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She gets home with a heaviness in her heart, no matter how much she tries, she can't stop thinking about the girl in the basement. Darla comes into her room, she is too deep in thought to notice. Darla has to knock on the door for Eden to come back to reality. " I'm sorry to disturb you, young Madam." She apologizes. " No, it's fine, Darla, what do you need?" She heaves as she looks at her. " You haven't told me what you would like for dinner," Darla says. " Dinner, it's almost midnight." " You haven't had a good meal today." Darla reminds her. Eden can't even remember that she hasn't eaten well today. With the events that happened, she has even lost her appetite. " I don't want you to go to bed hungry, your mum never liked that," Darla tells her. Eden pulls at her own hair, trying to find a way to get all the anger out of her before she screams at her housekeeper, but it doesn't work. " You know what, Darla?" She stands up. " I just met this poor girl, who probably hasn't
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Eden holds on to Tonya and they run through the door. It The way Tonya follows her in confusion, she definitely doesn't remember coming up into the house, she was probably unconscious. She is sobbing, but she is running with Eden. She keeps her close by her side. She is holding her gun firmly in her hand, in case anyone tries to stop her. Suddenly the housekeeper appears in front of her and the woman whimpers as she throws her hands in the air. Eden is cluelessly pointing the gun at her, she knows that the woman might not try to stop her, but she doesn't trust anyone. The woman herself is confused, Eden can see it. " Stay right where you are." She warns. " Please, don't kill me." The woman begs, her hands are shaking. Eden still keeps the gun pointed at her, she looks harmless though, but a bitter fact comes to mind. Ansel is not going to spare her, it doesn't matter if she tries to stop her or not. " I won't say anything, please let me live. " The woman begs with tears in
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The time has come, and Bloom is going to tell them about everything that he has found about Tonya. Duke is behind the sofa that Eden and Melody are sitting on, they are all waiting to hear what information he has brought back. " Her name is Tonya Aguilera. " he starts. " She is nine years old and is from the remote village on Padre island. " He says. " Her parents are poor plantation workers and a UNICEF worker found something peculiar about her." " Peculiar? What is that supposed to mean?" Eden rubs her neck. " Tonya has a blood different from that of everyone, her blood contains special antigens that if buttressed upon, they can be used to fight incurable diseases." Bloom continues. " Some rich pharmaceutical companies were fighting to " buy" her from her family for a huge amount of money, but they refused." " Buy her?" Melody looks around in horror. She surely doesn't even know half of what's going on in the businesses of rich people. " Her parents refused and even threatene
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What?!Eden is in shock right now, her jaw falls to the ground. " Shit, shit, shit." She runs all the way down to the stairs and grabs Melody by her shoulders. " I thought you said you would be due in a few days?"" It just happened!" Melody grabs her with her iron fingers. Eden is clueless, she doesn't know what to do. " Okay, are you hurt anywhere?" Eden looks at her. Except for the small pool of water at her feet, she looks fine. "I don't think so." Melody is breathing through her mouth. " Oh, my God."Eden holds her hand over her forehead, this is not what she was expecting when she came to Sunville. " Ahhhh! Jesus!" Melody shrieks and grabs Eden's hand and squeezes the hell out of it. " It's ripping me apart!"" Oh shit, we have to go to the hospital!" Eden decides. " I have to find a way to take you to the hospital, I'm calling Duke." She sits Melody down slowly and grabs her phone, she starts to dial his number, but it's not going. What a day! What a time for Duke's line
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Duke freezes. His hand goes to her face, she is crying so much that it's breaking his heart. He cups the side of her face and she cries hysterically. " I can't do it, I'm sorry I can't!" She sobs loudly. The doctor's attention is drawn to them and so is that of the nurses around. They gather around them. "Ma'am, is there a problem?" The doctor asks. " Duke, I'm sorry!" She keeps on crying. " I'm trying to feel it, but I can't!""Ma'am–"" Get out," Duke says under his breath. "Just tell us the problem, we can help." Duke turns to the and they take a fearful step back. Duke's eyes are bloodshot, his teeth clenched together. " Get out! All of you, get the hell out! Leave!" He hits the wall and it shakes. The terrified doctor and nurses don't argue, they leave immediately. Melody has tears flowing down her face like a river, she is totally heartbroken. Duke goes to her side and she holds onto his shirt, clutching as much of the material as she can get. " Duke, I don't hate hi
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Bloom and Eden are back at the hospital, they rush out of the elevator and run towards Duke when they see him. He is still holding the baby and Eden takes him away immediately. " What happened, boss?" Bloom asked. " Melody is not in her room." The fear in Duke's voice. " She just left without a word."" Oh, my God." Bloom knows it's bad. " That bitch." Eden swears. " I knew that she wasn't up to no good." " Eden.." Bloom shakes his head at her, she shouldn't be saying all of that stuff in front of Duke. " Have you informed the staff?"Bloom looks around. " What are they going to do?" Eden scorns. " Tie her up and bring her back? If she doesn't want to stay, that's fine. "" Maybe she panicked." Duke is still defensive of her. " Yeah, but that's not enough reason to dip, the child did nothing to her." Eden looks at the innocent baby that is probably going through hell. As why? Because his mother doesn't want him anymore and he hasn't even aged more than a few days. " I am goin
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Duke walks back to the hospital. His hands are deep in his pockets as he strolls down the block. He comes to where he is supposed to cross the road and he walks straight in. A racing car stops with a screech and angrily honks at him, but he gives the driver a little wave and keeps on walking. He gets to the hospital and walks in. He gets to see the room and meets Melody on the bed. He gives her a kiss on her forehead. " Hey, have you seen Bloom and Eden?" He asks. " Yeah, they went to get some clothes from the house," Eden answers. " Seriously?" He snorts. " They should have called at least and not disappeared like that." He goes to the flowers and rearranges them and then comes back to her. He sits on the chair that is made available by the side of the bed. " Duke, I want to tell you something." She looks down at her nails. " What?" He is startled. " Okay." She waits for him to sit really still in his seat before she exhales and gets ready to start again. " I called Jace
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Finally, Melody has been released from the hospital, and Bloom and Eden go to the house with them. The baby is asleep upstairs and it's just the four of them in the living room. " Well, it feels good to be home." Melody opens up. " It's good to see that you and Duke are not trying to rip each other's heads up anymore," Eden comments with a smile. " Seems that parenthood has matured both of you really fast." Duke and Eden just look at each other and smile, that is all that they do. " We are going to work on our relationship," Duke says, keeping his eyes on Melody with a fond smile. " Maybe Carter being born is a huge miracle on its own."" So you guys are basically back to being married?" She questions. " Yes." Melody answers. " To be honest, it wasn't the best for us when we were apart from each other and we are still going to come back to each other."" Congratulations, boss." Bloom chuckles, he is equally happy for them. The empty glasses that they had used to drink are on t