Chapter Twenty Eight
Thousands of miles from home sitting in the grass with Shelby’s
head resting on my lap, looking out across the lake, cherry blossom
petals dance with grace in the cool crisp air, I thought of how simple
my life was before Boone disappeared and now my whole world has
done a complete three sixty.
My Husband was fucking alien napped, my father, whom I hadn’t
seen since I was five years old dies and leaves the successor of his
fortune which includes running one of the largest most powerful mob
families in the world, I have fallen in love with a woman that will most
likely break my heart, I have let myself get seduced by a possessed
Julie and I’m sitting here in China to spy on Jin Liang so I can get in
contact with some race of aliens called the Wanarions. Could I possibly
get myself into any more shit…Oh wait, I can’t have children.
Children was never really a topic of conversation for me and Boone.
At the risk of sounding selfish we just wanted to spend all our time
with each other without sharing our attention with a child. It
wasn’t that we didn’t want kids just we didn’t feel the need to have
any right away. We was never really the kind of people to goo and gaa
over babies and sure as hell didn’t think it was right for us to bring a
baby into the world until we could make damn sure we could provide
it with the best and care for it the way all children deserved. However
Boone would joke around every now and then and say when time was
right I better give him a little blue eyed Babbette, but now that will
never be.
My thoughts were broke when I heard laughter of two young lovers
chasing each other around a Ginkgo tree. I looked down at a sleeping
Shelby, her head rested peacefully in my lap, I don’t think I have ever
noticed that small dimple in her left cheek before. Staring at her
beauty she startled me when she whispered, “you know I can feel you
watching me…and I know what you’re thinking.” Caressing her cheek
lightly with my fingertips, “oh yeah…enlighten me ole wise one what
am I thinking?” She sat up, “you’re not alone. With me by your side…”
she placed her hand over my heart, “and Boone in here, you’re never
alone. He is with us every step of the way.” The stinging of tears set
my eyes ablaze, my chest caving in as I tried to breathe.
Here is this woman that has trusted me enough to let me love her
and allowed her heart to fall in love with me knowing all I live and
breathe for is to get to Boone. She understands my love for Boone,
yet she has never questioned my love for her. What web have I
woven… How the hell is he going to understand that I’m in love with
two totally different people and will he believe me when I tell him
that my love for Shelby has not and will not affect my love for him,
how loving Shelby is different than loving him, but never the less I’m
in love with her. She may be my sunshine but he is my rain, she’s the
ocean, he is a cool breeze, she is the stars but he is the galaxy that
holds it all together. Boone is the smile on my face and the blue in my
eyes, he is the blood in my veins, but together they are the pulse on
my wrist. Will Boone except this, will he except Shelby.
Pushing my hair behind my ear she kissed me softly, “you know you
can talk to me about anything right?” Looking at her with tear filled
eyes I broke, “I miss him so fucking much it hurts…” my air caught in
my lungs, feels as if the ground disappeared from under me, “It hurts
to breath…Shelby, we both know there has to be somewhere out
there better than this fucking place…what if he never comes back …
and now Doc says because of the accident I may never be able to have
children…everything around me is falling apart and I don’t…” leaning
into me her lips grazing mine she whispered, “shhh, Darlin, I know
where ever he is he is fighting like hell to get back to you…and when
he does he will not care if you can have kids or not…you know how I
know…because he is totally, madly, deeply in love with you just as I
am and that is what I would do.” My body collapsed into hers as she
wrapped her arms around me. Her embrace, warm, safe, loving
makes me feel at peace.










