*Read "Sweet, Sweet, Calliope" first*
Drug Kingpin's Michael and Caleb figure they have everything they ever wanted and for Caleb that rang true, but for Michael he was missing the one thing he had turned away from five years prior; Caleb's little...
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I held his body in my arms feeling the thick blood coat my hands and slide through the cracks of my fingers. I pulled his body closer so that we were cheek to cheek to try and convince myself that he would make it. That he would be okay. And his warm body was enough to give me hope, but his stiffness told me otherwise.
Salty tears escaping from my eyes coated his face and my throat burned in anticipation of more tears. I sat on my knees, rocking back and forth with the top half of his limp body in my arms. I shook my head, bringing one hand up to wipe the tears from my face as I pulled back from him. I knew I'd have blood on my face but I didn't care.
How could he do this to me? Why did he think it was okay to leave?
I looked down at his wide-open eyes before bringing my free hand up to slowly shut them as I whispered, "you promised."
"You promised you would never leave me."
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"Calliope?"
That voice snapped me right out of dreamland and back into reality where I stood at the nurses station on the ICU floor with a patients chart in my hand and a full pack of saltine crackers next to me. I looked in the direction of the voice that called for me, turning around once I was aware of my surroundings.
Hassan.
I'd been dodging him ever since he dropped the bomb on me that he knew I was pregnant. And the small part where he thought that he was the father.
I tried to look and sound a lot more lively than I was actually feeling. After the set of nightmares I'd been having for the last couple days I was definitely on edge. Not to also mention the fact that Caleb and Michael were walking around free men for the time being. Everything was becoming way too much and I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
"Hey," I smiled, turning back to grab the chart and my crackers.
"Hey?" He laughed, walking beside me as I walked off from the nurses station. "That's it?"
"Um... yeah. Just... hey."
The chuckle he let out sounded forced and I couldn't really blame him. I was playing games like I didn't know what he really wanted to talk about.
"Calliope can we talk?" He asked behind me as I stopped in front of the staff-only elevators. "Please?"
I sighed and turned around to face him even though I really didn't want to. He looked desperate, almost as if he was on the verge of pleading with me to have a one-on-one conversation with me. That only made me feel worse. I'd already been beating myself up lately for cheating on Hassan in the first place. He was a guy who I didn't deserve.
