THE TRUTH SHOCKS 2

      When Faith woke up that morning, Ethan was lying beside her, staring at her face. 

      "Good morning, sleeping beauty," he greeted with a smile. 

     She smiled and stretched her arms and yawned. "Good morning, how was your night?" 

     "Apart from jerking up from your screams last night, it was perfect." 

      Faith faced him.  "Yeah, I dreamt of my dad." 

     "What did he say?" 

      "I can't remember my dream but I think it's something from my subconscious mind." She made to sit up but Ethan drew her down and she crashed down back on the bed.  "What?" she asked smiling. 

      He kissed her deeply and she kissed him back, both letting out moans of pleasure as the kiss got deeper. Ethan finally pulled away. 

      "Why did you stop?" she asked. 

     "We need to plan what we have to do first. It's ten a.m. in the morning." 

       "What else do we need to do, if not to go find my mom in Iowa?" 

       "We need to get someone to fix the car, so we could get back to our hotel." 

       "Well, this place seems nice except at night when it gets spooky." 

       "And you need to return Nora's call, she wants to know everything that is going on." 

       "Oh, that's true. I haven't called her since yesterday, she is just busy planning her wedding. I should have called." She picked up her phone and dialled Nora's number. 

        Nora answered at the third ring.  "Hey, babe!" Nora's voice came cheerfully from the other end. 

     Faith stood up from the bed. "Someone sounds so cheerful this morning." 

      "I bet you would be more than cheerful when you would be getting married to the love of your life in a week." 

       "I'm so happy for you." 

       "Thank you, I am here with the wedding planner and she is just so superb—I don't wanna say that out loud, so she won't increase my price." She laughs. 

       Faith laughed too.  "I would see it all at the wedding." 

       "I haven't gone to pick a wedding dress yet, because I'm waiting for you, hun. Come back quickly." 

       "I will." 

       "Enough about me. What about you? What's up? Have you heard anything yet?" 

       "First, I have shocking news." 

        "I'm as curious as a cat now. What shocking news?" 

        "My mom is still alive."

        "What?!" Nora screamed that Faith had to remove the phone from her ear. 

        "You sure startled me with that reaction." 

        "My wedding planner is startled too. Sorry, wedding planner! I'm gonna move a little bit, it's my bestie on the phone here and you know how these..." 

       "Nora! I'm sure your wedding planner understood the moment you told her it was your bestie on the phone." 

       "No, I don't want her to increase my pay because I startled her." 

      "What? Is that even possible?" 

     "Everything is possible in LA, my darling. So baby girl, what does she look like? I mean, your momma." 

       "I haven't seen her yet. I heard that from the Reverend last night." 

       "What of her friend who runs the bookshop?" 

      "Well, she hasn't been in touch with my mom, because my mom faked her death and took a new name." 

      "Really? What of your dad? Did we misjudge him or what? I doubt it though. Not after stopping me from visiting you then." 

       "He was more than what we thought he was. A complete monster and more." 

       "I knew it. My instincts never fail me. Ah, Danny is here, I need to go, honey. You will tell me when I get back." 

     "I need to go to Iowa too and find my mom first. I will call you. Love you, sweetie." 

       "Love you more," Nora said and made kisses sounds.  "Ciao, Faith." 

        "Ciao, Nora." 

       Faith turned back to Ethan, he was lying on his side popping his body up with one arm on the bed. She started climbing the bed. 

        "So, what do you want to have for breakfast?" he asked. 

      "What I want for breakfast is you, how about that?" she asked and pushed him to lie on his back. She climbed on him and sat on his thighs, looking down at him with a sexy smile. 

      He smiled and rubbed his hands up and down her thighs.  "You are playing with fire, you know that right?" 

      She bent down and put her mouth to his ear. "What if I like to be burned?" she whispered. 

      Her voice made something shift in his abdomen. She took his hands and pinned them above his head. Then she kissed his lips, deeply, pushing her tongue into his mouth, still pinning his hands over his head. He felt himself grow hard. She had awakened the demon in him. Possessed, he flipped her over, that she was other him and he was on top of her now.

       He stared into her eyes and she stared into hers. He took her lips again, crushing her lips with his, kissing her deeply, letting out low hums as he grew harder and harder. She wore only a vest and her panties and he removed her vest, her breast came in sight, he grabbed her nipple with his mouth and she let out moans of pleasure as he sucked on them. 

     She grabbed his hair as he sucked from one nipple to the other. He left her nipples and kissed down to her stomach, down to her abdomen, leaving burning sensations on each spot he kissed. He toyed with her panties line with his tongue and she started to chuckle as it teased her. 

        "Why are you laughing?" 

       "You are teasing me..." she said and started chuckling again. 

        He pulled her panties away and kissed her from the foot. She kept moaning as he kissed her foot, to her leg, coming up to her thighs. Her body was on fire and she closed her eyes as he kissed her thigh, kissed her inner tights until he got to her wetness. 

      She let out a high moan as his tongue flicked over her again and again and her whole body went into a spasm. She grabbed a full mass of his hair, still moaning. Her legs shuddered in ecstasy as he flicked his tongue on her clit. When he had pleasured her enough, he started up again still kissing her, leaving a trail of sensation as he moved. 

      He took her mouth again, pulled off his boxers pants and kicked them away, she spread her legs in anticipation and gasped as he slid into her. Their bodies soared with desire as he thrust slowly at first and then fiercely. She rode with him until they both quivered with climax. He pulled away from her and fell beside her, panting like they had run a marathon and they burst into laughter. 

          "That was so good," Faith said. 

         "I guess, I'm the special kind of breakfast. Now, are you hungry for the real breakfast because I'm famished,"  Ethan said and sat up in bed.  "There should be a place to eat, one or two blocks from here." 

      "Why don't we place an order?" 

      "Why don't we just take a stroll and bask in the morning sun?" 

       "That sounds great, but if you are hoping that I would give you a grand tour then I think you should rethink because I don't know anywhere around here." She sat up. 

       "Then, we would find our way together." 

    Faith climbed down from the bathroom and shuffled into the adjacent bathroom.  "I hope these faucets still work. You know my father was a very frugal man and we barely turned on the heater when he was alive unless it was freezing." She turned on the shower and it groaned like a man in pain before a few droplets dropped from the tiny netlike holes and then water gushed out, hitting her skin. 

       "He was mean in every way." 

       "You don't say. To him it was discipline, he said we shouldn't be extravagant." 

      Ethan eased out of bed and joined her in the bathroom.  "In a way, that is good. You still have that trait in you." He rubbed her back as the water slashed down her naked body. 

        "I still have a trait of everything he imbibed. I lived with this man for twenty freaking years of my life and I'm just five years without him. I still find it difficult to wear makeup." She chuckled.  "I could remember the first day Charlotte made me up, I imagined my dad slapping me from the grave because he had slapped me for wearing them before." They both laughed.  "I still find it difficult to wear clothes that are—sexy, I turned out to be a hygienic freak..." 

      "That was the first thing that attracted me to you. I loved it that you were orderly, perfectly orderly." 

   She turned to face him.  "You are not just saying that, right?" 

         "No, why would I say that? To please you?" He chuckled.  "I think at this point, I don't need to lie just to make you feel good." She beamed with smiles and nodded.   "You remember when we first met, we were staying together in one room as room hates? I would always come in or come home to see a well-arranged room, and sparkling kitchen, everything was always just so in place, and then you made those rules about not touching each other's things, I knew it was because you didn't want me to leave your space filthy. 

       "It made me buckle up, you know. I had to wash out my dishes once I am done eating and I had to return the kitchen to the state you left it so you won't be frustrated. Even my room. I had to arrange my room every day and put things in place, so that, eventually, if you walk into my room you won't feel irritated and never want to come back. The day you cried over the messed up kitchen because of Jennifer, I knew I was in love with you."

         "What? Dude! You fell in love with me while I cried? That's so spooky." 

      He took her hands and placed them on his shoulders while he chuckled.  "I didn't say I fell in love with you on that day. I think I have been in love before that day. I didn't just understand it and a lot of things were happening and you were being so stubborn and I haven't really understood you then." 

         "What?" she let out a chuckle. 

       "Yeah, some of those times, I always had this uncontrollable urge to haul you against me and kiss you, but I was scared you were too uptight and you were hurting a lot. I watched you for many nights, drinking yourself to a stupor and I didn't even know how to help."

      "But, you helped anyway," she said and wrapped her arms around his neck. 

        "It was really frustrating. Your dad did a very lasting job here, but I guess whatever has a bad side also has a good side. Look who you turned out to be. A perfect woman." 

         "Now, that's an exaggeration. No one's perfect." 

        "Alright, near perfect. You are a near-perfect woman." 

       "And you are a near-perfect man," she said and kissed him. 

      They kissed deeply and the heat rose between them again, before they knew it, they were making love again. 

      Noah watched Danny and Nora as they went about the mall locking arms and smiling.  He wore a dark hoodie and jean pants, he had a hat on, a hat that concealed his face, and a face mask, he followed them at a distance. To get to whom you want to take revenge on, you start with their loved ones or you gather enough information from their loved ones.

        These two were planning their wedding and he had to know when and where it was taking place so that he would know when and where to strike. He won't go anywhere near Faith and his bastard lover for now so that she won't have any proof against him to get that restraining order and he had not called her since then because he knows she was lying in wait to use anything against him. 

    He had let her be for now. She should enjoy his absence while it lasts because he was going to own her and he was going to take down whoever or whatever was in his way until she comes back to her senses and realise that he was the only one she can be with. 

    Danny had noticed the man in a black hoodie following them. At first, he had thought it was a coincidence or it was two different people, but he had been sure the intruder was stalking them when he asked Nora to go to the mall with him. The man had followed them and despite the crowd at the big mall, he was always at close range, stopping a few meters away from them when he and Nora stops to pick an item from the shelves. 

        "Honey, what's the best punishment to give to a stalker?" he asked Nora when they were done paying for their items and heading towards the car. 

       "Call the police on them." 

         "I mean self-punishment?" 

      "Why? Is anyone stalking us?" Nora asked and looked around but didn't see anyone. 

       "No one is stalking us, it's just a question that was asked somewhere and I just thought of it now. 

     They got to the parking lot, where their car was parked and Danny took the bags and put them in the trunk of the car. He went and held the door open for Nora, she went inside, he closed the door, told her that he would be back and went away from the car. Nora was surprised and confused when he went away. 

       He met Noah trying to open his car, he tapped him from behind and when Noah turned he said.  "Hey, I think you have been stalking me." 

       Noah threw him a punch but he was fast enough to dodge it. Noah tried to open his car door but Danny quickly kicked it and it got shut.  He pounced on Noah and hauled him on the car, Noah slapped his hands away and tried to punch him again, he ducked and gave Noah an uppercut, Noah's head jerked back and he groaned. He kicked Danny on the calf and Danny lost his balance and staggered back, he went after Danny and pounced on him, and they both crashed to the ground, with him on top. He tried to hit Danny in the face. 

      But Danny who didn't want Nora to know that he had been in a fight, blocked his face with both hands. He flipped Noah over and hit him. Noah's cap fell off and before Danny could make out his face, Noah took out a knife and stabbed Danny twice on his side, Danny groaned in pain and Noah hauled him away from him and ran to his car. Danny lay there groaning in pain. Blood soaked his Cashmere shirt and coat and he removed his coat and managed to stand up, holding his injured side. 

        Nora was in the car looking at her phone when she caught someone staggering towards their car from the corners of her eyes. She looked up to see Danny all soaked in blood and staggering to the car. Her panic alarm went off. 

       "Oh, my God!" she screamed and ran out of the car. She caught him before he fell.  "What happened?!" 

        "Get me to a hospital first," Danny said slowly. 

      "Alright, alright," Nora who was confuse d, scared and surprised at the same time said and led Danny to the car. When she got him in, she went over to the driver's side, kicked the engine to life and zoomed off.