| Chapter 4
"You came back?" Dillon asked hopefully as I walked through the front door to our house. "Not hardly." I said as I looked him over. He looked miserable, slouched down in the over-stuffed leather recliner Emma and I had bought him last Father's Day. His hair was all messed up, but not like it normally was, now it just looked disheveled. A box of pizza was on the coffee table and a can of beer was sitting on the table beside the recliner. He jumped up when I started to go upstairs. "Come on Georgie, please! Just come back, come home. I can't stand not having you and Emma here. How is she?" He asked quietly as he followed me into Emma's room. I started pulling outfits out of her closet and drawers and grabbed anything I thought she would need. I gathered everything in my arms and headed to mine and Dillon's room. I was expecting it to be trashed and disorderly but when I walked in I quickly realized that the room had been untouched since we had left over a week ago. Dillon must have noticed my sudden shift as he stood beside me, he stood close enough that his arm grazed mine when he moved, but it still felt like he was a world away from me. "I haven't been up here since you left. I can't stand the thought of sleeping in our bed without you there with me." He said quietly as he stared at the bed, just as I was doing. I finally pulled my attention from the bed and to him. "Are you done?" I asked not moving from where I was standing beside him. "Done what?" He asked. "Being Alcazar's lap dog?" I asked as I rolled my eyes. "Georgie it is just a few errands. It is no big deal." He said as he sighed dramatically. "Well then I am not coming back." I said as I walked over to the bed and laid all of Emma's clothes out as I grabbed the suitcase from under the bed and put it on top and unzipped it. After I put Emma's clothes in, I grabbed some of my own and what I needed from around the room. Dillon just stood there speechless. He didn't say anything until I was heading down the stairs and he raced after me out the door. "Damn it Georgie, why do you have to be like this?" He shouted after me as I walked away. I had decided to walk to my house from Maxie's, where we were staying, so I could have some time alone. Now I wished I had brought the car. I spun around at his last comment. "Be like what, Dillon? Like a concerned mother, like someone who is constantly in fear that she is going to get a phone call from my Uncle Tony telling me that you have been hurt or killed." I yelled as Dillon winced. "You are really making all of this out to be so much more than it really is." He said as I couldn't help but to laugh. "I don't think I am. I am really afraid for you, but most of all I am afraid for Emma. She thinks you went on a business trip and we are staying with Maxie to help her prepare for the babies coming. She has no idea how much danger her daddy is in. God Dillon, if you won't quit this mob crap for me, then at least do it for Emma. As much as I would hate to do it, I will take her some place far away where none of this can touch her. Do you want her to wonder why her daddy never came home?" I asked angrily as tears streamed down my face. "Of course I don't." He said as he stared me dead on in the eyes. "Then prove it and tell Alcazar you are through. Call him right now and tell him." I said as I turned and started walking down the same path I had been down thousands of times before. Dillon followed after me and my breath caught in my throat and I stopped where I was as I saw the gazebo were Dillon had proposed to me some four years earlier. It seemed like an eternity ago. "Fine I'll call him, but please just..........let me.......please" He said as he came up to me slowly wrapped his arms around me. After some hesitation I followed suit and wrapped my arms around his neck and burried my head in his shoulders finally allowing myself to really cry. Dillon didn't say anything or try to move, he just gently rubbed one hand on my back as the other cupped the back of my head. He kissed my forehead as I pulled back. "Do you swear you're done?" I asked as he wipped the tears from my face. "I promise." He said as he lowered his lips to mine in what was surely the most passionate kiss we'd ever shared. All of a sudden I heard a loud noise and Dillon grunted in pain against my lips as I felt his body slam against mine like he had been hit by something. I pulled back and he was leaning against me, his eyes squeezed shut in pain. "Dillon what's wrong?" I asked as fear washed over me. He tried to say something but he couldn't get the words to come out. My hands slowly slid down his back as he winced in pain. When I pulled my hands back they were covered in blood. "You're shot." I said as he sank to the ground and I went down with him. He laid there with his head in my lap as I frantically called 911. "This was what you were afraid would happen. I'm so sorry......" He whispered as his eyes shut and everything became deafly silent. |