The One That Got Away

Part 20

"I'm going back to the house,"
I called out to Dominic from the bottom of the stairs.

"You want me take you?"
He replied from the other room.

"Nah I'll be back in a bit."
I replied and walked outside to the welcoming fresh breeze, and the glare of the sun.

Once inside the Rang Rover I rummaged through my purse, finding my favorite black sunglasses putting them on, I started up the SUV, my hangover was bad, but not as bad as it should have been..... Maybe that had something to do with all the sex?

I couldn't stop thinking about everything, how he looked when I said yes to him, how he still kept our old place, how he never stopped loving me like I never stopped loving him.

I didn't feel the guilt anymore of Alec though? I mean I'll always love him but in a weird way..... I'm happy for him.

I check my phone while stopped at a red light to see I have several missed calls from Shelly, and few from Alec along with a mountain of texts I refuse to read.

Putting my phone away, I directed my attention back to the road till I finally pulled into the driveway of my soon to be old house.

I didn't know how to feel walking into a home I helped build, with a man that has been cheating on me for god knows how long?

I touch the creamy colored walls as I made my way to the bedroom, I had to take a deep breath. Looking around I realized we shared a lot of good and bad times in here.....

He cried with me on this floor when I got the call my father died, he made love to me on this wall when he opened up his business, I will never say he didn't love me, but our love started to die along time ago.

The love I felt for Dom.... That was something completely different.
Oh god that was something nobody could take away, did he treat me bad yes.... But that was due to the abomination that was named Victor.

I blame him and Dante for destroying my life.... I lost my baby because of Dante.

Then I thought of what Dominic said,
"My last job will be Dante."

I didn't know how to feel about that.

Pushing all of those thoughts to the side, I focused on packing most of my stuff into the over sized Louis Vuitton suit cases.

"Will she be okay Doctor?" I heard a women say softly it sounded like she was crying.

Mom?

"Her vitals are stable, she took a pretty nasty hit to the head due to the fall. But we're expecting a full recovery for her."

I heard a man reply to my worried mother.

"What about the baby?" Another man asked I heard sadness in his voice.

Daddy?

"I'm sorry Mr. Dawson we tried everything she didn't make it."

Then like a lightbulb going off, I remembered everything that happened.
I tried to move my hands to my belly but I couldn't move.

I couldn't do anything!

I felt the most unbearable pain crashing over me I have never felt such a hurt like this before.

My heart was breaking.

I wanted to get up and run to my mother, I wanted to search for Dominic I wanted to cry and scream..... But I couldn't do nothing but feel the pain of losing my kid sister... and the only other thing that mattered to me, my child.

I heard my mother crying, and my father trying to sooth her down.

That's when I let the complete darkness engulfed me in a mind numbing sleep.

"I'm not suppose to be here..... I just couldn't leave town without knowing your okay?"

Leaving town? Who was leaving town, Where was they going, why was they going!

I willed my eyes to open, but they refused to obey. I then recognized the deep voice after a moment...... I knew who it was even without seeing the face I still loved.

Dominic.

"I'll never stop loving you rabbit,"
He sounded sad like he hasn't slept in days.

"Please open your eyes please, I need to see those beautiful soulful eyes,"

I tried..... I tried so hard but I just couldn't, I heard him exhale a long deep breath and continue talking.

"Shay I'm going to leave you alone, this was all my fault," I heard tears in his voice I tried to open my eyes again but my body just wouldn't let me.

"I'm sorry for all the ugliness I bought into your life.... If I only knew the monster I would have become..... Well I would of never saved you that day at the park."  He chuckled a little at the end

I wanted to hold him and tell him I was the one to be sorry, I wanted to hold him and hold our daughter.
I wanted to be the happy couple I always dreamt about.

But I guess I was wrong.

I started to feel the sleepiness creeping up on me, I willed myself to stay up.

"I love you my little white rabbit, be strong take over the world, marry someone who deserves you have a normal life with a white picket fence and everything-"

He was saying till he got cut off.

"Sir you can't be in here, visiting hours are ov-" some women was saying till he cut her off.

Noooo please nooo I wanted to shout.

"I was just leaving."

And that's when the blackness took me back under.

The front door slammed shut, whisking me away from the corners of my mind.

"Great Alec must be here!" I muttered under my breath rolling my eyes.

I braced myself for the lovely argument that waited ahead.

I placed my suitcases on the floor and slowly stalked out of the bedroom, only thing I could hear is the sound of my heels click clacking against the marble floor.

I don't know why but as I was making my way to the front room, I had this sickening feeling like the house was filled with tension, maybe it's because I'm nervous the liquor finally wore off.....

"Hey there gorgeous."

My heart sank, I haven't heard that voice in  twelve long years.... And I could have gone my whole life without hearing it again.

My body started to shake, I wanted to cry, I wanted to hurt the man behind that voice, I wanted to run because that voice was nothing good or welcoming.

That voice belonged to the most hated man in my heart, the man that broke my spirit..... The man that truthfully destroyed my life.

Dante........