All The Right Reasons (The Seduced Series) (2 page)

“I
will always love you, and you will always be my love. I just didn’t want to go without you knowing that,” he said as he embraced me in a hug and kissed my hair.

I buried my face in hi
s neck inhaling his scent. He always smelled amazing to me. The thought that I could never see him again was breaking my heart into a million pieces more than ever before. I looked up and over his shoulder as the black suited men waited patiently by the door. He kissed me fervently as I wanted to remember this kiss forever; it would get me through the many lonely nights to come. I already knew that I wasn’t capable of loving anyone else. My heart would always belong to him.

“
I have to go,” he said against my lips. I stared into his beautiful blue eyes and let them mesmerize me for one last time. I reach up and touched his cheek.

“Bye
,” I whispered in a shaky voice. He walked over to the black suited men that were waiting patiently for him.

“I’m ready
,” he told them and they nodded. He turned to look back at me one last time with sad eyes.

“Why did the chicken cross the road?” I asked
him just before he left and through my tears, remembering all the silly jokes he used to tell me when we were alone.

“Why?”
He smiled.

“Because it’s loved one was on the other side
,” I said and it didn’t matter whether or not the chicken turned into road kill in the process.

“The loved one will be waiting
,” he said with eyes full of love and sadness.

I nodded and
smiled slightly as he walked with the other men. Doctor Matthews came in and started to ask a whole bunch of questions. I could barely focus on the doctor and all of his crazy questions, all I could think about was Dennis. From the time I first meet him, when he kidnapped me and brought me to his marvelous house. That night will forever burned into my memory, that night I let myself be seduced by a complete stranger that took me against my will and fucked me seven shades of pleasure. To all of the times that we fought with each other, knowing deep down that we were meant to be together. A stray tear escaped my eye as I thought back to my extravagant surprise birthday party he threw for me.

“Miss Moore?” Doctor Matthews asked, bringing me back to the now.

“Yes.”

“I asked if you were having any head trauma and you
just stared into space. Are you okay? Any headaches or dizziness?” He asked and I just shook my head. “Okay, I want you to be scheduled as soon as possible for a CT scan of your head, just in case.”

He jotted some stuff down in
my chart and left. About two hours later, a nurse came in with a wheelchair and instructed me to sit. She was very nice and sweet to me, probably sneaking a peek in my chart because of the CIA agent that stood outside of my room and what the paramedic saw in the ambulance on the way here. Shit, I’d kiss a little ass too if I were her. She didn’t know what I was capable of…and neither did I. We entered the CT scan room that was on the fifth floor. Once inside the nurse instructed me to lie on a narrow examination table that slides in and out of this tunnel looking thing. She briefed me on what the machine does and what I may experience. I lay on this cold table, feeling like an experiment ready to be dissected and shit.

“Are you okay Miss Moore?” The nurse asked.

“I guess so.”

“It will be quick. I’m going to leave you while the technician operates the scanner and monitors from that room over there,” she says and points to a double sided glass window. “If you need anything I will be there with technician as we can hear and see you through the speakers, microphone and monitors.”

I nodded and she took her leave. I heard the sound of the male technician voice come over the speakers and told me to remain still, it should only take a few seconds and we will be done. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes as I saw Dennis’s sexy blue eyes staring at me from afar. I wanted to reach out to him but he just drifted farther and farther away from me. Then the male’s voice came over the speakers again startling me. The time I spent lying here felt like an eternity but I know it really was only a minute or two. I would take that with me, the fact that I was thinking about Dennis and he was probably thinking of me too.

I was escorted back to my room and waited for the results. The nurse said that if everything was okay that I would be able to go home. So I took it upon myself and started to get dressed in my own clothes. I knew the test would come back fine but the only question was will I ever be able to see Dennis again? I stood by the window
and looked out towards the dark night’s sky feeling as my soul was just as dark and lonely now. The doctor came in about ten minutes later. He cleared his throat before he spoke to get my attention.

“Well Miss Moore, it seems that your brain activity is just fine. No swelling of the brain and no tissue damage,” Doctor Matthews stated. “So in my best opinion you may be discharged and if you have any headaches or dizzy spells I recommend that you re-admit yourself.”

“Thank you Doctor Matthews.” He nodded back to me and took his leave. Then the CIA agent that was guarding me came into my room.

“Miss Moore
, are you ready? My name is Agent Payne and I was instructed by Director Agent Winters to escort you back to headquarters, just as a precaution that you’re not being followed,” the man in the black suit said. I nodded as he led the way down the hallway while speaking into the sleeve of his suit jacket, mumbling ‘I have the girl and we’re on the move to the awaiting car.’ As we reached the ground floor and headed toward the black SUV, I didn’t even realize there were three other people in the car until I got inside the backseat. For that one moment, I let sorrow overtake me. I couldn’t even cry anymore, I was all cried out over him. The only thing that reminded me of what happened between us was the burning pain I felt in my chest where my heart was.

How could Dennis
be so sure that I was going to be okay without him? I would never. And then I remembered his words, ‘you will be just fine. Trust me.’ I felt as though I was missing something vitally important. What did he mean? Then thought about every CIA and FBI movie that I’ve ever saw. What did they do to the victims who were too traumatized? And then it hit me. Fuck me, they were going to erase my memory. I covered my mouth to stop myself from screaming. Not at what they would do to me, but what that would mean. I won’t miss Dennis because I wouldn’t remember ever meeting him. I won’t feel the pain because I wouldn’t remember ever falling in love with him.

Dennis Evers wo
n’t even be a distant dream or fantasy, and he knew it. You deserve a happy, normal, and stress free life, I would also forget about the power that I now possess. To me it would just be an ordinary plain ring that my grandfather gave to me, nothing more than that. Somehow I thought about Rick, I never needed him more than I did at this very moment. He was not only my first love but he was also a good friend and I could tell him everything and anything that bothered me. I looked around the car and saw nothing, everyone was completely gone… What the hell?

“Hey you,
” a voice came through out of nowhere and then I saw him, it was Rick. He was sitting across from me smiling at me. Am I going crazy? “No you are not, I’m really here,” he said as I looked at him in shock.

“Rick
? Is that really you?” I asked not truly believing. “But how?”

“
Right now that doesn’t matter sweetheart, I don’t know how much time we have together. I saw that you really needed my help, so I had to come,” he said.

“What I’m
I supposed to do Rick?” I sobbed.

“You already know
you love him and you want to be with him don’t you?” He asked and I nodded. “Then go be with him. What’s stopping you?”

“But…”

“But nothing. Of all the times I’ve known you, you’ve lived up to what other people always expected from you, you’ve always put everyone above yourself and your own happiness. You can be selfish for once. You deserve it,” he said chuckling and I smiled.

“But how am I supposed to get out of here? They won
’t let me go.”

“You have powers don’t you? Use
them and fight for what you love,” he said. “Oh and you were right, I do like him,” he added with a smile. I laughed as fresh tears started to come down my face.

“Thank you Rick,” I said
wiping them away.

“I love you, I always did. I’m just happy you found someone that can care for your broken heart that I broke,
” he said with a smile.

“I love you too Rick but I love Dennis more than anything. He completes
me more and I thank you for that.” Then Rick disappeared.

I was
grateful that I got to see him one last time, he was my guardian angel sent from up above. The exact same way I remembered him before he died. He would forever live in my heart from now on. I was one hundred percent sure that I dreamt the conversation I had with Rick up because I suddenly woke up. I didn’t even realize that I had fallen asleep. I looked around the car and everyone was here. We were nearing the city, I wasn’t sure where exactly headquarters was but I couldn’t just sit here like nothing is going to happen. I had to get out and go back home, back to Dennis, which was my home. I thought for a moment of all the options I had and they didn’t seem very promising to me.

“Miss Moore? Are you okay?” T
he woman agent sitting next to me asked. Then she gave me an idea that could work, I had to try it something, anything.

“Um actually I have to pee
,” I said.

“W
e are almost at our destination.”

“I really need to go, now
. Plus I have my monthly friend,” I said. There that will have to work. Another woman will truly understand when a woman has there period.

“Fine. We’ll stop at the next
gas station,” she said uneasily.

A few minutes later the car pulled up at
a gas station and I smiled to myself. The woman agent offered to come with me but I insisted that she didn’t need too. It would be harder for me to make my escape with her in restroom with me. She reluctantly agreed, obviously thinking that I wouldn’t try anything stupid. I entered the convenient store of the gas station and headed towards the bathroom, I knew that they would be watching me though the front windows and that I didn’t have time; soon they will come looking for me.

The bathroom was bigger than I thought
it would be, with two windows in the back. I tried to climb out as fast as I could, taking off my heels as I jumped out then breaking off in a quick sprint. I was slightly glad that the night’s sky hid me from prying eyes. It would look a little ghostly if people noticed a mysterious blur flash past them. I wasn’t sure how fast I was going because I used the energy from my ring to propel me forward. I also didn’t know how long it would take them to figure out that I wasn’t in the gas station restroom and come look for me but I couldn’t look back or slow down. I just ran and kept running without stopping. My feet were starting to hurt from the friction of the ground against my naked feet. I healed them as I ran. I breathed a little easy when I saw the estate from afar. The guards at the gate were more than shocked to see me, with bear feet and my hair windblown as they let me pass. I ran up the driveway, into the house and entered the living room. Carmella was cleaning up in the kitchen when she turned around and saw me and dropped a plate onto the floor.

“Angelina?”

“Yes Carmella, it’s me” I said when she walked up to me and hugged me.

“I knew you would find your way b
ack to us,” she said reverently.

“Where else would I be? I belong
here.”

“Yes
you do,” she said letting me go.

“Where is he?” I asked looking around
for Dennis.

“He’s
out back by the pool,” she said smiling.

I immediately ran outside and found him
sitting by the pool with the backyard spotlights shining on him, like he was my light to live. He sat in the exact same spot where I loved to sit and just think, how ironic. I slowly walked up to him. He seemed oblivious to everything around him, like he was living in his own little world isolated from everyone.

“Can I join you?” I asked softly
as I startled him and he looked up at me as he had seen a ghost.

“Sure
,” he replied quietly. “You lost?”

“No
,” I said smiling and then sitting down next to him. “I came to retrieve what is mine.” He smiled too, then turned his attention back at the pool water. “I couldn’t do it you know,” I said staring at the pool water too. “But I would have despite the pain it would have put on me, I would have done it because it’s what he wanted.”

“What changed your mind then?” H
e asked obviously trying to humor me.

“W
ell, when I realized that my memory was going to get erased,” I stated and he froze but I continued. “That was a deal breaker right there for me, I would rather have lived my life with the knowledge that he loved me too, that he existed, that every moment we shared together was real and beautiful. Just the thought of him would have gotten me through anything, but losing all of that would have been unbearable,” I said shaking my head. I could feel his blue gaze on me but I continued to stare at the water. “I cannot be expected to live without him, everything that’s happened to me in my life is suddenly leading me up to this moment…to him,” I laughed at my own confession. “I don’t care how this came about and what let us to this. I can’t even deny that this is fate.” I involuntary touched my ring. “But I’m going to grab it and never let go, even if it kills me. I love him that much, and you wouldn’t blame me because he’s absolutely amazing,” I said smiling to myself. I looked over and met his intense gaze as his blue eyes never failed to hypnotize me. He flashed me a gorgeous smile too. “What about you? Why are you here sitting alone?” I asked as he turned his head back towards the water.