Some days had passed and Micah still hadn’t come back home from his appointment with the police chief and it worried Sheila. She had woken up another morning at home with her baby beside her alone in a cold bed, feeling a deep sense of unhappiness as she felt the cold place beside her. She couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off and that her relationship with Micah was deteriorating. Ever since that horrible wedding day that was supposed to be their happy day, he had only gotten back home once and that was only to talk to some of his men and to inform his mother that she should not bother herself to stay up late with dinner and asked around where Snow was but nothing about her and the baby, no signs of showing any affection, or any other feeling towards her and it made her sick till in her stomach!! Was she so blind in believing that they could eventually really fall in love? Her heart had thought so but her mind was still a bit doubtful and now she wished with all her heart that she had listened to her mind!
Ever since she had signed that marriage certificate she had felt as if something was about to change and how was she right about it! Her mother in-law was most of the time either busy with her secret lover on the phone in her room or out and about while she was just stuck in the house still recovering from giving birth to her daughter Shana. Sheilas sighed as she wiped another tear from her tired face before she got up to get ready to face another day alone without her husband.
Meanwhile on the other side of the city, Micah just cleaned the edge of his knife on the sleeve of his shirt. Another life taken, another deal gone bad. Blood spilled and still he felt the burning rage inside him that spread throughout his body like a wildfire.
After the talk at the police station he gotten a call from one of his men that a camera had caught something suspicious at his yacht in the marina. So he had gotten there as soon as possible but caught nothing so he had returned the call to ask for more info about what was seen on the cameras only to be told that it turned out to be a hoax of some kind, infuriating him even more than he already was after the news from the police chief.
Snow a murderer!
That was the intel the police had gathered!
He knows that she is capable of things beyond imagination or has a feeling that she can but after seeing that nasty beyond recognizable body he almost lost it! Could she really have done that? he had thought by himself. Ever since she had run away after she had heard him talking to his mother he had not seen her, not until later after he had called her and met with her in secret and that was when things really had changed!….
As he poured himself a drink to settle his nerves after he had killed the prankster who had thought it was fun to take pictures on top of his yacht, his thoughts slowly drifted back to all what happened a couple of days ago, starting at the police station….
**Flashback:**
“Don Micah, good to see you, I have two things I wanted to talk to you about…firstly the case of Carlos, we have manged to find a small lead but that lead only gave away that it was done by somebody important, high up the underworld ladder but then the person who have us the info disappeared so that’s that! Now about our John Doe…we have reason to believe that a woman named Snow is responsible for the murder of John, snow is to believe living under your roof so my question to you is, do you know anything about that or that might help us, starting with how do you know her and for how long has she been living with you?” The chief fired his questions at him. Not wanting to give too much away of how she got to be at his home and why he made up some story which the chief to his happiness believed….for now.
That same evening he stood face to face with Snow, in the cave she caught up with him the tension was palpable. Micah’s voice was steady as he asked her about the murder, but Snow’s eyes widened in shock, not believing that he accused her of taking another persons life, but then he showed her pictures of the dead body and suddenly, a flood of memories rushed back to her, triggering some kind of vision.
In that vision, Snow saw herself in a castle with strange creatures who were small, looking like some kind of trolls and then it changed and she saw herself together with Micah, laughing and smiling in each other’s arms. It gave her a new feeling, a deep sense of love and connection that she had never experienced before and then it changed again and she saw the face of her mother appear. She smiled and looked so happy while giving her a gift, a snow globe telling her that once upon a time it would show her her true love! Then it hit her, the story her mother had told her long ago, the love story of her parents and that she wished for her the same! but all she felt was anger, sadness and hatred towards human kind that all came flooding back as she saw her mothers face. And then as quick as it appeared it was gone, leaving behind a heavy loneliness in her heart that spread throughout her body, feeling u
As the vision faded, Snow looked into Micah’s eyes and saw the surprise and confusion shining in them but also something else, something more like care….
¨Are you okay?¨ he softly asked while kneeling beside her on the rocky ground.
´Yeah i think so, i just…..i need a moment¨ Snow whispered still a bit breathless.
Micah fully sat down beside her while his eyes roamed over Snows slightly glowing and trembling curves. As he scent entered his nostrils he closed his eyes and took a deep breath as he scent traveled all the way inside him, engulfing him. Suddenly he felt a pair of warm hands on on his and he opened his eyes again.
Snow was gazing up at him with slightly worried eyes. ¨What happened?¨ She whispered.
Micah sighed and swallowed to get rid of the lump in his throat.
¨You fainted after i showed you the pictures of….the body and then your body started to glow and i thought…..i thought you were going into a coma again¨ he muttered somewhat reluctantly.
¨I had another vision again….something similar like i had when we kissed but this time i also saw the dead man appear i think and just before the vision stopped i saw my mother¨
¨Ok, go on, i am listening¨ Micah encouraged her.
¨I remember now Micah, the man is or better said was one of my loyal trolls but unfortunately i don´t know who or what killed him and why and when, if i knew i would tell you¨ Snow continued.
¨Okay so does that you remember your real identity, who you really are?¨
¨I am Snow, the Queen of the wastelands yes and i am supposed to kill…..i was supposed to kill……but now….i can´t¨ she whispered the last couple of words with a deep frown.
¨You were supposed to kill me, is that what you are saying, i am the one right? then what are you waiting for Snow? my life is already complicated enough so why not end it here and now Snow, do it, pull the trigger!!¨ Micah shouted while pressing his gun in her hands while pointing it towards his chest.
¨NO Micah…….I am pregnant!!¨ Snow shouted with teary eyes.
**Flashback ends. **