Chapter 8

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"Yes," she replies softly. "I know that Sadie is meant for something big, and you, my darling Raven, are meant to be by her side." I just nod, still unable to really comprehend what she had just revealed. I continue staring at one place. Completely focused and lost in mind. "Hey," her soft voice greets, and I am pulled from my confusing thoughts. Beth greets her back, but I just face Sadie, not really knowing what to do or say. "How are you feeling today?" Beth asks her. *Better" *Do you know who the father of your baby is?" I blurt it out like an idiot. She looks offended but nods her head. I honestly didn't mean to hurt her feelings or misunderstand her. I was just worried that she didn't really know. *I'm sorry, I didn't mean to come off as insensitive... Because of how I found you, I'm afraid that something like that had already happened before." We didn't know much about her. My worry was that she had been taken advantage of, given the tortured screams I heard in my dreams and the state I found her in. It was obvious I would be concerned. "It's okay... I understand." We are all quiet for a while. Each of us lost in our own minds. "You'll have to inform the soon-to-be father," Beth finally breaks the silence. Panic and fear flashes in Sadie's eyes at Beth's words. She starts shaking her head as a tremble takes over her body. She genuinely looked scared. This made me really curious. Why would she be afraid of her baby's father? "I can't," she says as a battle rages on in her eyes. She was trying to calm herself down, but it wasn't working at all. "Why not?" I question, curiously. "Every man deserves to know when they've fathered a child. "I just can't," Sadie insists, instead of answering. It wasn't a really good answer, so I continue pushing. "Why the hell not?" "Because he's the one who banished me. The one that tortured me. All my suffering has been because of that fucking bastard" She shouts shocking the crap out of me. She then proceeds to tell us everything that happened. She doesn't tell us the name of the man, but she tells us every cruel thing he did to her and how everyone except one person turned on her without so much as a second thought. By the time she's done narrating the hell she's been through these past couple of months, we are all a sobbing mess. It was gut-wrenching how cruel they were to her. No wonder she looked like she was halfway through death's door when I found her. "I know what they did was terrible, but either way, this man, whoever he is needs to know he's going to be a father. What he decides to do with that information is up to him, but at least you tried," Beth says gently, while holding her hand. I take her other hand. The need to comfort her was riding me hard. "Beth is right. He deserves to know," I add. "But what if he doesn't want anything to do with the baby?" her voice is small as she asks. *Then that's his problem. We'll help you raise him or her. You won't be alone", I assure her, and Beth nods her head. "He banished me. Given his treatment and hatred of me, he'll want to hurt me. What if he hurts me and the baby?" I did understand where she was coming from, but she had to do this. It'll kill her slowly, knowing that she never told him. I've seen it before with my mother. I never understood the haunted look in her eyes. Not until I read one of her journals after she died. She wrote that her biggest regret was never telling me who my father was and never telling my father she was pregnant. Knowing the pain of growing up without a dad, I don't want the same for her baby. That is, if there is a chance of the father accepting him or her. I turn to her with a determined look. "Don't worry about it. I'll go with you and I won't let him harm you." I vow. "He'll have to go through me before he can get to you."

Chapter 8

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