Higher Love

Chapter Thirteen

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Can't change it,

can't make this nightmare go away

Cause I don't even sleep,

I'm wide awake

*Felix Jaehn - Cut the Cord*

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Emily's POV

I wake up in my bed with a terrible headache. I really don't want to open my eyes so I just tap the side where Bradley should be, but the place beside me is empty and cold.

Maybe he is downstairs already? I throw on some clothes and go down. But it's silent. I go to the kitchen and there is a note on the counter. Ok, he just went home for new clothes, I'm relieved.

I worried that he left after what I told him yesterday evening. Urgh, I really told him that I never stopped loving him...DRUNK... that's not the way you should tell someone such important things. But it's done and I can't do anything about it.

So I grab the pills, swallow them with a lot of water and try to eat something. I'm barely hungry, but Bradley made breakfast for me, so I eat a few bites. I go over to the livingroom and lay down on my couch. I cover myself with a blanket, switch on the TV and just wait for my headache to go away and for Bradley to come back.

I fall asleep, I don't know for how long, when it bangs on my door.

Bang bang

I open my eyes.

Bang bang

It took me a second to realize what is happening right now.

Bang

I slowly get up.

"Yes yes, I'm coming, one moment." I open the door. "Bradl...."

But it's not Bradley on my doorstep. Instead of Bradley there stands a man in a black suit.

"Dr. Adams?" he asks. Where the f*ck did he know my name from?

"Who wants to know that?"

"I'm Agent Hamillton, Scott Hamillton. I need you to come with me right now!" I take a step back in my hallway. My heart beats fast now, fear is rising in me.

"Show me you ID!"

His hands grab in his inside pocket and he flips out an ID card from the MI6. My eyes widen, my fear gets bigger. " MI6? What did I do???"

"Nothing Dr. Adams, this is about Mr. Davis!"

"Oh my god, what happened?"

"I will tell you everything on our way, please just go and pack a few things you need! We really need to hurry!"

I'm still concerned and I try to reach my phone, laying on a dresser in my hallway.

"Dr. Adams!" He raises his voice and starts to follow me in the hallway. "In a case like this, I should tell you something only you and Mr. Davis knows about!"

I stop moving: "And what should this be?"

Agent Hamillton stops in his tracks: "Well..." He looks down to his feet. I'm confused, what is he trying to say?

"Well, that there is a birthmark under your..." He takes a deep breath. "Under your breast in the shape of a strawberry." He says so fast I couldn't stop him.

"Oh my god!"

"I'm sorry, but that was the only way to make you believe me."

I just nod.