Iris' pov.
Before I open my eyes, my hearing goes alive, and I could tell I'm on a shore. I could hear the waters slowly outflow to shore then back to the waters. The birds were wide awake singing whatever beautiful song they usually sing. The smell of water and the wet sand heavily invaded my nose and I found peace for the first time in a long time. But before I could feel comfortable, I remembered, Raul, Jenna our baby.
Just then Jenna walks in, wearing some simple clothes and sandals with a bowl in her hands. The other thing I noticed was that her belly was showing. But how could that be? She was about a month pregnant. Now she's roughly five months pregnant, meaning I've been out for Four months.
"Hey Iris. Nana says you have to take it every day, three times" she says sitting next to me, and I sit up, cautiously taking the bowl off her hands and gulping it as fast as I can because it tastes like aloe Vera mixed with chillies and chlorophyll.
"Where are we? How's the baby?" I ask her. She takes a deep breath as if bracing herself for my reaction. I could tell that I was going to recieve devastating news.
She hands me an article that was sitting on the table next to me. According to the article, Raul and all his men were murdered, burned to ashes.
I felt my heart drop. It can't be true. And what angered me the most is that Wallace was the one who look over all of Raul's wealth. I felt the fire of revenge burn inside me.
"Leave me for a while." I tell Jenna trying to hide my heartbroken tone. Immediately she left, I cried my heart and soul out, as all the memories I had with Raul flooded my mind. My heart was completely shattered. He was the love of my life, and he was gone without a proper good bye. I cried so hard, I almost stopped breathing. Then suddenly I felt something burn it's way up my spine. I will kill him.
After a while of imagining all the things I would have done different, then realizing I can't change my past, I just lie down for a while.
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I am woken up by Jenna dipping a cloth in cold water and applying it on my forehead.
"Hey. You kind of passed out yesterday." She says softly.
"Why didn't you kill me? You had several chances to." I asked, in a suspicious tone.
She looked me straight in the eye, then took a huge sigh, and continued to pat my forehead. That's when I really thought about it. If she wanted me dead , I would be dead. Was there something she wasn't telling me?
I tried to give her the stare Raul uses to scare the living shit out of everyone, and she was scared, but she didn't say anything.
She finally smiled.
"Nana says it will be a girl. She will be tenacious and hardcore, just like you. She's almost constantly kicking me, especially when I'm in the kitchen, making soup. I guess we already know what her favourite meàl is going to be." She says and chuckles.
"I don't want our daughter to live the life we lived. I don't want her to grow up with revenge, or anger. I want her to be normal, and go to a normal school, make normal friends and make her own decisions, not being constantly abducted, and tortured, the was I was when I was her age. " She tells me taking my hand, and looking deep into my eyes. For the first time, I saw a pure love in her eyes. And i held her hand firmly, the other in her cheek,
"Jenna, i will protect our daughter with every ounce of blood I have, and I also want her not to get involved with all this mafia shenanigans, danger and trouble. Don't worry."
As she took solace in my words, I know that I will keep those words. But I will definitely have to avenge Raul's death. I alone, it is not a battle I'm willing to involve our daughter in. She is innocent. But Wallace is not, and I plan on raining on him like Lucifer's parade. And that is an oath.