The silence was deafening…
Sheila was fidgeting with the lace of her dress as Micah paced up and down the room in front of her, agitated.
“P…please believe me, I did not know!” She hiccuped teary eyed.
“If you did not invited them then who did, Sheila’s because I did not either!” Micah spat in growing anger while Snow watched on from the dark corner of the mansion.
Her eyes where plastered on Micah, the strong feelings of longing and revenge bubbling up in her and fighting for who to come up first…wanting nothing more then for Sheila to disappear so she could marry her love interest Micah but somehow at the same feeling a bit sorry for the pregnant girl…
Suddenly the door opened and Anastasia stepped inside with a scowl on her face and Sheila’s parents trailing behind her.
“What on earth is going on, why are you standing here while you two should be out there finishing the ceremony!” She spat out angry.
“Excuse me mother until i hear the truth about what is going on here there will be no marriage! so start talking! who will tell me the truth here?!¨ Micah shouted while his midnight blue orbs shot daggers towards Sheila when suddenly the door opened again revealing her parents to his utter dismay.
¨Oh yeas why you not come up here an gloat! now tell me the truth, why are you here?!´ he hissed while marching towards Dinah, Sheila´s mother.
¨Come stop this foolishness! lets get all back so we can continue this union between our family!¨ Dinah responded with raised eyebrows. Meanwhile Sheila was about to burst to tears while hear heartbeat was getting higher and higher. With one hand she wiped the falling tears away while with the other she rubbed circles on her big belly trying to sooth her restless baby girl until suddenly a pain struck her like lightening.
¨AAHHh….aauuwww!¨ She shouted while pressing on her belly.
¨Are you okay honey?¨ Anastasia asked while walking over to her daughter in law.
¨It hurts!…it hurts like hell!¨ Sheila muttered while trying not to faint.
¨Stop this stupidity right now Micah, just look what you have done! all this stress is costing here!, Guards call doctor Angelo!¨ Anastasia shouted.
While Anastasia helped Sheila to take a seat on a nearby chair in the hallway, one of the guards spoke trough his earpiece and asked for the doctor to be called to the house.
The hospital room was filled with tension as Sheila lay on the bed, her face contorted in pain as she went through the throes of childbirth. Anastasia, her mother-in-law, stood by her side, a stern look on her face as she held out a pen and a stack of papers.
“Sign these, Sheila,” Anastasia demanded, her voice cold and unyielding. “You need to make this official before the baby is born so Micah can’t change his mind okay!.”
Sheila’s breaths came in short gasps as she tried to focus on the task at hand. She knew that Anastasia was concerned about her family’s reputation and not really in her well-being even though they started out out as friends, right now she saw a side of her emerge that she really didn’t like and that she didn’t see coming either but here she was in her weakened state and she felt powerless to resist.
As Sheila hesitantly reached out to take the pen, Anastasia answered a phone call while stepping away but still keeping an eye in Sheila.
“Hello love!” She whispered to the caller.
“How’s it going honey, has she signed yet?” A man’s voice answered after one ring.
“I’m trying too but she is in labor so it’s not easy to get her to focus” Anastasia muttered.
“She needs to! If not we don’t have leverage over Micah! If she doesn’t sign them find a way to make it appear that she has signed at least that shows him that she did!”
“Okay, I’ll try, how’s your side going and where is that Snow girl?”
“Snow I haven’t seen since the wedding and for the rest ik trying to get rid of that stupid wife of mine!”
“Clingy bitch!”
“Indeed! And a cheating gold digger could be add as well, anyways my love, I am busy making some plans for us to escape this weekend so you better start packing!”
“Really? But isn’t that too much right now? We still have to get rid of Snow, get Micah to sign and what not ….”
“Woman! Relax! We have come so far now you relax or you really get sick!….oh by the way have you told him yet?”
“What do you mean?”
“Micah, have you told him yet about you not having cancer!”
“No, no I haven’t yet but I m not sure at the moment if I will….”
“Why not? I think it will actually help with getting him off your back which we want so he will focus more on his new family, right?”
“Hmm….there’s a point yes okay you ditch that bitchy wife and I’ll take care here, talk to you soon, love you!”
“Love you too my flower!”
After the call Sheila calls for a doctor and after a short check up they gave her the clear sign that she could start pushing.
Five hours later…
“Son you need to sign as well,” Anastasia said, her tone leaving no room for argument.
Don Micah glanced at Sheila, who was in deep slumber with her daughter beside her in the crib.
“Why this rush mother why, what on earth is going on? Why do I keep having the feeling that something is really wrong in my own home that I don’t have a single clue about?!” He muttered in frustration.
“Just stop jabbing and sign the damn wedding contract Micah!” Anastasia hissed making Micah’s eyebrows raise in shock at his mother tone towards him, which she has never done before!
“Mama! What on earth has gotten into you lately? Is that secret lover of yours treating you so badly that you behave like this, towards your son the Don of this famiglia! I demand respect, even from you mama!” Micah stated coldly trough gritted teeth.
Meanwhile Snow stood in the corner of Sheila’s bedroom her heart breaking as she watched her and the baby thinking if how much she would be in her place, being with Micah, still not remembering that once upon a time she hated his guts! Now she had fallen in love with him, but she saw how he loved his mother and the rest of his Brotherhood as she called his mafia friends, but would he ever see her more as friends? And why did she keep on having these visions or dreams of a future of them together on a snowy mountain? She asked herself as she sneaked out of Sheila’s bedroom. She walked down the stairs where she suddenly heard loud voices coming from Micah’s home office, from himself and what sounded like his mother’s, Anastasia making stop in her tracks to listen in…
“I don’t know whatever the freak it is that that woman has one you bit she is a treat to this family And needs to go, asap!”
“But mama she is my …my prisoner! How can I let her go after what she did to me, to us, our famiglia?!”
“Fine them kill her! That you should have done ages ago anyways! You know the others will see you as weak and when Sal find out….”
“Sal? Not Salvatore? Why all of a sudden he is Sal, like a pet name mother?” Micah gasped.
Anastasia directly knows she slipped and made a huge unwanted mistake!
“Well just saying Sal or Salvatore, is All the same! You just focus on what I have said that it’s not good for our business! So you tell me right here, right now the truth!” She demanded.
Micah sighed feeling no choice as to come clean towards his mother.
“Guards, leave!” He asks and after he and his mother are alone in his office he sighed and walks over towards the window.
“You must have noticed by now that she is not okay….that she is different right?”
“You mean Snow right?”
“Yes Snow, mother! About who else? Anyways let’s get this over with and I am only telling this once and I hope I can rely on your secrecy!…..after Snow had kidnapped me she has drugged me in some strange way and made me her sex slave all the while I was at her place….she…she forced me, rapped me but I couldn’t do anything until one of her servants set me free….mama she is not entirely human! She has immense powers that are beyond human thinking but there is also something on which I can’t put my finger on…and now she has lost her memories and behaves like a normal human woman, well mannered and all and she doesn’t know what she has done too me! I was so ashamed, still am….if they ever would find out that the Don let himself get raped by a woman and….and at some point liked being physical with his captor then that would be the end!! That’s why I didn’t tell you, tell nobody! But killing her I just couldn’t! I don’t know why but it is what it is!” Micah tells his story to his mother who sat down in surprise with mouth agape.
“She raped you?! Dear lord have mercy! Then she definitely should be dead by now! Why haven’t you killed her, why? If a man would do that to me I would make sure that guy would be fed in peaces to our dogs!”
“I know mother I know and I agree but….I just can’t….I don’t know why…..I just….”
Suddenly a loud noise coming from the hallway alerted both of them and Micah walked over to his door and opened it only the watch Snow running away from his office door….
“Shit, shit!!” He cursed realizing that she must have heard everything.
“What is it son, who was there?” Anastasia asked curiously while typing a message on her phone. Mi ah turned around with his lips tight just as his phone started to ring.
“Yes?” He answered the call.
“Don Micah?”
“Who is this?”
“You’re speaking with the police chief, I need you at the station, I have some questions regarding a John Doe we have found” the chief stated.
“Ehm ok, I don’t know anything about a death body but I’ll see you, I’ll be there shortly” he curtly answered before cutting the call.
“What did he want?” His mother asked.
“He wants to talk to me about a dead body!” Mica grunted.
“He what?!!” Anastasia yelled.