Bound by Tension
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"For herself. She's with another old dirty man again... jeez, let's not talk about her." He waved a hand, indicating that we dismissed the topic. He grabbed my hand then started leading me out of our house.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

He walked out with me then locked the door, shoving his hand into his front pocket and took out a bandage from it. "Blindfold." He smirked.

"I'm starting to get more suspicious and curious to know what this is. Please tell me what's going on, you know I hate surprises."

"You'll have to be blindfolded, baby." He turned me around then covered my eyes, holding my shoulders to carefully lead me to wherever it was he was leading me to.

After a while, he stopped. Through the tiny space of the blindfold, I could notice extremely bright lights.

"Just stand and do nothing, okay?" He said, taking my handbag from me.

I heard his footsteps walking away from me then after a few minutes, I heard his footsteps towards me again.

"Craig, take it off." He chuckled. Craig? That was his best friend, why was he with us now?

I felt the blindfold leaving my eyes and I almost went blind from how bright the lights were. I tried to cover my eyes but stopped after noticing we were in our backyard. To make things more confusing, there were red, white, and lilac balloons and roses everywhere instead of the elephant shrubs that were normally here and Craig was standing in front of me, grinning like the idiot he definitely was. "Turn around." Craig said sinisterly.

I turned around and saw grinning Rob with one knee on the ground and was holding out a very shiny ring.

I immediately felt giddy and almost lost my balance but regained it quickly.

"What's going on?" It was obvious but I still needed to ask.

"I know it's only been four months since our relationship became official but I've loved you for so many years. I was wondering, if Kade and Lila can get married after five months of being together then why can't I propose to you? I'll be travelling for the next one week and I just want to do this before leaving. Will you marry me, Nikita?" He asked.

I wanted to speak but my voice was shut and my tears started rolling down my face. Never in my life had you imagined that I'd be proposed to, at least not this soon.

I couldn't believe this. My body had frozen, my brain couldn't control me properly anymore. He was willing to get married to someone he met as a whore? What was so special about me when there were thousands of other women for him? How on Earth had I been fortunate enough to have had him come into my life? Especially when I had always been so interested in money rather than love and romance.

"Why are you crying? You can say no if you want, I was already prepared for it. I'll wait till you're ready." He rose to his feet, looking quite disappointed.

I threw myself to his chest to hug him really tight. "Thank you, thank you so much." I sniffled.

"Please stop crying." He raked my hair with his fingers.

"Yes. Yes, Rob. I'll marry you."

"Really?!" He pulled away from me with the world's largest grin on his face. "Wow!" He held my hand and quickly slid the beautiful ring on my finger. "I love you, Nikita." "Thank you so much. I love you too, Rob." I stared at the ring on my finger then hugged him really tight again. "Thank you."

"Thank you too."

After we hugged for a while, "Before I forget," I pulled away from him, glanced around for my bag then walked to where it was to pick it up, returning to him. "What's going on?"

I took out the envelope from the bag, passing it to him.

"I'm still confused." He took the test reports out of the envelope and his eyes immediately went wide. "You're pregnant?! How's that possible?"

"Yes, the only unprotected sex led to a baby."

"We conducted the pregnancy test but it was negative,"

"The pregnancy sticks said you weren't pregnant, they were negative."

"Yes, I know that, but I was still feeling so weird and decided to go to the hospital for a proper test. I was shocked when the Doctor announced it. I started crying, thinking it was going to ruin our relationship or something..." I trailed off. "Are you kidding me?!" He held my hands with tears of joy in his eyes, melting my heart in an instant.

"Rob isn't capable enough to have a baby, so this is such great news for all of us, it's a miracle from God that you're pregnant." Criag explained.

"Thank you so much, you're the best thing that has ever happened to me." He kissed my forehead.

***

I was almost sleeping but was unable to, so I was giving Rob a head massage while he was busy on his laptop.

My phone started ringing on the table. I rose to my feet to reach for it.

"Why is Hames calling me now?" I wondered aloud.

"I clearly also don't know so you'll have to answer the call to replace out." He chuckled.

I rolled my eyes at him and answered the call from Hames.

"Hi, Hames." I said with a smile.

"I'm sorry to disturb you or anything but it's really urgent."

My happiness was replaced with worry. "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

"Yeah... we returned home but Tristan and the nanny aren't here anymore."

"Tristan?! Oh no, what happened?" That cute baby.

"Someone said the nanny had said she was bringing him to us but she didn't."

"This is so terrible."

"If it won't disturb you, I need you to be with Imogen while I go in search of Tristan, so she doesn't hurt herself."

"I'll be there right away!" I immediately ended the call.

"Where are you going?" Rob asked.

"To Imogen, her baby is missing, the nanny has taken Tristan while they were at the wedding ceremony."

"Whoa, that's crazy. Why didn't they just take the child with them and let his grandparents take care of him? Why are you going there now?"

"Imogen could be crazy when she's emotional, especially over something like this. She can't hit anyone or hurt herself."

"Hit anyone? What if she hits you?"

"She wouldn't dare. If she does, I'm not that nice, I'll beat her up to knock some sense into her head again then hug her." "I'm coming with you."

"No, you're busy. She wouldn't be comfortable with you around, but me."

He sighed and rose to his feet to give me a kiss.

I grabbed the keys then left our house for one of our three cars.

I started driving the car and was driving quite fast to get there sooner. I could only imagine her reaction right now.

After a few minutes, I decided to give her a call to let her know she shouldn't do anything stupid, I was going to be there soon.

After I called, "Hello," that was definitely not Imogen's voice. "It's Daisy speaking." She sounded so worried.

"Why? What's wrong?"

"Mrs. Hendrix saw bloodstains in Tristan's room and she assumes it's Tristan blood and he's probably dead so she went completely crazy and she almost had herself killed after falling onto a glass table and her body shattered it. She's out of control now and I'm unable to calm her down."

"Okay, I'll be there very soon." I hit the gas pedal to increase the speed of the car, my heart was beating faster in fear. Imogen needed to be sensible enough to not harm herself.

My phone started ringing again. I quickly answered it. "Yes, Daisy?"

"No, it's Rob."

"Oh, hi,"

"Uh... babe... uh... which car did you take? Did you go with the public bus or something? Please say yes."

"No, I went with the red car."

"Shit!"

"Why? What's wrong?"

"Oh my God, uh... are... how... Please don't drive... fa-fast at all." He stuttered and I thought I could hear his heartbeat through the earbud, from how worried he sounded. "What's wrong? I'm driving fast."

"Oh no, no, no, please don't."

"What's wrong?"I asked again. This time, I was worried.

"Craig just called to let me know that he just returned the red car and the..." he trailed off. "You know what, don't pay attention, just keep driving, don't hit the gas pedal, don't do anything, just try to park the car." "What's going on? You're confusing me."

To focus on what he was saying, I decided to slow down to hear him properly and hit the brakes.

"Uh... R-Rob?" I said, hitting the brakes continuously. "The brakes aren't working!" I exclaimed with widened eyes, still trying to hit the brakes.

"Nikita, that's what I was trying to say but it was better if you didn't know yet as you were driving. Just act like you don't know and continue driving normally and try to park the car." He said, breathing heavily.

"I can't, the car is moving so fast, I have no control." I cried, still trying to hit the brakes but to no avail so I was driving past other cars to avoid hitting them.

"Please try to do something, please, nothing must happen to you." I could tell he was crying already.

I was trying to move past other cars but there were suddenly two trucks heading in my direction.

I had to stop this car, it had to stop, I couldn't die. My life was finally going great; I was going to get married to Rob, I was pregnant with his child, we were building our future together already, we were starting to have our dreams in life, my life was starting to have a purpose and I had a dream for myself and my family.

The loud horn of one of the trucks almost deafened me but there was nothing I could do to control this car anymore.

Luckily, I swerved really crazily to avoid being hit by the first truck but unfortunately, swerving made the car land right in front of the second truck.

"No!" I exclaimed. I felt the pressure as the truck smashed my car. The glasses shattered and got into my skin so deep.

"Nikita, please nothing must happen to you!" Rob screamed like it was going to so anything, sobbing.

I couldn't believe I was still alive as the car started to roll, I was upside down and very dizzy till another loud crash made me hit my head on a very hard object and it felt like my head burst and life drained out of me as my vision blurred. So I was going to die this way? When everything was finally great? Why hadn't this happened five months ago when I had nothing to lose?

I could feel my tears were blood and intense pain was striking my heart, every part of my body was hurting physically and emotionally, mostly my stomach. I should've known love wasn't meant for me, I was never destined to be happy, I was never destined to have a good life, why was I even brought into this world in the first place? Why couldn't I just have lived a normal life as a normal person without all the struggles, pain, rejection, shame? Why did I ever feel like my darkness had been blessed with light again?

Why? Why? Why was this world so cruel towards me?

I sobbed weakly and it felt like a large pointed glass pierced into my heart or soul and my head fell onto something hard again, making every breath drain out of me completely and I was welcomed into total darkness.