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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
JULIAN
What was she talking about? There is no way Orson could have known where she was all this time. I knew about Marissa, but Orson?
I shook my head and knelt in front of her.
“Ry-Gia I’m-“
“My name is Rylie. Call me Rylie,” she said.
I cupped her face and planted a firm kiss on her lips.
“I’m so sorry, really, I am. What’s this stuff with Orson and a recording?” I asked.
Just as I finished talking a paramedic approached us.
“You guys okay?” he asked pointing to Rylie’s bandage.
“I am now,” she responded.
I kissed her forehead.
“We’re going to be okay, right?” she had tears in her eyes.
Just as I cleared my throat to push back the tears, I heard a familiar voice and turned. Marissa was handcuffed and being led towards a police vehicle. I jogged over to have my last word and ask about Orson.
“Well, I didn’t know you were here in all this mayhem too,” I waved my arms around.
“Fuck you, Julian. All I wanted was for you to love me back, but your head was so far up your ass you couldn’t see it.”
A laugh escaped my lips.
“You’re a piece of work Marissa. All this just to have me? And by all this I mean taking my wife, killing my baby…Orson.”
I noticed her eyes get wide then she quickly recovered.
“Orson huh? Where’s that coming from?”
“Give it up Marissa. You’re done. Daddy can’t save you from this one.”
“Maybe not,” she looked down at her stomach, “but we’ll always be connected.” She looked back up at me with a sly smile. “I’ll give you a paternity test, whatever you want but you’ll never raise this baby. It’s mine.”
“Yeah Marissa. How’s that going to work when you’re in prison?”
“Fuck you!” she yelled as I turned my back and returned to my wife.
Halfway to the stump where Rylie was still sitting, I paused and looked at the people working to put out the blazing house. What if they did something to Rylie and we could never have our own children? Could I love a child that was conceived with such malice?
The burning building felt like my life. All that I thought I knew was a lie. Again. I looked over to Rylie as she was staring off into the distance, then I glanced at Marissa as she was being guided into the back seat of a police car. Here I was stuck in the middle watching my life burn to the ground.
I still had Rylie, but would our love be enough for years to come? Would we even have a business to go back to?
I took a deep breath and crunched across the gravel towards Rylie. I felt terrible that all she had gone through, I was about to drop another bomb.
“Rylie, I have something to tell you,” I began.
She looked around me and I could hear someone quickly walking over to where we were. I turned my head to see who was interrupting my resolve.
