Forever Love (Fghter Club 1) by Marie Dominique

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for the dance studio whilst Alexia was still in bed. The children
have stayed at Tony’s for the night so they wouldn’t get too
wrapped up in what happened and get scared. When he’d finished he
went back to bed and gave Alexia the best wake up call she had ever
known.
    ‘ Well good morning to you
too,’ she said breathlessly and smiled at him. James chuckled,
‘Good morning baby, everything is sorted for the dance studio,’ he
said as he rolled onto his side and pulled her in for a
cuddle.
    ‘ Thank you,’ she said
looking at him, ‘I wish you didn’t have to go to LA next week now
but I suppose I’ll have Tracy and Sarah here and Dad of course.’ He
nodded and sighed, ‘I know how you feel baby but I need to go. When
I get back we can look into me retiring.’
    ‘ You really want to do
that? Retire? But you enjoy it.’
    ‘ Yeah I do but you and the
kids are more important and after yesterday, if something happened
to either you or the ki.....’ She put her finger on his lips to
stop him from saying anymore, ‘ssshhhh, it won’t baby, please don’t
think like that.’
    ‘ I can’t help it,’ he
shrugged, ‘after your car and studio, it’s set me on
edge.’
    She kissed him and they made
love again.

    22
    The morning after James left for
LA Alexia pulled up on the drive from taking the children to school
and noticed the front door was slightly ajar. But as she had left
her keys in the door the day before she thought she’d just
forgotten to close it, then remembered it was Ben who was the last
one out and he’s forever forgetting to close the door behind him.
As she walked into the house she looked round and nothing seemed
out of place so carried on with sorting the laundry out and went
out to hang it on the line. As she walked back in, she headed into
the kitchen to start cleaning and tidying up when she heard a loud
bang from James’ office, making her jump out of her skin. She
slowly opened the door and cautiously poked her head around the
door, someone grabbed her by the hair and dragged her in.
‘AAAARRRGGGHHH,’ she screamed as she was thrown to the floor, the
next thing she felt was a pain shooting through her ribs, legs and
head as she realises somebody was kicking her.
‘Please...stop....please,’ she cried, screaming out in pain. A fist
connects with her cheekbone and she felt the crack, she groaned as
her world darkened. When she came round she slowly opened her eyes
and after a few seconds she managed to focus on the person in the
room, ‘Rachel?’ she whispered
    ‘ Well hello there Alexia,’
she says through gritted teeth, ‘Thought you were never going to
come round, I’ve been waiting two hours,’ she sat on James’s chair
with her feet on his desk. Alexia looked around and saw that she
had trashed the place... emptying all the filling cabinets, smashed
his computer, ripped all the photos of her and the kids and sprayed
graffiti on the walls.
    ‘ What do you want Rachel?
Why are you doing this to me?’
    ‘ Oh please, are you really
that stupid!’ Rachel said with a slight chuckle.
    ‘ What?’
    ‘ Ermmmmm,’ she said
sarcastically, ‘I had my husband, my house, my life! Everything was
just perfect before you came back and then James dropped me like a
stone. Do you have any idea how much I really want to fucking hurt
you or even better kill you, you stupid fucking whore.’
    ‘ Rachel, he divorced you
because he doesn’t love you, he never has. For god sake you slept
in separate bedrooms. How’s that my fault?’
    ‘ Because it was you!, It
was always you that he loved!’ she stood up and kicked Alexia in
the face again, ‘BITCH!’ she shouted as she pointed the gun at her
“ Oh fuck! A gun! Oh no no no
please god no! Please someone save me, please please please” Alexia thought to herself as she was frozen in
place staring at the gun as Rachel
continued, ‘And now after nine years he thinks he can take
everything away from me because he