The Apocalypse: Life After Death

Chapter 4: Lips Of An Angel

"We need back up at the south wall, we're surrounded, I have the Vice Presidents sister. I repeat, I have the Vice Presidents sister." I hear over the radio. I know that it's Jace's voice. He's Kyla's driver. I feel myself about to panic when Ashley grabs my hands.

"I'm sure she's fine. I'll send everyone out." She tells me before grabbing her radio off the desk.

"Carmen, come in."

"Go for Carmen."

"Switch to four." Is all she says then changes her radio to a different station. She doesn't want this information to go out over the main station.

"Sound the alarm, we have a breach at the south wall."

"Right away, Vice President."

"And Carmen, my sister is there could you..."

"Of course." Carmen says quickly before we hear her yelling for her men to gear up, then the radio goes out.

"I need to go to her Ashley, I need to-"

"Angel, she's--"

"No." I cut her off, shaking my head. "We had a fight this morning, we had a fight and I, I didn't even tell her that I loved her before I left."

"I'm sure she knows that you love her, and whatever this fight was about, I know you two will get through it like you always do."

I sigh and drop my head, "I don't know." I shrug. Kyla thinks this fight is about her telling Spencer something she shouldn't have, but it's much more than that. "I caught Kyla and Eric kissing when he was here last. She doesn't know that I know." The shocked look she has right now tells me she didn't know either.

"Angel, I don't know what to--"

"There's nothing to say. I've been waiting for Kyla to tell me, for her to explain why she did it. But she just hasn't. Am I not what she wants anymore, I overheard Eric telling her that he can give her things that I can't and he's right. Everyone's rebuilding, the world is going to go back to the way it once was and that means Kyla may want kids and I can't do that for her. I can't--"

"Stop it!" Ashley grabs me by my shoulders and pulls me to face her. "When we first met I didn't peg you for the self pity type." I force out a small laugh. I'm definitely not one for self pity. "My sister loves you Angel, more than I've ever seen her love anyone or anything. I'm sure that whatever is going on in that crazy little brain of hers, she just needs to figure it out first before coming to talk to you. She doesn't want Eric. She gave him up for you, remember."

"Yeah but he wasn't so..."

"Muscular? Tanned? Toned? Handsome?"

"Yeah." I purse my lips and shake my head. "That's definitely not helping.

"Sorry." She says quickly with an smile. "All I'm saying is that she doesn't want all those things," I scrunch my face and tilt my head. "I mean, she doesn't want them from a man."

"Better."

"She wants them from you, Angel. She loves you. She wants to make hypothetical babies with you."

I chuckle and nod my head because I know that Ashley's right. I just need to talk to Kyla about what I saw and go from there. "Exactly." Ashley reads my mind and I stare at her, a bit creeped out.

"Um... that's not normal." I pop a brow.

"I didn't read your mind, Angel." She chuckles and shakes her head. "You said that last part out loud."

"Oh." I let out a sigh of relief and smile.

"Vice Presidents come in." We hear Carmen's voice over the radio. She sounds calm, that's a relief.