The Boy in Black

T W E N T Y - N I N E

This chapter is the last chapter to this story. It's a little, no, it's VERY intense towards the end, something pretty tough to write. But I hope you guys enjoy.
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She sat in Jaxon's driveway for what seemed like forever. She squeezed her hands into tight fists until they were red to keep them from shaking, but it did not work, for her entire body was shaking uncontrollably. She put his journal back where she found it, and she planned to act like she had never read it. She planned to act neutral, which was very difficult considering the man she believed to love her was a lying and manipulative psychopath.

"Mattie?" She heard Jaxson's voice erupt from outside of the car. Her eyes darted in his direction, and she tried her best to conceal the fear in her eyes. He opened the car door for her and grasped her arm, pulling her out a bit forcefully.

"You weren't wearing a seatbelt?" He asked, anger lacing his voice.

"No- I just took it off before you came out." Mattie lied, her voice a bit shaky.

He looked her up and down as if trying to figure out what she was thinking, what she was feeling. She watched his hand as he removed it from her arm, and she froze.

"W-What happened to your hands?" Her voice was visibly afraid now, and at that moment all she could think about was her mother and if she was alright.

He looked down at his bruised hands that were crusty with dark, dry blood.

"Punched my mirror." He stated, clenching his fists together before wincing a bit in pain.

"Oh."

"Yeah. Let's get inside." Jaxson grasped her hand and led her to the front door of his home. The inside of his house was still dark, not many lights on just the way he liked it. It was also cold, so cold that one might think ghosts haunted the place.

Perhaps the people Jaxson have murdered, Mattie thought, feeling tears about to spill down her cheeks. She tried so hard to fight them, but just couldn't. They fell quickly down her face, warming her cold, pale cheeks. And when Jaxson noticed, he became afraid; Afraid of what she might know.

"Baby, what the hell's wrong?" He asked, cupping her face with his large and bruised hands. His eyes were full of concern and fear, but that changed quickly when he heard Mattie's reply:

"I'm pregnant."

Time stood still at that moment, and the world seemed like it had become silent. His hands dropped from her face, and his eyes widened in fake surprise, but he wasn't fooling anyone.

"Is that where you were?" He asked before sitting on the couch, trying his best to conceal his usual smug smile.

She nodded in reply, swallowing a lump in her throat that kept rising each time she saw Jaxson trying not to smile.

He planned this, she thought with anger boiling in her body. He fucking planned this.

"It's a miracle!" He yelled before putting his head in his hands and laughing. She became angrier.

"A miracle?" She spat, stepping closer to him.

"Don't you see? I thought it was impossible for me to have a baby, but we proved them wrong huh?" He stood up and brought Mattie in for a hug. "We're having a baby Mattie, a baby."

They stood in silence, Jaxson being the only one interacting in the hug.

"Aren't you happy?" He asked, releasing his hold from her to see her face. He placed his hand on her belly.