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“What do I do? Do we run? Hide?”
“I can’t tell you what to do. You have your options. You can either live human and run for the rest of your life and those that choose to follow you will do our best to protect you or you can change. But for right now, yes we run.”
“Where to? Where do we go? They found us through you. They will find us again as long as you know where we are.”
“You’re right. You should run without me or Jarrod. The risk that imposes is great but it is your best option. If I shut off the connection, then I won’t know anything.”
“Shut off the connection. You can turn it off and yet you still stole my thoughts, my feelings. You bastard! I don’t want to leave you, but for my kids, I will. You should have never of come into our lives. For you to endanger my life is one thing, my sisters life and my kids, how could you?”
“Turning off the connection would be like turning off the support of existence to my body. I would no longer exist. I would only be a shell and it was only a matter of time Sweet. This is the way it has to be. It was going to happen anyways. Do you think that if we would have stayed away they wouldn’t have found you. They have been searching for you.”
I hate you. I hate you. Because of you, I have to leave my home, take my kids and run for our lives and that is no guarantee I can or will be able to keep them safe. How dare you do this to them? Leave my house now and don’t ever come back here.
Chapter Seventeen
The minute she turned her back to him her heart broke. She turned back to stop him, to apologize and beg for him to stay but he wasn’t there.
Wait come back. I was mad. I didn’t mean it. Please I know you can hear me.
She waited breathlessly for him to come back. Hoping and praying that he would. She needed him to help her through this. To help her protect her children. To stay with her and make sure nothing happened to her babies. Innocent children that had nothing to do with the stupid mistakes that she had made.
She ran to the bedroom hoping Jarrod could get him back but Jarrod was gone as well.
He knows I want him back here; it was a stupid mistake, why isn’t he coming back?
She knew what she needed to do. She had to run with her children and had nowhere to go. She didn’t know what she was up against or what to do next. She couldn’t do this alone without him. She needed him. She fell to her knees, bawling with uncontrolled emotions ripping through her heart body and soul.
Realization set in and the fact that he was now gone. She was on her own. She had to protect her children and Liz with everything in her.
Taylor ran through the house hastily packing only the necessary clothing items for all of them including Liz. She got everything loaded into her SUV. She was now more appreciative of her having the big Tahoe, third seat, fully loaded edition.
“Liz, wake up.” Taylor whispered nudging her shoulder.
“What?”
“We have to go. Come on I will explain on the way.”
“No, I want to sleep. Where did Jarrod go? I know he’s left, I can’t feel him here anymore.” How could she feel him? I never felt Damien like that. Taylor felt jealous of the connection that they had but she didn’t have the time to explore why.
“Liz, there’s no time.” Taylor turned her voice up a notch careful not to wake up the kids which was exactly what she needed to open her eyes seeing the seriousness that Taylor had.
“What’s wrong Tay? Did something happen to Jarrod? Damien? What is it?” Taylor heard the panic and fear in Liz’s voice. She didn’t know how to make it go away.
“Let’s go. We have to get the kids and get out of here. We can’t stay. I’ll tell ya on the way. We don’t have much time.” Taylor reached over grabbing Zach who was on the side of the bed. She waited for Liz to grab Ashley.
They loaded up the kids and took off. She didn’t have a plan on where to go. Just to drive and keep driving until she found somewhere to stop. They wouldn’t be able to stay for long at each stop along the way, that she knew for sure.
She had the financial part figured out. She still had a lot of Chase’s life insurance money left. Between that and what she had saved herself combined with Liz they could go for a while. She even thought that Liz and she could work if needed as traveling nurses along the way.
After stopping, filling up with gas, Taylor grabbed some snacks with some really strong coffee. She explained everything to Liz. Immediately she could see the mirror image of all of her emotions, her feelings, her thoughts. All of it compiled into the look she projected from her eyes.
“What are we going to do?” Liz whispered fighting back the tears as she turned looking over her shoulder at the twins who slept peacefully in the back. The bond that she had with them was almost as strong as it was with Taylor. Liz had basically been their second mother for their entire life. Every decision she made revolved around them. And now they both had to make this decision together and Taylor was completely torn.
“Should we change our names? Our appearance? What do we do? They can find us if they want to. What can we do?”
“I know. I don’t know what to do right now. I just know we have to be strong and keep it together until we know what to do. Just keep driving. Just keep moving. That is my only plan.”
“Where are Jarrod and Damien? They could help us.”
