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ask. I turn slowl y, looking through the darkness to find him sitting in the corner. He presses pause on the iPod, and the disturbing words of Let the Bodies Hit the Floor that I’m so accustomed to during his abusive rampages, silences.
    “I’m sorry.” I manage a raspy whisper. He walks to the side of the bed, reaching me a glass of water and a Lortab. I swallow the pill back, then lay back down on the bed. “Sleep,” he orders, and I pinch my eyes closed. I hear the door pull shut behind him, and only then I am able to release the pent up breath I have wedged in my chest. The sheer terror that Josh sends coursing through my veins, repulses me. How one person can be lovingly tender one day, to flipping like a light switch to a sadist the very next, is beyond me. It is the scariest transformation I have ever witnessed.

Chapter 3

    Colton’s coal stained hands are wrapped around my belly. I look up at him, and admire the smile on his face reaching from ear to ear. We’ve found our happiness. Suddenly, he looks up over my shoulder. He looks confused. He rips his hands away and takes a long step backwards. His face is marred in grief stricken heartache, as he looks up at me behind red rimmed eyes. Shaking his head, he walks away. I call out to him, screaming louder and louder, but he never turns back. I feel a hand on my stomach, and through my tears I look up to see Luke smiling down at my rounded belly. Luke grabs my hand, and pulls me away, but I continue to plead for Colton to come back. But he fades into the distance. Luke doesn’t even acknowledge my heart ache and desperation. His focus is on his own happiness…the baby. I try to pull away from him, so that I can chase Colton, but he tightens his grip on my wrist and shakes his head from side to side. I rip my hand from his grip, and turn to run towards Colton. Suddenly I lose my footing and crash against the ground. Blackness and stars fill my vision, as thick heavy screams erupt from Luke’s lungs. I try to force my eyes open, but the darkness pulls at me, holding me captive from my own reality. I can feel Luke’s hands gripping my shoulders, shaking me to wake up, but his touch has no effect on me. When the stars grow thicker in my vision, I give into the fuzzy depths that surround me and fall into the darkness.
    I feel steel hands encase my arms, and a soothing deep voice whispering in my ear. “It’s okay darlin’, just wake up. It’s only a dream. I got ya.” He says, pulling me up into his lap. When I feel the steady beat of his heart vibrating against my ear, the fear from the dream melts away. I’m safe.
    “Bad dream?” Colton says when my eyes spring open and lock onto his.  Unable to find words, I simply nod, and will the tears tickling th e back of my eyes to stay back. He presses a tender kiss to my temple, and tightens his grip around my waist.
    “What’d you do all day?”
    “Not much of anything. What time is it? I didn’t expect you to come by.”
    “It’s just after noon. I was worried ‘bout ya. Wanted to see how you’re feelin’. Are ya okay, you seem really shook up?”
    Damn he always sees right through me. “I’m fine, just had a bad dream.”
    “Did ya get an appointment with an OB/GYN yet?”
    “I did. The appointment is in two weeks.”
    “Well damn. I know you want to wait to tell everyone, but Heidi Jo’s birthday is in just a few days. We gotta tell her. Can you imagine how excited she’s gonna be to be a big sister. Hell, I still can’t believe it.”
    I jerk up out of his arms, horror and dread blanket my face. “Colton, we ain’t telling anyone yet, do you hear me? You promise me this stays between us until I see the doctor. I’m obviously still really early, and we ain’t jinxing this. So zip your lips. Not a damn word!”
    He looks up at me under scrunched eye brows and huffs out a deep pent up breath of air. “Darlin’, I know you’re scared, but everyone is gonna be happy for