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I Will Not Let You Fall

Chad was finally responding to Bette’s loving touch as his crying became sniffles, then hiccups, then nothing. The boy breathed softly as he snuggled instinctively closer to Bette’s chest and nuzzled against her neck.
The brunette made her way out of the nursery while she continued to caress Chad’s back, singing quietly, ”Goodnight to you, it’s time to go… Goodnight, sweetheart, it’s time to go…”
Melissa was still busy with stuffing up the bags, so Bette paced the living room.
”Now close your eyes and sleep tight… Sweet dreams tonight… Goodnight…” she kept singing.
The front door opened and Shane came inside. Bette put her finger to her lips, telling her friend to be quiet. Shane nodded and tiptoed across the room to where Bette stood with the baby in her arms. The closer Shane got to Bette, the clearer Bette could see the tense expression on her face. Bette held her gaze firmly as Shane leaned towards her ear to utter in a low voice, ”Tasha just called. They found the killers.”
The information ran through Bette’s mind like an electric shock. She felt her temper boiling the blood in her veins, but, with her jaw clenched, the brunette kept herself under control.
When Shane turned to leave, Bette lowered her head to rest it carefully on the sleeping boy’s head and closed her eyes. ”Goodnight, sweetheart, goodnight… Rest, my little one, you’ve had a busy day… Close your eyes, sleep tight…”
”Bette?”
Opening her eyes, the brunette saw Melissa standing not far away, two suitcases by her side. The woman looked calmer as if having accepted the quirk of fate. Bette approached her.
”Ready?” she whispered.
”No,” Melissa said truthfully, ”but I think I trust you.”
Bette smiled weakly. ”You’ll love it there, I promise. You and Chad will be safe there.”
Melissa nodded, let out a sigh and hung her head low, falling deep in thought. Then she lifted her head and looked at the woman before her. ”Bette? Please tell me you’re not going to do revenge.”
Bette stared at her for a moment before averting her gaze, becoming extremely interested in small buttons on Chad’s romper suit.
”If you haven’t already, then please don’t do it. You can’t fix yourself or bring Marcus back by breaking someone else,” Melissa stated and then went out the front door with her baggage.
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Hi Valerie:
This is sad as you said, but it’s also a great story, Marcus has been murdered and his killers are dead, apparently, it was Arnodelo who planned his death and he may go after Bette and Shane.
What bothers me is that one of the killers said (before dying) that they had the protection of the cops, which for me it could mean that Arnodelo wants to show that Bette alone with her gang is the criminal head behind the drug trafficking, because, in that way, he will have a break from the police persecution, while Bette and the gang are murdered making appeared as it was a fight among gangsters.
Now, honestly, I think we have reached the point in which Bette and Shane have to make a decision, and I trust you, Valerie, that you will lead us, sooner or later, in this wonderful, and amazing rollercoaster-story to a happy end.
Thank you so much for this excellent and heartbreaking story, I will be waiting impatiently for the next chapter.
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I loveeeeee this dark story. Please update this soon.
Hey Valerie,
I am excited for the update, but i will read it in a few days. I need some happy and sweet and not sad and dark.
I truly enjoy your story and will follow it to the hopefully happy end.
Hey Valerie, i just read the chapter and boy you were right about warning us it was a sad one.
Especially the end where Tina took Bette in her arms and she finally broke down.
I still trust and hope that you stick to the title and that you will not let us and Bette fall.
It will be interesting to read how you are going to let Bette leave this mess and hopefully start a new life with Tina (and Shane) in Auckland. But that is my wish, maybe you have another end for this incredible story.
Thank you so much for for this incredible story!
I read the post 5 days ago and I’ve been contemplating about it since then. I definitely simpathize this Bette Porter, but I can’t decide for myself wether this is becouse it is still our Bette even if in a different incarnation, or because the circumstances of her life are so that we can’t help feeling pity for this woman. So what do you think, would we still like the main character if it were not Bette Porter ?