Action, Reaction and Consequences Ch. 09
Date: 6/15/2024,
Categories:
Loving Wives,
Author: byInkent
... could see it in their eyes when they had visited. Whatever they were going to do, he wanted in. If they didn't let him in, he would do whatever he could to rain hell down on Mickey, Mr. Jones, Tanya and Mr. Smith, if he could track him down.
When Matt left hospital, he moved in with Ann as, they felt it provided a sort of "safe house" for Matt in case Smith, Jones or Mickey looked to visit him. On the first night, they made love together as if it was something natural and part of their life. As they lay together in the afterglow of their coupling, Ann swore that she'd never let him go again. Matt leant in and kissed her gently, promising that they would move forward in life together, as a couple.
Matt was still signed off sick so, the Fire Brigade would take no steps to move forward until he was signed as fit to return to work, in some manner and then they would look at how best to facilitate him. They waited until late one night, before Matt and Ann went to his official address, to collect some personal belongings and pick up any mail. Back at Ann's he started to open the mail, what was unbelievable, he was still receiving the fifty-thousand-pound tax rebates every quarter. He told Ann that they were payments to buy him off whilst Tanya was undercover. In their conversations, Ann knew that Matt's dislike for Tanya went as far as hatred. She held no fears that he would go back to her. That was, until a few minutes later.
There was an A4, plain, brown envelope ...
... that had no address and had been hand delivered. Matt opened it and it contained two photographs. The first one was of Graham, sat on the railway crossing in what Matt assumed, was the last minutes of his life. He stared at it full of hatred. In big black handwritten letters was a simple statement. 'This was on you.' He truly wished he'd not been stopped that night when he ambushed Mr. Jones. He would have happily beaten him to death. Matt felt responsible for Graham's death.
He looked at the second photograph and froze. It was a CT scan, with two hand drawn arrows, circling what seemed to be two fetuses. There was a simple piece of handwritten text. Someone had written,'who's the daddy?' with a smiley emoji. The image had the small printed piece of information showing it was a recent scan and although he didn't recognize the surname, he knew who the Christian name Tammi was, the current name assumed by Tanya. He started to hyperventilate, as Ann walked in from the kitchen smiling. Her face quickly turned to horror as she rushed across to Matt. She asked him what was wrong and he handed her the photo. She immediately saw the connection. She didn't know what to say to Matt, she sat next to him and put her arm around him.
"Whatever happens, I'm here for you and I mean that. Whatever happens."
Matt found it incomprehensible to try and imagine how this would finally play out. He remembered the clause in the document he had been made to sign.The government would take ...