Make You Mine(Redemption 2) - Episode 32

Cheryl's father's POV:

"Five minutes." The prison warden says quietly as he pulls the bundle of money from the table. I nod without a word. That's more than enough time. He pulls the gate open for me and nod for one of the officers to follow me in. It's a women's prison and some snicker at me as I pass their cell. I don't look to the side. I am not hear for them. I hear only my daughter's pained cries in my head as I continue on without any emotion in my eyes.
"Rachael Obaro? Someone's here for you." The officer hit his baton on the metal bars several times before I see the no longer familiar face of the woman I've slept beside for years. Suffering doesn't look good on her. Her eyes look sullen and her hair is a tangling mess on her head. She actually grins when she sees me.
"I know you'll be here for me. You took him away from me as well." I nod. I know she means Damon.
"I hope you've accepted Jesus Christ before today Rachael." I say solemnly. She laughs a bitter laugh and shrugs.
"Why don't you call me Francisca today? We both know it's going to be the last." She says.
"Do you regret doing all these Francisca?" I put emphasis on her fake name and she sighs like she's savoring the name. When her eyes open, they are not like a sane person's.
"I can't regret it

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. I made mama proud. She calls to me for the past few weeks since I've been here." I turn to the officer who shrugs nonchalantly. She's been acting crazy since they sentenced her to ten years in prisonment and my lawyers think it's her attempt to get out of her jail time. I think maybe it real. Her mother was also a nut job after all.
"Would you say hi to mama for me then?" I ask her and she nods.
"Here. A drink for your pain. It'll end Everything." I drop the can of orange juice on the floor in front of her. She grins at me and sit herself on the floor to pick the drink.
  Without breaking eyecontact, she place the opened can to her lips and down the whole liquid. I don't blink till she's done and she wipes the back of her hand against her lips.
"Thank you." She tells me and I nod. A single tear slips down my cheek and I step back. I see my dead friend nod solemnly at me. The first heave out of her has her coughing out blood and that's when I turn on my heels and walk out of the prison. Now I know this phase of my life is over. No one is hurting my daughter anymore. She's being discharged today and she's coming out into a danger free world seeing as Damon is already dead. Killed at the scene. I wish I pulled the trigger though.

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Phillip:

"I can walk, you know." Cheryl says softly as I pull her wheelchair into the side of the SUV her father lent me to take her out of the hospital this morning.
"I'll rather carry you." I huff as I carry her tiny frame in my arms and lift her from the wheelchair into the passenger's seat of the SUV. I try not to focus on the reason she's this tiny. Three weeks and five days. That's how long I had to watch my baby suffer from multiple bruises and drug withdrawal.
"Hey, look at me." I don't realize I have my eyes clenched close until she touches my face lightly. I bring my eyes to her soft ones and she caress my face gently.
"I'm fine. And I'm here. We'll be fine. That's if you still want me." She says and I frown. What is she going on about?
"Don't talk bullshit." She flinches at my outburst and I take deep breaths to calm myself down.
"I'm so sorry baby. Should have found you sooner." I say on a whisper.
"It's not your fault." She assures me not for the first time since she was able to get a grip of her senses.
"I f*cking love you woman." I feel her fingers catch the stray tear at the corner of my eye and I take the fingers to my lips and kiss them delicately.
"So you still want me?" She asks carefully.
"Why wouldn't I?!" I snap. She bites down on her lips nervously and fiddle with her hands on her lap.
"Because I'm tainted. With all those drugs. I'm an addict." She almost sobs.
"Shhhh. No." I pull her into my arms and rub her back soothingly.
"You're beautiful. Did I say that I love you with every cell in my body and more?" I pull away from her to ask. She smiles weakly and I'm more than determined to put more smiles on her face.
"How about your son and his mother. Juliet right?" She takes her face from me and I place my hands on both sides of her face to bring her gaze back to me.
"He wasn't mine. She actually lost my baby. She's a lying scum who led me and my brother on for too long. She doesn't matter." I say truthfully. It was easy for the police to trace Juliet and she was actually leaving with another man who looked like a thug. The boy she lied about being my son is actually his. They're married but she's hell-bent on getting revenge on me for ruining her life. Her miscarriage made her run away from her aunt's house. Yes, her aunt knew she was alive but wanted nothing to do with her after everything so according to her, she was left to cater for herself at such a young age because of me.
 The truth is, I was In love with her back then. If she had come to me, I would have done my damn best to help her. Now, she already made her decision. She has to live with it.
  I might have not filed a case against her sorry ass but I filed a restraining order. The moment I see her around Cheryl and I, I'm putting her behind bars.
"So we're getting back to our wedding?" Cheryl pulls me out of my head.

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. She looks uncertain and I nod quickly.
"Of course. Actually, that's where I am supposed driving us to actually."
"What?"
"Paris. Two whole weeks before our families meet us for our wedding. I need alone time with my wife." I say seriously.
"Really?!" She sounds lighter than earlier and I nod.
"You want that right?" I ask.
"More than anything." She says.
"Then kiss me." I whisper, my eyes shiny. She hesitates for a second and I make it easier on her. I duck my head to meet hers and gently place a soft kiss from one corner of her lips to the other.
"Don't tease me Phillip." I hear her moan into my mouth. That does me in and I put my hands around her to hold her closely to me as I let my tongue into her mouth to lick every lush space within. She holds onto me for dear life as I assault her senses with my kiss. A kiss of promise. Of forever. Of security.
"I love you so much Phillip." She shivers in my arms and I let her go.
"I'm so glad I got fired."

THE END