Obsession

10.

Raven drove. Mind racing. No Idea where or how far she was going. Just driving. But her heart wouldn't let her leave the father of her unborn child. No matter how shitty he was to her or how ignorant he had become, something about him wouldn't allow her to leave.

She set the GPS back to their new home and cruises back making sure to park his car exactly how it was before she took it and creeping back into the house. She could hear him weeping from the bedroom and made her way to his side carefully. Leaving enough distance between the two just incase his crying was a hoax.

"I'm sorry, for.... for leaving. But you've been an ass to me since we got here. You said you wanted to start over, be a family, do anything to prove your love to me. But all you've been doing is proving your loyalty to your "business partners" who continuously make passes and touch me when you're not around. If you really love me tell me 10 things you love about me or I get to leave."

He nods and pull her close to him. Rubbing his hands along her fuzz covered belly. She was growing daily and he was impatiently waiting the arrival of his seed. And he could easily tell her ten things or more about what he loved about her.

"Ten things. Right off the top of my head?"

"Yes."

"I love how your eyes grow small when you smile that's how I know when something makes you genuinely happy or it's really funny. I love how you dance a little when we have cookies and ice cream. I love how you wake with messy hair and still find it necessary to lay up under me instead of getting pretty. I love the way you sing 80's and 90's love songs effortlessly while you cook or clean. I love how your skin glows when you start to relax and be happy again. I love how beautiful you look carrying my child. I love how I can sit and talk to you for hours about any and everything. I love your taste in music. I love how comfortable you are with your weight and how you love wearing your hair in its natural state. But what I love the most is how your willing to still make things work when I've been nothing but a bitch to you since I took you from the states. I love you Raven. I'm obsessed with you and only you."

He strokes her face pulling her onto his lap.

"Bet you could never name ten things." He says while wiping the tears from her face.

"I could before all of this. I want to go home Stephan we can be a family back home."

"How many times do I have to tell you no huh? Don't upset me Ray. I gave you my reasons so stop trying me."

"If you really loved me you'd let us go back."

"I SAID NO RAVEN THAT SHITS FINAL. WE'RE NOT GOING BACK WE'LL BE A FUCKIN FAMILY HERE AND YOU'RE GOING TO LIKE IT! Do you understand me?"

"Yes daddy....."

"I can't hear you."

"Yes daddy...."

They both sat in silence for a few minutes Raven terrified to move and Stephen gathering his thoughts. If anyone else was in the room that would believe Raven was having a Asthma attack from his heavy and fast she was breathing.

"I'm sorry princess. I'm gonna work on getting my shit together for you and the baby. Ok? You just piss me off sometime."

She gets up making sure to tug her robe back closed. "All the time you mean."

She leaves the room leaving him alone with his thoughts and heads to the pool to ease her mind. The only thing that had been keeping her sane was the water. It helped her keep everything together when he would tear things apart. When he would leave her sore she would run to the water to swim away the pain and help put herself to sleep. It helped her think of baby names when she would go for nightly swims and stare at the stars. But most of all it kept her active which kept the weight off.