20. Love

As steel dusk encroached and bled she paced their day room wringing her hands.

After numerous e-speak and apprehension feminine resolve decided their action.

Elisa pacing the room as the past flashed backed, in spurts and spatters bloody.

Nodding her head at her ignorance, and denial, tears forming as the painful truth played.

Their men duplicitous behind a sparse web, her rose veil failing, knowledge breaching.

Mercury guilt scoured her veins crippling her at the knee to an involuntary genuflection.

Jo-al had passed on not simply left they had suspected as much, but ignored their heart and mind-scream.

The disappearance not coincidental but a part of this, this darkness, this terror to what end she couldn't guess.

James entered, seeing his wife he ran to her side kneeling he embraced her lovingly with worried heart.

"Love what is wrong?" his voice concerned, even shocked to see Elisa so, "Where do you hurt?"

He felt her body stiffen at his touch her essence cooling then burning him, and cutting him out, he flinched.

Stroking her faced he whispered "it will be alright my lovely, you'll see" his depth chilling.



Chapter 21 - SACRIFICE

Chapter 19 - MENAGE
Chapter 18 - BRIDGE

Chapter 17 - MONO
Chapter 16 - MELD
Chapter 15 - RESPITE
Chapter 14 - DAWN
Chapter 13- PRIDE

Chapter 12 - RITE
Chapter 11 - SPENT
Chapter 10 - MERGER 

Chapter 9 - THREE         

Chapter 8 - MET 
Chapter 7 - FEAR

Chapter 6 - NEED

Chapter 5 - MAYA

Chapter 4 - THING

Chapter 3 - KNOW

Chapter 2 - STUM

Chapter 1 - MINX