I sighed as I swipe a tear away.
I traced the edges of the frame as I walked out of the room.

I looked at the floor, he must have replaced the white carpet with beige?
I couldn't help but laugh, as I noticed the cantaloupe colored walls still stood the same, we had such a huge fight over that paint.

He wanted red, I told him this wasn't scarface.

The upstairs wasn't to big, just two bedrooms with two bathrooms, he actually surprised me with this place.

We was looking for something bigger once we found out about the baby, our old apartment was only a one bedroom.
We looked for weeks, when he came home one day with papers and a key....

I became so caught up with my thoughts, I ended up walking into a room I never wanted to see again.

The room was completely empty.
The pink walls still remained, the white carpet was taken out, the furniture, the pictures.
Everything.

It was supposed to be a baby nursery, but I turned it into my sisters room.
When we found her at the high school that night.

Every emotion washed over me, I missed her so much, I still couldn't believe she was gone....
Thinking of my sister always felt like a bullet to the heart.

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I need to get Jenna and leave.
These people are trying to kill me, I don't have a clue if Dominic is aware of any of this, but I don't have time to sit around and find out.

What just happened back at Dante's.... My head was still reeling I silently thanked the good lord the man was a sick basterd.
Because if he wasn't I'd be dead right now.

My head was spinning, I don't know what he gave me but I wasn't stopping till I got my sister.

I pulled the Range Rover into the driveway, limped off the car, I stumbled to my side barely steading myself from falling to the pavement.

I fumbled with the keys my vision blurring out, my body began to shake.
I finally got the door open and I stumbled into the condo.