Grace's POV

My feet felt heavy as I dragged my feet along in the pouring rain. My head spun and my right hand clenched a sheet of paper that in which my misfortune was written. I had been walking with no destination for probably close to an hour. No cars in sight only the street light of the secluded community I lived in lit my way.

My mind replayed the episode that had occurred that led to my current pitiful situation. Every word they had spat at me like acid, had left holes which my will to live was presently seeping out.

I was wearing my lavender silk nightgown. The one that Tyler loved to see me in. I had planned to surprise him but today went more than wary.

"You ungrateful *****!" mother had chastised me and landed a slap on my already tear-stained face.

"We made you somebody and you pay us back like this?" Father had added in his usual eerie tone.

Tyler, Oh my dear Tyler had just looked on. His face distorted with an emotion I couldn't recognize.

I was useless as they had said because even I could not explain the contents of the letter which now I held in my hand. I deserved where I was now. No friends, no family and no love. My life would soon join the list; for I would pay for the sins I had committed.

I clutched my stomach not out of love for the life that lived within but out of scorn. The life within was not worthy of Tyler's love neither was it of mine.

The parasite had crawled into me. Feeding and thriving on something that wasn't its own. It was not Tyler's child but a curse whose only mission was to destroy our happy life?

I heard an oncoming car but I had no interest in asking for help. I had to pay for my crime. Yet I wondered what a car would be doing passing through this serene neighbour at night in the pouring rain. An overwhelming sense of dread washed over me. I quickened my strides clutching my shoulder as though I could outrun a car.

It came closer and closer as I gulped and felt it zoom past me. My relief was short-lived as the car stopped a couple of yards ahead of me. I stopped and held my breath. The door of the black car I couldn't recognize opened as I made my move. Running in the opposite direction. I heard the footsteps as they were probably getting out of the car and suddenly I heard them sprint.

They were after me. For a split second, I hoped that maybe just maybe it was just Tyler who had sent his men but I knew every one of his cars like the back of my palm. I felt hands on me; I was not fast enough. I struggled against an unknown number of men but of course, I was no match. The last thing I remember was a cloth on my face before I fell into darkness's open arms.