Chapter 77

After the failed meal, Aiden's mood took a down hill, he was just so moody and angry. I understood this, I was being unreasonable but I couldn't help it. You try eating with images of baby guts all over your table. It was horrific.

Sometime he tried to reason with me asking what would happen if the pups ended up no more. I knew it hurt him to ask that but I could also see that he was willing to bring up anything that would make me go back to taking care of myself.

I told him in response that I would end up no more too. They were me, I could not just put them at the back of my head and hope for the best. If it was more I could do then I would. I considered visiting my mother but heard that she had moved. She could be our prime suspect but my mother wouldn't take in the mutts, just what she would call them. My mother despised pups, and I still don't understand why she had me in the first place. She did talk about wanting to have a grandchild only if she was not to take care of it.

The response I gave him seemed to shatter him, but I thought that was that because he was afraid of losing me too. From then he kept his distance and stopped forcing me to do anything. He would go out for a run for a prolonged period of time and come back home all sweaty and tired. He stopped eating at home and went to bed early.

Which brings us to today, he had gotten up very early, I don't know what time, since I was sleeping in the pup's room on the sofa. He must have gone out for his morning runs because when he was back not more than two hours later he hit the shower.

In these past two days Aiden and I haven't been speaking, I've missed him so much. The no shower thing was ridiculous so I took showers, but joining him didn't seem like a good idea. He was in a very bad mood. When the house was so silent at a time, you would hear a chair being flipped on its legs, or shattering of glass somewhere. When he was out, I would go look maybe to clean up the glass so that they don't hurt him in his bad mood but I would find no evidence that what I heard was true. No this time I wasn't delusional, I clearly heard glass shatter just that he cleaned it up. I didn't find broken pieces in the trash all anywhere in the house but I did find some glass objects missing.

No, I was still not joining him, not until I know that he is not angry at me for not eating. The clothes I had on were even hanging from my frame, those luscious curves I talked about all went to nil. But my body wouldn't listen to me, I'd get nausea every time I looked at food and my stomach would roil. It wasn't a nice feeling or sight.

I hear him come out of the shower and his phone rings in the distance, we haven't got any calls since we put up the poster with an amount on it. It was an amount that any alliance would betray their partners for just to get their hands on such an amount. But no one had called, even to say hi. So this was our first call, I figured he would handle it so I just sat on my spot and continued to look out the window.

"Aiden Davis speaking" I hear from the corridor then, "What do you want" in a very hostile manner. What was going on the other end? Was it the bandits responsible for my babies disappearing? They had to call, we figured that these people wanted to bargain a price for our pups.

This must be it, I had a feeling it was so I get up and move closer to the door to hear the conversation properly, only partly at least. I see him putting on his jacket already in shoes heading for the door leading outside. Maybe it was a private conversation that he had to step out.

I was still curious, I wanted to know if it was them and if the pups were ok. They had been away from me for a very long time and weren't used to eating processed food. I was worried. I decided to wait for him to get of the call so I can ask him.

I waited and waited for the door to open but it didn't, I moved to the living room to wait for him better it might have been a long phone call. Worse, maybe the bad guys were being difficult and had to bargain with. Maybe Aiden needed help.

That's it, sitting in suspense was the one thing I couldn't tolerate I had to go out and find him. And so I swallowed my pride and went looking for my husband, but not after I've wrapped myself in something warm. It felt like soon it was going to snow.

Stepping out I see no sign of Aiden anywhere, he wasn't by the rocks at the far end facing the forest, he wasn't by the backyard we had the fated baby shower at he was nowhere.

"Aiden! Aiden! Aiden!" I call out. No answer. Did he leave again? Well I guess I had to wait for him until he was back then I would question him of my curiosities.

Sure enough he was back five hours later in no good condition. He was drunk by the tell of it, it also looked like he had gotten himself into a fight. His leather jacket was torn at the back and his shirt had blood stains on it.