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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
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Eden walks out to look at the men who are trying to tear themselves apart. She raises her hand and her men step down. She recognizes a few of Ansel's men, especially the one that is leading the confrontation. He is the one she shot when she took the girl away. " Ronnie!" She laughs. " You have healed pretty well, haven't you?"He doesn't laugh or return her goofy energy, that's a bit fair since the last time they met she shot him. " You only grazed my flesh, didn't break any bones." He answers. " At least I can walk."" Thanks to heaven, Ronnie." She exhales. " I didn't mean to shoot you, okay? So what are you doing here anyway?" " My boss wants to see you," Ronnie says to her. " You are to come with us." Eden looks around, the men look like they have come to arrest the most dangerous man in the country when she is neither. "Is that why you have come with such a crowd?" She sounds disappointed. " I'm just an innocent little girl!"Ronnie looks away, scoffing. "Miss, we know t
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Eden hasn't been confused like this in a long time. Ansel hasn't called her since he asked her to leave his house and also she has been too scared to try to call him too. That doesn't mean that hasn't been thinking about what happened in his house, the confrontation, and how she blurted out that she loves him. She might have imagined it, but it's possible that he got kind of scared about what she said because then he refused to speak to her again. Ansel might be madly crazy, but she didn't lie. It might have been just sex and fooling around for him, but she fell for him a long time ago. That's why has ignored every sign that proved to be a red flag in him. She is still hoping that he is going to give up his bad side. She doesn't want to think of him ending up like the bad guys in movies, she hates it. This had led her to some kind of depression and that's why she is still in her room when it's almost midday. She hasn't gone out of her room and she has canceled all meetings tha
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After a long drive, Duke returns home. It's kind of a relief because he is living alone, without those soldiers around to scare him anymore and it comes in quite handy now that he has his own tiny family. He steps out of the car with the crunchies and walks to the house. " Hello, I'm home." He announces loudly. Melody appears from the kitchen with a spatula in her hand and an exhausted look on her face. " Oh God, your back." She wipes sweat from her eyebrow. " Didn't know you would be back so quickly."" I had luck on my side, I found it." He lifts it up for her to see and her face lights up in delight. They walk towards each other and he gives it to her as she places a kiss on the side of his cheek. That was a tease, she kisses him on his lips and he giggles, he is delighted. " I would go out and scavenge for other crunchies if you would kiss me again." She laughs, he is funny when he wants to be. "Oh, I won't do that to my husband." She shakes her head. " But here is anot
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He was going to be here tonight, she knew and had prepared for that. He has been ignoring her all these weeks, but she hasn't done anything to get his attention. She didn't come here with the intent to get to speak to him, no she came for the meeting and she was going to leave afterward. Now he has entered the room with a lady she has never seen, and she is trying her best to keep cool with it. It would have been better if that was just it, but that lady was having her hands all over him and she started to find it hard to breathe. She didn't take herself to be a very hard kind of person, who gets jealous easily, but here it is. She struggles not to let her jealousy show as he walks to the table. He has a blank look on his face and acts as if Eden is not in her seat. The lady on the other hand seems to be so drilled that she can't stop smiling, it's like this is the best thing that has ever happened to her, this was the sole reason for her existence and coming into this world.
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Eden can't believe that this is about to happen. It feels like she has just heard that the rapture is about to come. " When was this decided?" She asks Logan. " I don't know. " He answers truthfully. " Duke just told me what I have told you and that's all I know."Her heart is going crazy. Yes, she wants for the evil among Mafia to end, but she doesn't want Ansel to go down with them. " I have to tell Ansel." She says to herself. " I can't let him fall with the rest."She is already walking away when Logan catches her hand and stops her. "I'm sorry, I can't let you do that." He apologizes. " So you expect me to stand still and watch Ansel get destroyed?" She is agitated. " Let go of me!" She is pulling attention towards them and he has no choice but to pull her to a secret part of the building. She shrugs him off violently. "Listen to me, you have to listen to me." He implores her. " We both should be grateful that Duke saved us from getting caught in the net. Telling Ansel
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**BREAKING NEWS**** The whole country is in a state of confusion as much evidence has been released against the president and some members of the government and top military. He has been forced to resign and the vice president has just been sworn in.**** Many arrests have been made to link some top businessmen that have been in dubious dealings with the president. **Eden is watching the news from her bed. She takes the remote and turns the volume even higher, she wants to hear all she can. Duke wasn't kidding when she told him that there will be a cleansing. It has been just a few days later and it has come to pass just as he had promised her. She sits in her bed, biting her nails as she tries to concentrate on the images on the screen and what they are saying. ** The new president, as an act of transparency, has released the names of those arrested.**Eden holds her breath as the names appear on the screen. The military officers first, there are a whole lot of them, including