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There is a moment of stunned silence as Charles stares at me in the rapidly dwindling light. Sooner or later, one of the staff will turn on the garden lights. I stare back at him, a sinking feeling in my gut as I wonder if I’ve made a mistake telling him. If he rejects the baby, it will hurt like a bitch.“Excuse me?”“I said you’re my baby’s father. I found out sometime after we got back from the island and I left the hospital that I’m pregnant, but I was not yet ready to tell you about it. I’m not still sure I should have told you, but I…” I had said all this in a rush, trying to get the words out as fast as possible, but now, I trail off.“You’re carrying my child?” Charles asks again, but this time, he’s asking to be sure that he’s not hearing things. At my nod, the widest grin that I’ve ever seen graces his face and he lets out a whoop of delight which is so in contrast to his usual somber demeanor, that I find myself returning the smile.“Something tells me that you did not rejo
Castaways - Stranded With The Enemy Visitor
SAMANTHAIt does not take long for my illness to go away, but now, I’m dead bored and lonely in this house all by myself. Charles has been avoiding me ever since I came to his house, which sucks, to say the least. On some days, he doesn’t even bother to come home and stays away for two to three days at a stretch.He hasn’t said anything about the house he said he would get for me, so I’m hoping that he has realized that it’s in our best interest to live together. However, what’s more important is the fact that I need to get him to like me again as he once did. As I’m thinking these thoughts, I hear the door open, signaling that he’s home, and I quickly get up to go welcome him.“Welcome home,” I say meekly when I get to the living room, where he is loosening the first buttons of his shirt while sipping a glass of cold water. He raises his gaze to meet mine and nods in response to my greeting, but the expression in his eyes is not in the slightest bit pleasant.“How was work today?” I
Castaways - Stranded With The Enemy 'Acquaintance'
SAMANTHAI immediately open my mouth to scream, but Charlotte is as quick as a striking snake. She moves her hand in a flash, and when she raises it, she’s brandishing a wicked-looking gun. I slam my mouth shut immediately, no other warning needed.“Who are you and what do you want?” I manage to ask, my voice quivering as my eyes dart this way and that way, looking for an escape route, but there is none to be had. I also size the bitch in front of me up and down, but even though we’re roughly the same size, I know without a doubt that I’ll be unable to take her on. For one thing, Charlotte is a seasoned murderer, so she will surely have skills that I can only dream about. For another, I’m heavily pregnant, so I’m definitely not in any position to be demonstrating any Kung Fu skills. My best option is to keep her talking. Hopefully, Charles will come back on time. I become aware that Charlotte is staring at me in surprise, as though she isn’t quite sure what to make of me, or as thou
Castaways - Stranded With The Enemy Eternal darkness
“Ah, I see you’re not the angel that I thought you were. What are you doing with that thing?” Charlotte asks me, shaking her head slightly, as though in sore disappointment. The smile is still on her face, but it doesn’t reach her eyes, and it gives her beautiful but hardened face a creepy look.“I … I wasn’t going to use it.” I defend myself feebly. Earlier, I had been too tense and focused on getting the knife that I wasn’t too aware of my surroundings. Now, though, I can see my mistake. There’s this huge painting that is in a reflective glass case and is resting on the floor against the wall opposite us, and in it, I can see my reflection and that of Charlotte. Apparently, she had been watching my every move in the glass of the painting.“No? So what were you going to do with it? Peel a potato and cook it to make me feel at home?”“Look, you’re wielding a gun at me. Naturally, I got scared a little that you were going to use it on me. A knife is no match for a gun, though.”“Yeah,
Castaways - Stranded With The Enemy Deathly silent
CHARLES It’s almost one in the morning, but instead of being in bed, I’m driving aimlessly around the mostly deserted streets, with only the occasional vehicle or two driving past once in a while. The thought of sleeping in the hospital for another night when I have the most comfortable bed in the world does not appeal to me in the least bit. I’m of a mind to simply take my things, get another place, and leave her all alone in the house, but it’s my house, which I happen to like very much, and no blackmailer is going to run me out of there. No way in hell am I letting that happen. Finally, I’m spent and no longer angry, so I make the decision to head back home. Samantha must be asleep by now anyway. The last thing I want is to be drawn into another altercation with her. I begin to drive home, thinking of the blissful moment when I’ll be able to collapse on my bed and sleep fitfully. The closer I get to my house though, the more an uneasy feeling starts to grow inside me. It is a fe
Castaways - Stranded With The Enemy Dejected
JESSICA The singing and chirping of the birds on the exotic trees in Mrs. James’s garden wake me up before I’m ready to get up from bed, but I don’t mind. I’ve overslept anyway. It is past nine in the morning, and I went to bed around nine-thirty the previous night, so that means that I’ve slept for almost twelve hours straight, something that I hardly do. Staying here with Mrs. James is good for my health and pregnancy. I take a quick shower and head downstairs because I can faintly hear the familiar voices of Sebastian and his wife, Carol, coming from downstairs. They hardly ever come here, not to talk of coming here so early, so I wonder what the problem is. By the time I get downstairs, I don’t need anyone to tell me that something horrible has happened. It is obvious from the dejected and horrified looks on the faces of everyone in the living room that everything is far from fine. Sebastian is there, as is Carol, Mrs. James, Carol’s father, and about five men I don’t know, alo
Castaways - Stranded With The Enemy Distress
CHARLESIt feels like I’m in a particularly terrifying dream from which there will be no waking up. Sebastian has hired a lawyer for me, but I’ve been going through the whole process in a numb, barely-there way, hardly able to believe that this is happening to me. I’ve been denied bail and kept in jail far longer than I would have liked, but I’m not worried about that. I’m confident that very soon, the police will find out from their investigations that I’m innocent. What I’m more worried about is what Jessica must be thinking of me and my cursed family. That’s probably a weird thing to be worried about considering the circumstances and considering the fact that I don’t know yet if Charlotte’s plan was to destroy my life by framing me for this murder. If that is the case, then she would no doubt have taken precautions to frame me so tightly that there would be no exonerating me from Samantha’s murder, which I didn’t commit.So what if Jessica decides that she wants our child to be a
Castaways - Stranded With The Enemy Delivery
JESSICAIt started as mild pains late one evening while I was relaxing in the garden with one of the guards trailing me about. The fact that they follow me literally everywhere is getting on my nerves, but there is nothing that I can do about it because obviously, it is for my own good. Besides, I have my baby to think about now too, apart from myself.I glare in irritation at one of the guards, a huge, menacing-looking, and beefy guy with tattoos all over his body. It’s obvious that he sees me glaring at him, but of course, he doesn’t give a flying fuck, not that I can blame him. The man is merely doing his job, after all.“You shouldn’t be so harsh on him. He’s here for your good.” Carol’s soft voice comes from nowhere, and I whirl around to see her standing at the entrance to the garden and smiling at me.“Jeez! How did you move so quietly? You scared the shit out of me.”“Yeah, we’re all jumpy this time around. Do they also have to follow you everywhere? I mean, it’s silly for fou
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