Unconditional (Book Two)

26. Emotional Mixture

Jim's POV

I stand there, still and motionless, fixing my menacing and raging stare at the woman in front of me. Flames ignite out of my nostrils, as I breath out. Never have I in my life felt this amount and enormousness of anger that I can't even describe. What I heard....I heard everything....and I still can't get to believe it myself. I knew Karen was hiding something, I knew she was hiding something that involves me...though I never really imagined that madness was actually true. All that madness that I built up about Amelie and I...it's true. Now, the reason why I am separated from her is because of Colin and Karen...and she is MY WIFE! Since I saw Colin with my sensitive eyes I knew...I knew he wasn't someone I could trust. I can't help but let an uncountable amount of rage in, one I've never felt before. It fires my nerves, explodes in my eyes. But then who the hell are Colin and Karen?! Why in the world can't I remember Amelie as my wife??!!! My wedding??!!! How I met her??!! WHAT DID THEY DO TO US??!!!

"Mayim," I start with my voice shaking in anger, and my eyes fixed on Karen. "Can you please leave me alone with this unknown person for a moment?"

Mayim nods once, wearing a serious stare. "Sure. I'll be upstairs." She walks past Karen with grace as she paces up the steep mountain, and disappears with the bang of a door.

There is dead silence in the room we're standing in. Karen's eyes reflect fear, her body tense, her forehead covered in cold sweat. Her voice trembles like an earthquake as she tries to speak. "J-Ji—"

"DON'T YOU DARE...speak a word." I try to calm the volume of my voice down with the exhale of a breath when I interrupt her shaking voice. I can't even describe with words how I feel right now, to know that—for what I heard—Amelie is forced to go back to Colin because he has her threatened, he promises to kill me if she stays with me. I really can't believe she is sacrificing herself like that, though it tears me in wrath that I can't remember anything for some reason, and I don't know what Colin is capable of doing to her...or making her do, as I recall she mentioned she was forced. I am still confused about what happened. I still don't understand how the heck I lost my memories or why we are separated, who these people are, and why Amelie and Mayim know when I don't.

"Karen...." I bring my hand to the back of my head, and look down to the marble floor. I can't even get to give a description of what I want to say, I can't find the words, I can't find a way of concentration, of understanding. "Why?" I continue, dropping my arm. "Why? I.......I can't even get to understand—"

"YOU LIED TO ME! YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO WASHINGTON WHEN YOU WENT LOOKING FOR AMELIE!"

I stay looking at her in complete unbelief and anger, without being able to even process what the heck she just said. How dare she rant about that after everything I just heard she's done! "Are you seriously going to start shouting to me about that when I just found out everything you've done to my marriage?!" I start in rage. "You're unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. I went looking for my wife when I didn't even know she is my wife!!!"

"SHE IS NOT YOUR WIFE—"

"OF COURSE SHE IS MY WIFE! I knew it all along! Since you were so paranoid about that house I knew there was something you were hiding. I was this close to telling Amelie what I thought we were in New York until Colin most probably managed to manipulate Mayim into showing me that marriage certificate."

"Oh so you knew Amelie was your wife?" she asks with her arms crossed.

"IS my wife, and yes I had an idea. I had a theory, because if you think I'm stupid then you're wrong. Now I understand why I fell in love with her so quickly, why I felt like I knew her when I hadn't even seen her at all in my life." The rage in my voice is obvious and completely showable, and this is a way I'd never really listened to me speak. Just as this is a mad and completely angry way I'd never seen Karen look at me, immediately after I said I fell in love with Amelie. Now I know she's always hated her. "Karen, I want my memories back!"