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Chapter 76: The Best Laid Plans
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Their screams echoed on the buildings around them as they began to go over the edge. Anna mourned the loss of the life she'd wanted, the one she'd wanted so badly that she'd traveled back in time. Darkness began to swallow them as they started over the edge, but suddenly Anna was jerked back. Isabel's eyes went wide as Anna was jerked away and she lost her grip on Anna. The hand grabbing Anna's shirt was a solid link to safety and Isabel realized this as her hands slid free and she fell into darkness. Anna was pulled back and she saw John's strong hand had been the one holding her. Anna collapsed into John's arms as Isabel's screams died away into the darkness. The thud of her hitting the ground was loud despite the thunder and lightning and in that moment Anna curled into John as the horror seeped into her bones."Anna are you alright?" John panted as his arms wrapped around her as they both slid down the wall to sit in the rain. "It's you I'm worried about, seeing you laying there
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Six months later Anna still woke up screaming. The counselor said that as time went by and with therapy that the trauma would fade. Anna stared into the mirror and could almost see the bruises that had encircled her neck for two weeks after the accident. She ran her hands over her neck and shivered as the memory of that rainy night came back to her. The times when she woke up screaming were awful but thinking about them while awake was worse. Tears began to fall slowly and she tried to shake them off. Isabel had been damaged in many ways but she was the last member of her family she had and now she was gone. Anna knew she shouldn't cry for her but found herself doing it anyway."Princess, please don't cry," John begged as he slid the door open and wrapped his arms around her. He sat behind her on the bench in front of the mirror encasing her with his body and she leaned back with a sigh."I know I shouldn't but I just can't help it when I think about it.""I'm so sorry, I wish I could
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It was one of those days that everything that could go wrong had, it seemed like Los Angeles was determined to chew her up and spit her out." But when is that anything different?" Anna grumbled as she gripped the grocery bags tighter to her chest. "Of course" she muttered with a curse as one of the bags split. She pushed a strand of long red hair back behind an ear and tried to juggle the grocery bags. She really needed to sneak past her landlord's apartment. "Holy Sh87!" She hissed quietly as the other bag ripped. She sighed, her blue eyes watchful as she stepped around a pile of trash bags. She did not have the money to pay her rent and she knew her landlord liked to collect in other ways. "Anna," a cold snakelike voice wheezed from the shadows, "can we talk?" "Mr. Droshky! She said with a gasp barely holding onto her bags as he stepped from underneath the burned out bulb "Can it wait till tomorrow? "I just worked a double and I am dead tired." "Mr. Droshky was my father," he s
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Anna popped one blue eye open as she tried to see straight. Her head throbbed and she wanted nothing more than to go back to sleep. "What's going on? She muttered to herself as she rubbed her head and gasped at the huge bump just above her left eyebrow. She gently ran her fingers over it and winced at the pain as memories rushed back, her dingy apartment, the intruder. She shook her head to clear it as she rubbed her head where the bag had hit her. "What the actual hell." She said loudly as the room came into focus. The dim light from the bathroom showed walls painted a light golden yellow. The platform bed was covered in a dove grey comforter. Walk in closets came into view and a shiver of recognition pulled at her conscious but confusion swirled inside her brain her head really hurt. Most concerning though was the man lying beside her holding her hand, Her Ex-husband John. "Oh No, Please no." she said softly as she tried to convince herself that this was a hallucination. "This c
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"How is that possible?" Anna thought to herself feeling stupidly confused. Anna's mouth dropped open in shock. John pulled back at her strange expression and burst out laughing. He'd always said she was funny even when she didn't intend to be. I'm always up for a little distracting, especially on our anniversary." "Shut up, "She said as she hit him lightly on the shoulder. "My head hurts." John stroked down her body making her shiver. Anna ran her hand over the dove grey comforter as recognition came roaring through her brain as she realized where she had to be, her old bedroom she tried to think straight but everything was muddled and if she were honest she did still feel a little sick. She pushed him back gently and put her hand over her stomach and prayed she wouldn't puke."I really don't feel well," Anna said rubbing her head. "I must be in shock, or I've had some kind of psychotic break?" She thought wildly as she looked at John. "What have I gotten myself into?" John sig
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"So much for me being drunk." She muttered as she laid awake next to John. She continued shifting around and tossing and worried that she would wake him. . "Thank god he sleeps like the dead." She muttered to herself as she slid out of the bed and slipped on her robe as she wandered over to the chair across the room. She had to take a minute to get her head around this. "Somehow, I'm here on our first wedding anniversary." She mused silently as she watched the shadows play across the wall. "I'm not sure how this happened. " Anna read her share of romance novels, truly her only escape from reality, but nothing could prepare her for the fact that she really had somehow traveled back in time. "But is it the worst thing?" She asked herself as she picked at the nude nail polish on her fingers. A lot of mixed emotions ran through her because although their marriage had ended Anna had knowledge now that she didn't then. Anna was older and somewhat wiser now. "Wiser?" "I'm not sure about
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Anna's eyes popped open and she realized that it was morning. John slept beside her soundly. While they'd slept his fingers had worked her robe open and his fingers were wrapped around her breast. Anna tried to ignore the heat spreading over her body at his touch. She had barely been able to sleep after hearing that she had to face Isabel again. In the past she'd often allowed herself to be a pushover where Isabel was concerned, now she knew she couldn't do that again. A voice in the hallway drew her attention as the door to the room began to open slowly. The door stopped opening as the voice cut through the cracked open door. "Why are you calling me?" Isabel's voice hissed through the crack in the door. "You're going to blow this!""Listen, no one's losing their job, you idiot, Anna has no idea." Her voice faded away and Anna could hear the birdlike squawks of the person on the other end of the phone."No Erin! The only thing you were paid to do was make her jealous, not sit the
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