Seven days later
Lauren Monique
"Eli help me" Alex cries trying to peel his hand from his face, I superglued them together while he was asleep last night. "Bella, you took this way too far"
"I wanted to strap you to your bed then hang it off the balcony. Elijah made me settle for this so be thankful" I shrug untwisting Tiana hair, her Afro looks amazing.
"That would have been extreme " Elijah chuckles laying on his back, touching my hair
"Thank you" Tiana smiles looking at it through her phone
"No problem"
"Mama, I seen fishy" Delilah yawns rubbing her eyes coming into Elijah and I's bedroom
"When?" I questioned confusedly, there's no fishes in this house
"Sleeping, I saw fishy"
Hell no, it can't be me we used condoms
Tiana and I shared a look before I spoke.
"Is it you?" I ask Tiana
"No it can't be, Remo and I haven't reached that part of our relationship yet" she shakes her head, getting off the floor stretching
"I'm confused" Elijah says giving us confused looks
"Don't worry about it" I waved him off not wanting to get his hopes up and end up being a false alarm
"Breakfast is ready" Benjamin yells from the hallway
"Let's eat!" I got up quickly picking up Delilah leaving the room "how many fishy's did you see?"
"Umm five" Delilah says holding up her hand, wiggling her fingers
"Dang" Tiana chokes patting her chest
"Somebody got me fucked up" I scoff as me got to the dining room, Elijah walks in pulling his shirt over his head
"What's wrong?" He asks sitting beside me
"Nothing"
"Are you hiding something?"
"No, I'll tell you later"
"Okay" he nods taking a hold of my hand, grabbing his cup he looked at it briefly before taking a sip
***
I took six different pregnancy test to confirm the theory, they all came back negative.
"Okay so if not me then who?" I mumble confusedly
"Babe, let me in. I have to pee" Elijah yells banging on the bathroom door
"There's like ten different bathrooms in this house and your choosing this one?" I ask opening the door, he ignored me going straight to the toilet. He glanced at the counter doing a double take.
"Why do you have so many pregnancy tests?"
"Delilah has a dream about fishes. It's myth that if someone dreams of fishes then a person their close to or a person in their family is pregnant, I had to know it if was me if not"
". . . Are you pregnant?" he questions flushing the toilet, zipping up his pants
"No"
"Oh" he nods washing his hands
"Mr.Eli, you have a visitor" Benjamin says knocking on the bathroom door
"Can you see who it is? I need to change into something more appropriate" Elijah motions to his pjs and tank top
"Yeah" I nod slapping his butt, earning a light punch to my shoulder
"Don't touch me like that, Babe it's not cool" he exclaims trying to make his voice like mines
"Yeah yeah" I waved him off jogging to the front door, I stopped short seeing a female that looks similar to the casino girl Rosa "who the fuck are you?"
"Elena" her Italian accent is clear as day, she smiles holding her hand out, instead of taking it in mines I stared at her stomach
"You're pregnant" I stated watching her smile widens as she nods "that's supposed to be Elijah's kid? Please tell me your his sister"
"His kid" she chuckles glancing back at the older man getting out a car behind her, coming towards us "can I come in?"
"Do pigs fly? Hell no" I closed the door, running upstairs to our bedroom. Seeing Elijah buttoning up his shirt I punched him in chest "why do you have bitches coming here saying their pregnant by you? You want kids that bad you couldn't wait on the person you supposedly want to marry and spend the rest of you life with?"
"Calm down" Elijah got ahold of my wrist, shaking his head "I told you about the business deal I made a few weeks ago, this is it. Well Alessandro made it and now I have to hold up my part, you have to trust me"
He lets go of my hands taking a step back, I pulled out a overnight bag from under our bed and started putting a few outfits in it.
"What are you doing?"
"Leaving"
"No you aren't" he gripped my waist pulling me away from the door "I told you, you weren't leaving me"
"Starting a family with another bitch? Seems like you already left me" shoving my elbow in his side, he lets go quickly with a groan.
Making my way to Delilah's room I started packing a few of her outfits when Elijah came in snatching it out of my hands.
"If you want to leave then leave but you aren't taking her"
"What da hell you mean? She's my daughter!"
"She's mines too, the adoption is finished" he nods picking Delilah up as she played with LEGO's
"That's not fair" I choked on the verge of crying, I've been trying to keep it together since I got back from New Jersey but everything's falling apart. "Let me take her, please"
"Eli" a familiar voice yells from downstairs
"Elijah please" I beg trying to take Delilah from his arms
"No" he shakes his head, going towards the stairs
Following him I carried my bag on my back, still trying to take her.
"How could you do this to me? I told you I loved you and I meant it. I told you I'll have your kids why would you get someone else pregnant?" my chest tighten as his father and Elena come into view along with a older looking man
"We should discus the wedding, Elena wants it to be in New York during the winter" the older man chuckles rubbing Elena's stomach, she seems to be four or five months along
"You've got to be kidding me" I hiccuped hitting Elijah's back "are you serious?"
"Finally, I see your getting rid of the help" Mr.Ricci chuckles pointing to me
This time Elijah didn't defend me, he just glanced at me briefly before calling Benjamin into the to take Delilah.
"Benjamin, give me my child" I tried to stay as calm as possible, reaching for Delilah who was now looking at us confusedly reaching for me "she wants me, give her to me"
"I'm sorry, Lauren but I can't" he walks away towards the back of the house
Tears rolled down my face as I tried going after them but Remo threw me over his shoulder. Taking me out the front door towards my truck.
"Remo please, that's my kid!" I shout trying to break his arm so I could get out of his hold "why are y'all doing this to me?"
He placed my feet on the ground pointing to my truck.
'Get in' he sign's with a pleading look 'Mr.Ricci made it clear that if you didn't leave, I'd have to shoot you'
"Then shoot me" I shrug walking towards the house but he stopped me by pushing my back slightly
'Tiana and I will keep an eye on her while your gone' he signs before taking out his gun when he heard Mr.Ricci voice
"Keep her safe" I nod giving in
***
Speeding through the open road I cried my heart out to Messiah over the phone.
"First I lose my kid because I couldn't keep my stress levels down, then Lucas cuts me off for five months than comes back but only because he needed my help with finding his girlfriend and tells me he didn't want me to know about her because he thought I would judge her. And now there's a girl claiming to be pregnant by Elijah and he wouldn't let me take Delilah!" pulling over I got out the truck noticing the smoke coming from the front of it
This is where I wanted to be anyways, I sat at the edge of the cliff staring down.
"This year has been nothing but a terrible dream" I sighed
"Where are you?" Messiah question shuffling in his background
"The gateway to peace" I sniffled standing up
It's my fault, everything's my fault. If I told someone about the threats I was receiving from Tray during my pregnancy I wouldn't have stressed my Izzy out to the point where I induced my own labor. When Elijah kicked me out that night I was having contractions and I mistaken them as regular cramps.
It's my fault Lucas didn't feel comfortable telling me about his girlfriend.
It's my fault Elijah went to another female, if I just gave him what he wanted he wouldn't have to go to her for kids. If I didn't be so selfish and got over my past I could've given him his first kid.
It's my fault all my feelings and dark thoughts are resurfacing again, if I faced my problems head on I wouldn't be in this position.
"I love you Messiah, thank you for being the bestfriend I could ever asked for" dropping my phone I closed my eyes as the edge of the cliff I was standing on started to crumble underneath me quickly
"Monique!" I heard just as my body fell with the rest of the ledge
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