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Chapter Nine
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Chapter Ten
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She turned away from me. “Well, you have to. After tonight, I’m not coming anymore. It’s too much of a risk. Ellie hates me too much and she will be suspicious of you.”
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Chapter Eleven
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“Dal,” My voice was quiet being sure not to wake Ellie. This has to go off perfect, or everything is ruined. The guys can’t even know this is happening tonight. I shook my son. He woke up looking at me oddly. I pressed my finger to my lips telling him to stay quiet.
I picked him up wrapping a blanket around his tiny body. I took one more look in the bedroom to make sure that Ellie was still asleep before moving out of the room. I’ve already turned off all the alarms and Ved made sure all the doors were open before he went to Java’s room for whatever they’re going to do. I don’t really want to know.
“Daddy?” Dal asked as we stepped outside of the building. “Where are we going?”
I quickly ran to the nearby woods before answering. “Remember that nice woman that I told you about?”
“Oh, Dala’s mother?” he replied before laying his head against my shoulder.
I laughed. “Yeah, Dala’s mother.” I pulled the blanket around him tighter. “She is going to take care of you for awhile. Are you okay with that?”
He nodded. “Are you going to be mean to mommy?”
“No. Why would I do that?” I asked with a concerned voice. Of course I was going to be mean to his mother, but I can’t let him know that.
“Because she’s mean. She told me that that I wasn’t allowed to be with you alone.” He raised his head up from my shoulders. “I don’t like mommy. She yelled at me for saying that I missed you.”
I stopped walking to look at him. “Well, your mommy loves you a lot. She just didn’t want you to get hurt.”
“What about you? She wanted to hurt you by not letting you see me.” He asked. This child is growing up way too fast and becoming way too perceptive.
I laid his head against my shoulder again before being to walk again. “Well, Ebony is going to be taking care of you. She is going to take you to be with other kids your age. So that you have someone to play with. You need friends your age.”
He sighed. “Daddy, don’t you mean you are taking me to my brother and sister. I know about them. Remember the dreams?” I nodded starting to get frustrated. I want to tell him the truth about all this, but I can’t because he is too young and he is making it hard for me to lie by being so perceptive about everything.
“Jack!” Ebony’s stage whisper gave away her location. I walked over to see her leaning against a tree. “I was beginning to think that you weren’t coming.”
“Ellie wouldn’t fall asleep.” I stated letting Dal touch the ground. I pulled the backpack off my back getting out his shoes. “Could you help me?” I picked him up again so that Ebony could get his shoes on him.
She took his little boots putting them on his feet and tying them. I handed him over to her. “Dal, my name’s Ebony.”
“I know.” He answered looking back to me. “Daddy, when are you going to be home?”
“In a few minutes, but you are going with Ebony.”
“No.” He shook his head vigorously. “When are you going to come back to the mall with us?”
I looked to Ebony and then back to him. “Soon. I promise. Just go with Ebony and do everything that she tells you to. I’ll be there as soon as I can.”
“Promise not to let mommy get me. She doesn’t want me to be anywhere near you.” He pleaded as Ebony let him stand on the ground taking his hand.
I put my hand on his head. “I promise.”
I turned to walk away, but I couldn’t help one more look at my partial family. The stood watching me leave, holding hands. I waved at them, blowing a kiss before turning away and walking off. It’ll be awhile before I see either one of them again.
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I hurried back to Headquarters slipping back into the bed unnoticed by anyone. Ellie never noticed I was gone and we were safe. For now. How long will it be before Ellie realizes that no one kidnapped her son. It was, in fact, his father that purposely took him. She may be evil, but she’s not stupid. She can figure this out before long. We just have to attack before she finds out.
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“JACK!!!!” Ellie’s voice woke me from my dreams of my wife and our three children having a picnic on the shore of the creek at the farm. “DAL’S GONE!” I got out of bed rushing into the room as if I were afraid for my ‘only’ son’s life. His bed was empty and looking as if there had been a struggle. Now that I look at it again, I should really be an artist. It looks real. “What are we going to do? Who’s got him?” She fell into my arms sobbing.
She seemed genuinely concerned that he might be injured. This would be the first time that she has actually cared about Dal. I swear, he called Java momma for the first month he spoke.
“Calm down. We’re not going to find him by getting hysterical.” She pulled away looking at me like I was crazy. “I know, we will find him. Let me get Ved and Java and we will go down to the control room to look at security cameras.”
She pulled away pushing me towards the door. “What are you waiting for? Our son could be anywhere!”
I hit the com button on my communicator. “Ved Yates and Java Harris to the control room NOW!” the urgency in my voice shocked even me. I sound like I actually believe that some stranger took Dal.
I started running down the hallway holding Ellie’s hand. We reached the control room moments before Ved and Java arrived with their clothes barely on.
Ved saluted me. I nodded at him telling him that he was at ease. “Dal has been taken. I need you to help me go over all the security tapes and measures from last night. I have to know who’s taken him.” Ved nodded quickly moving to the desk.
He pushed a button playing the tapes from last night. He started a little while before I took Dal, but nothing ever showed up. He had patched in a loop of the night before at the same time. Then there was static. Perfectly added so that Ellie would think that something happened to the camera. That would be when I zapped the camera outside the building on my way back at the exact time the loop was ending.
“They knocked out the camera!” Ellie exclaimed moving over to where Java took her into a hug. “What are we going to do now?”
“Ved, what have you seen on the security codes?”
He hit a few keys. “They were turned off last night at about… twelve fourty-five p.m.”
“That was hours ago!” Java exclaimed.
I looked at her with a warning glance. “I’ll gather some of my men and we will search the city for him. I am sure that our little visit might have angered some locals.” I stated winning a nod from Ellie.
She moved from Java to me. “Go now! Find him and bring him back to me.”
With that, she ran from the room with Java quickly following her. I turned to Ved. “Get properly dressed and meet us at the woods in ten minutes.” Ved nodded leaving the room.
“Jay Yates and Jordan Thompson Report to the training area in five minutes.”*~~*~~*~~*~~*
Chapter Twelve
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We reached the final clearing before the mall at noon. The sun was high overhead
causing a heat that made each of us quiet. Ved and Jay silently led the group
while Jordan and I brought up the rear. The day seemed to coming out beautiful
despite the rocky beginning. Since leaving the Techno camp, every mile that
passed brought greater and greater joy to me. Soon, my family’ll surround me.
I'll have my two sons, daughter, and nephew at my side. I'll also be reunited by
my soul mate. The only woman that has ever given me a reason to step above what
I am.
"Jack," I looked to Jordan. "What am I going to do about
Amber?" He kicked absently at a nearby rock.
"You're going to walk up to her, take her in your arms and show her how
much you love her." he looked at me oddly. "What? Just because I am a
general and your geeky uncle you think that I know nothing about women?" he
laughed. "See, everything will be okay. Just show her what you feel. She
won't be able to resist you if she is really in love."
He nodded. "What about the baby? What if she has already killed it?"
his eyes returned to the ground as he thought of the fact his child might be
dead.
I put my hand on his shoulder. "The baby is fine. The girls broke her of
her wish." He smiled up at me. "As a matter of fact, I hear that she
is looking forward to being a mother again. She wants a girl."
"I'd like a daughter too." He smiled as he regained his silence.
"Hey!" Ved's voice rose over everything. "I think I see the mall
over the trees." He took one last look at us before taking off in a run.
Sometimes its hard to believe that he is really twenty-one. He disappeared
around the corner and out of our sight, but not out of our hearing as he cried
out in pain.
We all quickly ran to his rescue. We turned the corner to find the Techno Army
lined up in perfect little rows in front of the mall. Ved was lying unconscious
in front of Java. His head was bleeding heavily. Jay fell to his brother's side.
"What's going on? Why are you here?" I asked coming face to face with
Java.
She snickered. "Did you hear that Ellie? He thinks he tricked us!" She
walked over to the deceitful blonde woman. "He really thought that he could
just take your son and no one would think twice because he is the mighty
general."
I stood stock still against their verbal attack. Ellie came down from the steps
on the side of the mall. She sidled up to me. "You were never that
brilliant. Maybe with computers, but with human beings, you were always
hopeless." She brought her lips to mine. Her tongue licked over my lips.
I pushed her away roughly. "Don't touch me! You have no right to touch
me!"
She walked towards me again. This time, she pushed her hand lovingly through my
hair and brought her mouth to my ear. She licked at the rim of it. "But you
were my little ****. Always f.ucking me just like I needed it." She pulled
back with her hand still in my hair. "You belong to me. You always have.
And I don't like it when my toys try to leave me." She pulled her hand back
slapping me hard with the back of her hand. As she did, the sharp edge of her
zapper cut my face across my cheek.
I reached up to touch it, feeling the blood. I looked over at Jordan who was
standing at Jay's side. Jay now held his brother's limp body in his arms. The
inanimate man seemed so frail as if he wasn't taller than his brother. He seemed
as if he were dead.
"You know, I welcomed Jay, Ved, and Jordan as if they were kings. And you
all betrayed me. We could have all made a great team. I had big plans for you
all." she walked over to Jay running her hand across Ved's body, Jay's
chin, and finally stopping on Jordan.
He stood still as I had. He looked almost like my twin standing there in his
uniform with a defiant look on his face. She must have noticed this because,
Ellie looked back at me before kissing him roughly. He fought against her, but
she held his head against hers. She pulled back to reveal the bloody lip that
she gave him. "I had real big plans for Jordan. Two men that looked so good
as you two." She ran her hand down his chest to his pants. She let her hand
stop on the front of his pants. "I never got a chance to see if the
endowment was a family trait." She punched him causing him to double over
in pain. "Men are so weak." She directed this comment to Java who
stood behind Jay.
Java walked over to Ellie. "I think it is just these men. Come on, two of
them have been tricked by Ebony to believe that she loves them. The other two
are just fools." The two women shared an evil laugh.
"Speaking of Ebony," Ellie began before looking around. "Where
did she get off to?"
Ebony walked out from behind one of the lines of soldiers. "Here I
am." She sauntered up to Ellie in the way she would when we were younger. I
recognized it as her power walk. "I see you have captured your pets."
She laughed looking at me.
My face fell from the defiant look to a look of defeat. The one woman that I
thought I could trust had turned on me. She was working with Ellie.
"What's wrong Jack? Not happy to see me? I thought you loved me. I thought
you wanted to take care of our family. Oh no!" She turned to her sister
with mock sadness. "He doesn't care for me!" Fake sobs erupted from
her.
I could only look on in disgust. I stood still not giving them the satisfaction
of causing me to let go of my cool.
"Jack, I must say." Ebony came at me swaying her hips. "I am
disappointed in you. I really thought that you loved me. I even convinced Ellie
to let me have you all to myself." She winked at me licking her lips and
playing with her wedding ring. She came to me kissing me roughly. I parted my
lips unconsciously, which allowed her to slip her tongue into my mouth. I felt
something plastic against the inside of my cheek.
She pulled away from me with another wink and a smile. "See, you can't deny
me even in the face of demise." She laughed awfully.
Ellie laughed with her. "I think we should take these men inside the mall
with the others." She pulled Jordan as she walked closer to the mall
entrance. Java pushed Jay along.
Chapter Thirteen
The soldiers I once ordered threw me in the room. My head hit the wall hard
almost causing me to swallow the plastic object that Ebony had pushed into my
mouth. As soon as I was sure they were out of sight, I spit out the object. It
was a plastic capsule with what seemed like paper inside. I quickly broke the
capsule letting the paper fall into my hands. I opened it to find a message
inside.
Play Along. I have a Plan. Ebony.
So, Ebony really wasn’t going back to her evil ways after all. She’s playing
a game. The question is, is the game on me or on Ellie? I won’t know until I
get a chance to speak with her. Until then, I can only hope that Ebony is still
the loving wife that she is now and not the power hungry bit.ch that she once
was.
“Jack,” Salene’s voice was low and scared. “Ebony’s called for you.”
I looked up to see her shuffling in the room. She leaned against the wall
looking at me with unsure eyes.
“What’s wrong?” I asked jumping to my feet and coming to her side. “Are
you okay? Is Pride okay? The kids?”
“They’re fine.” She looked up at me. “Ebony’s not to happy with you.
She says that you never really lost your memory and now you are going to pay for
cheating on her with Ellie. And Ellie, she’s allowing her to torture you! I
don’t understand! I thought they both loved you!” She started to cry.
I took her in my arms allowing the slightly older woman cry on my shoulder.
“Well, neither one of them were ever too good at sharing their toys. I guess I
turned out to be their personal G.I. Joe or something.”
She pulled back to look at me. “If Ebony does anything to hurt you, we’ll
take her out along with Ellie.”
“I know.” I stated pushing her back a little. “I have to go to her. She is
after all the woman that I love. I just have to hope that she loves me too much
to hurt me.”
Salene kissed me on the cheek before running from my room crying. I watched
after her for a ways before looking to myself in the full-length mirror by the
door to the room that I was in. I smoothed the wrinkles in my lycra top and made
my jeans fall down on my hips a little more like I knew that both Ebony and
Ellie liked as it showed a sliver of my black underwear. I’ve never been able
to use sexuality to my advantage before, but there are three crazed women out
there that think that I am attractive, so I have to do something to save my
life. It’s not like I haven’t already slept with all of them.
Finally, I got the nerve to leave the room. My nerves were still shaking like
they had been the day that Bray sent me to spy on Ebony. She has complete power
over me. Back then all she could do was injure my body, but now, she can injure
my soul and my heart with her words and her actions.
I stopped in front of Ebony’s door. She was the only person in the room and
she had her back turned to the door. I slowly crept in trying not to let her
hear that I was there.
“Jack,” She didn’t turn around. “Close the curtain. This is between you
and me.”
I did as I was told letting my boots hit the floor heavily now. As I turned back
around, I noticed she was wearing the white dress she was wearing the night that
I lost my virginity to her. My face fell. She looks so beautiful and angelic.
Especially since her hair is out of the braids. “Why are you wearing that
dress? Are you pretending that you actually cared about me?”
She stood up from the bed and walked over to me. Her hand reached up to the side
of my face. I hit it away. “Jack, Didn’t you read the note?”
“I did.” I moved closer to the door. “And I was wondering if the plan was
on me or Ellie. Ebony, I know how you were. You would go through with a plan
that lasts six years.”
“Six years?” She looked at me with confusion.
“Yeah that was when you started getting closer to me. I should have known that
it was too good to be true. You wouldn’t go after some computer geek like
me.”
She stepped closer to me again. This time when I stepped back, I hit the wall.
“That wasn’t planned. I love you. I fell in love with you. And I thought you
loved me, but you can’t trust me even now!” She moved away again. This time
she was crying. “I thought that when we got married you really meant it. Then
you diasappered.”
“I did disappear on purpose. Ellie tricked me.” I explained as she continued
to cry. “I wanted to be here with my new wife.”
“Well,” She sat on the bed again. “Ellie saw me in the woods three years
ago and told me that you came willingly because you wanted to rule your own
tribe. That you had started the Technos again.”
“What?”
“She said that you made her come with you and that you were holding her with
you. So she asked me to help her.” Ebony looked up at me. “So for the past
three years we have been putting you into reality space with images of me so
that you would come to me and then I could convince the city to take arms
against the Technos.”
“EBONY! I can’t believe that you fell for her talk!” I moved over to sit
next to her.
She looked at her lap with shame. “I can’t either. I just had to have a
reason why you would leave me without a trace. She gave me an explination. The
last time we were in the woods, I realized that everything she said was a lie
and that you actually did have memory loss. I wanted to kill her, but I
couldn’t. She had power over an army to take over the city if I tried. So, I
decided to work against her.”
“I can’t believe that you thought I would do that to you.” Was all that I
could say as I looked at her. Her eyes were so green and guilty.
She closed her eyes. “I’ve never had a good relationship with men. I thought
that you found out I was pregnant and left me. I had to do something to protect
the children. Ellie said that you would come after them and take them away from
me. I didn’t want to lose that part of you.” She broke down into tears.
I’ve never seen her cry like this. I let her sob for a few minutes before
trying to wipe her tears. “I’m so sorry Jack. I just didn’t know what to
do.”
I kissed her lightly. “I know, baby. We’ll figure this Ellie thing out. When
it’s over, be prepared to deal with this little trust issue.” My voice was
cold, cold enough to shock even me. She looked at me with fear. “I still love
you, Ebony. I always will. I just don’t know if I can get over the fact that
you didn’t trust me.” She buried her head in my shoulder again, shaking with
sobs. She kissed at my shoulder through the shirt as little apologies escaped
her lips. I couldn’t help but cry to as I felt her convulse in my arms.
Chapter 14
“And now, you’ll watch as I set them off to contain the rest of the city.”
Ellie shot my way as she stood with Ebony and Java on either side of her. She
smirked at her co-leader. “Ebony,” She turned to my rightful wife. “Deploy
them.”
Ebony nodded to Ellie and stepped forward. She crossed her arms behind her back
and gave the sign language symbol for ‘action.’ Her arms then flew up into a
salute. “Units 3-7 to your stations.” The units of ten teens marched down
the road and between two buildings. “Units 7-10 to your station.” She then
turned around and returned to Ellie’s side.
Ellie nodded to Java to deploy the two original units that had just arrived from
the Techno headquarters.
Ebony looked back to where I was cuffed to the fire escape on the side of the
mall. She nodded then set our plan into motion.
After two months of training her own units she had all the power that she needed
to make a move. They would be loyal to her no matter what.
“I don’t think you want to deploy them yet.” She added as Ellie and Java
were talking.
Java looked at her baby sister with an odd expression. “What do you mean?”
“Well,” She looked over to where the sound of marching could be heard.
“You’ll miss your party!”
Everyone looked up to see her units taking their places completely surrounding
the two remaining units. Ebony’s men raised their Zapper clad arms at the
remaining twenty men. No one was allowed to shoot even a stunning shot, but the
eighty zappers pointed at the twenty men insured that no one would shoot.
Finally, Ebony turned to Java with her Zapper arm raised.
“It’s over big sister.” Ebony stated with a bit of sadness in her voice.
She knows that it’s going to come down to her sister and herself. “Jay,”
she threw over her shoulder without taking her eyes off Java. “Untie Jack.”
Java looked at the blonde man with shock. “He was there the whole time?”
“Yeah,” He answered. “You’ve lost your touch.” He untied me allowing
me to walk over to Ellie.
I reached out taking a strand of her blonde hair. “You thought that you could
confuse her. You took me away from her and my children. You took you chance to
hurt her when she was weak, for that, I’ll hate you forever.” I let go of
the piece of hair. “You kidnapped me, you started a rebel army and then you
attacked the city. For that, you will be punished.” I looked back at the mall
before looking back at her. “You were my first love and the mother of one of
my sons. For that, I’ll make sure you live.” I turned to Jay. “Take her to
the cell.”
“NOOOOO!!!!” I heard come from Ebony and then I heard a zapper fire. A
petite woman with braided hair came flying at me. Her body knocked me down with
dead weight. She didn’t try to attack me. She simply lay against me without
any movement at all.
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“How is she?” I asked as Jay checked her pulse. He didn’t look at me.
“She’s dead isn’t she?” he nodded. “Well, We should give her the
burial that she deserves.” I turned away from him and everyone else in the
room.
Their eyes were burning holes straight through my back. They were waiting for
some kind of emotion to spill forth. They were waiting for me to break like I
would have in the past before Ebony and I taught each other how to live. But, I
won’t give them the satisfaction of seeing me break free from what she taught
me.
I looked at the lifeless body once more before walking away and back to my
children.
I threw the doors open and marched to where I knew my children would be. Jordan
was holding Jackson. Cloe was holding Dala. Brady was holding Dal on her hip.
Everyone stood quietly.
“I want my children.” I stated walking over to Dala. I kissed her on the
forehead. She looks so much like the lifeless woman that I could almost cry.
Both have that long chin and mocha skin. I moved on to Jackson. I kissed his
forehead too. He looked up to me with fear. “It’s okay, son. Nothing to
worry about now. You’re momma’s safe. You don’t have to protect her
anymore.” Finally I stopped on Dal. I took him from Brady after running a hand
over the blonde girl’s hair. “You can stay with Daddy now. Momma won’t be
coming anywhere near you.”
Everyone looked at me with fear. I looked at them with the same expression.
Would everything be able to go back to the way it was with her death happening
like that? Most likely not. Everything will be different from now on.
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Epilouge
“Daddy,” Dala’s voice called from the path just behind me. “We’re
going to be late.” She stood with her hands on her hips. She looked so much
like her mother. Her skin is dark and she’s a little taller than her mother
was at this age, but she’s still has so much beauty that could hardly come
from me.
“Just a minute, baby.” I stated while waving her over. She wrapped her arm
around my waist and I wrapped my arm around her shoulder. “Do you remember you
Aunt Java?”
The fifteen year old child nodded her head. “Barely. She looked a little like
momma, and she told me that you were a bad man.”
I ran my hand over her braids taking one of the blue one in between my thumb and
my forefinger. “I wished you could have known her like she was while were in
the Technos together. She wasn’t always mean. She might have been acting, but
she was the only friend that I had. And she loved your brother as if he were her
own child.”
Dala nodded as she looked up at me. I could see her hazel eyes shining. She
smiled a smile that she obviously gained from me. “Daddy, it’s really time
to go. Jackson’s getting married in two hours!” She bounced a little making
me remember what she looked like as a little five year old sitting on my lap.
“Okay, let’s go. We can’t miss Jackson and Jazmin’s big day can we?”
She shook her head. “Just let me say goodbye to your Aunt Java.”
The teen nodded and ran off down the hill. I watched until she reached where my
son, Dal was waiting for her. Together, the two of them started off for the
mall. I turned my attention back to the grave in front of me.
It was well kept. I made sure that it was weeded and there were always some
flowers growing next to the headstone. Java may have caused a lot of trouble but
she took care of me when everyone turned their back on me. And she is my
sister-in-law. You don’t just forget family; no matter how much Ebony wants
to.
“Java, you meant a lot to me before I remembered my wife. Then I found out you
were family and I meant for now harm to come to you. I wanted you and Ellie to
be taken care of even if you were put behind bars for the rest of your life.
Thank you for keeping Ebony alive. Ellie told us that she wanted to kill her but
you stopped her on many occasions. Today, I have my wife and my children safely
by my side because of you.”
I laid the bouquet of flowers on her grave. “These are the flowers from your
nephew’s wedding. He’s fifteen and getting married. Can you believe that
they are that old? I suspect that I’m gonna be a grandpa before too long. A
grandpa at 34! But Ved and I have decided that Jazmin is pregnant and that is
the reason why they are getting married. Either way, it doesn’t matter.
Jackson loves her with all his heart. He would have married her anyway. As for
your sister, she’s ready for the wedding and the baby that might come soon.
She was asking me for us to have another baby, but I think I might be a little
too old to be chasing children around anymore.” I looked down the hill again.
This time, Brady was standing at the bottom of the hill. “Speaking of chasing
children around, Brady is surprisingly my best friend. She seemed to be the only
person that understood me when I got back from the Technos. I couldn’t connect
with everyone else. They had this image of me and I was different. Brady had no
preconceptions about me. So, even though I’m 12 years older than her, we grew
closer. Know that she is an adult and she understands more of my problems,
we’re better friends. For the last five years, I dunno what I would do without
her. She’s was really there when me and Ebony were having problems with our
relationship. She told me that Lex wasn’t competition and somehow, I believed
her. Those few words caused me and Ebony to get back together. I owe everything
Ebony and I have today to Brady.”
I watched as Brady started to walk up the hill with her sandals in her hand. Her
long blonde hair flowed over her shoulders in ringlets. Her smile was one that
was given to her by her mother and her eyes were like clear water. I suppose
they came from her father. She walked over to me and took my right hand.
“Your daughter ordered me to fetch you.” She stated with a pout. “Can you
believe that she ordered me? You need to teach your daughter to respect her
elders!” Brady stompt her foot down lading on my booted one and she hurt her
toe. “Da.mn!”
I shook my head leading her away from the grave sight. “Are you supposed to be
putting on your dress?” I raised my eyes brows in a warning glance.
“Just because I work for you, Mr. President, doesn’t mean that you can just
order me around in our free time.” She stopped and put her foot in her hand.
“Great, now your dam.ned boot is making it where I can’t walk.”
I laughed at her and took her foot in my hands. “You whine a whole lot for
someone that was born and raised in a post apocalyptic world.”
She only stuck her tongue out at me. I touched where a small bruise was forming.
She hit me. “That hurt, Jack!” She hit me on my head ruffling my hair.
I dropped her foot and put my hand up to my hair. “Brady! Now I’m going to
have to fix my hair again!”
She knocked my hands away and attended to my hair. Her fingers ran softly over
my scalp as she tried to get my hair in the right position. “There.” She
looked at her work. “You look handsome again.”
“Does your foot still hurt?” I asked looking into her eyes as she still
stood close to me.
She nodded and I scooped her up in my arms. She giggled leaning in to kiss me on
the cheek. “I need a nice man like you.” She attempted to kiss me on the
cheek again, but I unknowingly turned my head.
Our lips touched and I felt something course through me. Fear that Ebony might
see? Excitement? Then she opened her lips a little and I felt her tongue push
against my lips.
I pulled away letting her fall to the ground. She still had her arms wrapped
around my neck as she stood in front of me. Her eyes looked at me in confusion.
“I need to get ready for my son’s wedding.” I stated simply before walking
away from her and down the hill.