Chapter eight

Immediately after the small burying ceremony at the graveyard, I turned to look at where Nora stood holding hands with my life-sworn enemy. Jealousy couldn't help but spiral all over my inner soul and heart. Were it not for my well knowing of Nora, I would have fell for the charade that louis was trying to put on. The two acted as if they were so in love and so happy but I could see right through their lie.

My gaze then turned to her belly and love, warmth as well as excitement replaced the jealousy felt minutes before. The thought of the child that Nora was carrying was or rather could be mine, did things to me that I simply could not register. All I knew is that, that simple thought made me so happy and alive.

Maybe there was still some hope for us. I thought to myself. But the fact that it could be Louis' child too, my hopes were being dimmed every minute I was not sure who was the father.

Bracing myself, I walked towards where the two stood with slow steady steps. As I neared my destination, Nora lifted her head up and our eyes met. We held each others gaze for some seconds before she noticed that it was her way I was heading and she broke the gaze off but I couldn't miss the tension that flashed in her eyes. She immediately started talking to Louis who in turn looked at me with a despising look and I knew then that Nora wanted him to get her out of there to avoid me or the question that she knew very well I would ask.

Louis as hard headed as always, instead of getting her out, with raging anger, he walked towards me calling out my name in his authoritative voice.

"Tyler!!" he roared out my name. From afar I could see veins popping out of his head and he seemed like a raging beast who would stop at nothing until he destroyed me and whatever interests I had with Nora.

Nora on the other hand was rushing behind him begging him to stop whatever he planned to do and to get her out of there fearing that a dramatic fight would occur. Each of her pleas landed on deaf ears as the man kept walking and walking, determined to destroy me.

All that while, I was standing completely unsure of what was to happen next. My eyes never left Nora's belly at any single point. If that baby was mine, I would stop at nothing to be there for the child from the second he sees light of this world.

"I swear to God if you keep looking at my fiancee like that, I will rip those eyes out of your freaking ugly face !" he angrily gritted the words out of his mouth as he stood right infront of me looking as scary as hell and for a minute there I felt threatened but this was not the time to back down neither was it time to show that I felt threatened by his mere presence.

Putting on straight face showing no emotion, I looked at Nora and flashbacks of how we would go jogging together and after she had just run some few metres, she would start panting really hard asking for water and we never continued running.

As tradition, I handed her over my bottle of water and she whispered a quick thank you and drank the whole bottle as Louis stood there in shock. He looked like a volcano that would erupt any time.

"Louis let's please get out of here. I am tired." Nora whispered to Louis. Louis nodded and the two turned to walk away.

"Before you leave, I need to talk to you." I said to Nora. "And in private." I added turning to look at Louis who seemed reluctant to leave.

Though Louis did not want to leave, he had no choice.This is after Nora convinced him that it would only take a few minutes then they would head home.

"What did you want to say?"