She let out a gasp.“Is that the dress doing all the talking?
“No, that’s all you.It’s not about the dress.It’s about the woman behind the dress.”He took possession of her lips and moaned.She was everything.
Nothing could ever spoil this moment.
Jane put her hands on his shoulders.“Wait, wait, I feel there is something I need to tell you, and I don’t want you to freak out.I was going to try and get one and take it in secret so we didn’t have the awkwardness.”
“You’re not making any sense.”
“I’ve skipped my period.Actually, I’ve skipped a couple of periods, and I know sometimes stress can be the cause.You know the whole ...someone wanting to kill me, but there can be other reasons, and we’ve not used a condom, and well, when you have sex enough and you get lucky or unlucky, depending on the way you view it, babies start to happen.I don’t feel any differently, and I don’t know if I am pregnant, but we’re not exactly being careful, and babies can happen when people have a lot of sex.Well, we’ve been having a lot of sex, and I am starting to feel like I’m rambling.Am I rambling?”
“Yeah, you are,” he said.“But don’t worry, I kind of like it.”
She laughed.“Oh, good, but that still doesn’t change the fact we’ve got to get a pregnancy test kit.Do you think we could get one?”she asked, and she nibbled her lip, looking a little worried.Did she think he was going to say no?
“We’ll pick one up.”
She smiled and it lit up his whole world.“That’s good.”
“I’m going to kiss you now.You’ve got nothing else you want to say to stop me?”
She looked up, and her eyes went from left to right as if she was trying to think of something.“Nah, I can’t think of anything.”
And now, he was going to kiss her.
“Incoming!”
Alexey didn’t have much time as he saw the car plough into the window, and he had no choice but to shove Jane out of the way of the oncoming car.
He grunted as the car hit him, but it wasn’t hard, just enough to send him a few feet across the room.He fell into a bunch of wedding dresses, and he was a little dazed.
The sound of Jane’s scream pulled him out of his daze, as he fought his way out of the dresses in time to see Jane being pulled into the car, even as she fought.She was not going without a fight, and Alexey growled as he saw a man strike her.
Pulling out his gun, he started to fire as the car pulled out, and he stumbled against the debris, which made him drop his gun.
He yelled in anger, grabbed his gun, and took off, running out of the shop that was now nothing more than a giant mess, with dresses all over, and dirt, and wood and brick.
Alexey ran out of the wedding dress shop and fired his weapon.
“You’ve got to stop,” Makar said.“You could hit someone.”
There were people on the street, cowering.
Alexey could only see red.
He had promised Jane that nothing bad was going to happen, and then he’d just seen her stolen right before his eyes.
“Morello!”he yelled.
He couldn’t bring himself to say words.The anger was so acute.He had fucked up, big time.He’d taken his eye off the ball, and now Jane was out there.
“We’ve got this, man, we can deal with this.Jane is going to be okay,” Makar said.“But we’ve got to get moving.”
They had a few people who acted as spies in the Morello camp.It was time to pay them a visit.
