Chapter 88

"Don't be too rush in your decisions Dear Aiden, not before you hear the conditions I am going to set"

"I will not agree to any twisted thought you have in your head Claire. Forget it." I warn.

"Oh, that won't do Aiden, you are going to have to need to listen to this" she says

"stop beating about the bush" I say through clenched teeth. What did she mean I was going to need to listen to what she had to say? I knew I wasn't supposed to entertain her but I was a bit interested.

"Since you want to speed up the conversation, fine. It is clear as day and your intelligences are sharp enough to understand." I couldn't feel more insulted. The imply itself that I am smart enough suggests that that my thinking capacity is low. But bargaining this with her was pointless, I needed to know where she was keeping my babies.

She was using a burner phone so tracking it would be impossible.

"You have no choice in this Aiden, you and I are getting married and the slut of a wife goes bye bye. Do we understand each other Aiden" she says "And one wrong move from you then your lovely beautiful pups explode to a million pieces."

She must be bluffing, who in heavens rings would want to make little babies explode? Only the devil herself in all her female glory

"No Aiden, I am not bluffing" as if she has read my mind . through the phone I could hear stepping sounds as she moved around the room she was in.it sounded like an empty room given by the echoes made when her foot hit the ground.

It didn't sound like it was a big room so they were possibly not in a ware house. The ground she was stepping on sounded as if it was covered or carpeted, but that could be anywhere.

She speaks again as she reaches her designated station on the other side of the phone. "You see Aiden, you try to pull something funny I will absolutely explode your precious babies. I do not like the things and there is nothing that is going to stop me from blowing them up even you."

She puts her phone receiver to something and surely enough I hear ticking sounds. I immediately remove the phone from my ear and hit the record button, I had a friend who was experienced with bombs, maybe he would be able to tell me the authenticity of the bomb. It might just be a ploy to get me to accept.

She did say something about no negotiating, so accepting anything was out of the picture. I had to be smart about this, one wrong move from me and the next thing I know I have no family anymore. Whether it was a scam or not, I was the one with everything to lose and she knew it.

"Did you hear that Aiden, did you hear the cradle ticking off?" she slurs. Hearing her voice close to my ear like this made it hard for me not to pull away the phone and just downright cut the call. I seriously had better things to do than listen to her voice dictate to me how she was going to run my life. Like hell I was going to let her.

Keeping my voice dead serious I ask her, "How sure am I that that is not just a toy ticking and not my pups. For all I care you might not even have the pups with you, you just needed me vulnerable and this was it. Isn't that right Claire." I sweeten the last part. Of course I was bluffing, she wasn't. I knew for sure my pups where there in that ticking cradle. She is capable of that.

There was a slight breeze blowing, it was almost end November and the weather was just the way it needed to be, cold. But that wasn't the thing that was bothering me right now. What was bothering me was how this scenario she proposed was going to break my wife's heart.

I do not want to hurt her, she was already broken enough when I met her. She looked like an innocent doe caught in the attentions of a hunter trying to make a name of himself.

The way my heart had skipped a beat when my eyes first lay upon her being, she was lost, clearly but she looked like an angel after my heart and soul. I know I was angry then, about what? I couldn't remember but what I do remember was that it did not matter after my eyes had in their fill.

She was scared, it was clear but of who? It is when I heard it, the sound of that bastard Sebastian. The audacity of his to trample into my tent and make commands was beyond me. And he didn't see what happened to him coming? I mean who wouldn't, I am not trying to sound prideful but it was the truth.

She chuckles over the line bringing me back to the present. "Oh how coy you are Aiden, you know it is true what I've said. I know you believe me, you are just being a fool. But I will confirm for you, because, why not.

I hear more shuffling noises and then she is back but her voice distant as the receiver is not directly over her mouth. She says something and then a coo follows.

That was definitely my little Raven. She sounded so at peace with herself without knowing that she was being used in a sick plot to get back at me after what I did to a certain someone. She deserved everything that happened to her when she thought I was the one behind this. I wish.

Her voice comes back on from the other end, "You see Aiden, I am no liar"