“Dark Love”
Chapter 10


Brad lifts his head as Kevin runs to the bedroom door opening it he yells out, “LITTLE CHARLIE, DOUG, DARRYL, DARREN COME QUICK SHELLY IS AWAKE!!”

Kevin turns leaving the door open as he quickly walks back to the bedside on the other side of Shelly, he sits on the edge of the bed with a huge smile on his face as they hear the others running through the house and up the stairs to the room where they were.

They all burst into the room smiling and excited as little Charlie runs into the room behind them busting thru the others to get to Shelly. Charlie runs to the foot of the bed and jumps onto it crawling toward Shelly as he fell on her giving her a huge hug. Tears flowed down his cheeks as he says,

“I was so scared you were not coming back to us Shelly.”

Shelly smiles as she looks at the others standing and sitting around the room she caresses Charlie’s hair as she says, “You should have known better then that. You cannot get rid of me that easily.”

The guys laugh as Brad lifts little Charlie from the bed he asks, “So how do you feel?”

With a confused look, Shelly looks at Brad as she says, “Different… Very different…”

Kevin laughs as he says, “I bet you do after all you are dead… BUT then again you are not. Figure that one out?”

“I think I will leave that one alone.” Shelly says she looks at Brad, “What should I expect from this?”

“Nothing really but eternal life.” Brad responds.

“So no weird things will happen to me?” Shelly asks.

“Yeah do not get mad or overly hungry.” Doug replies.

Shelly looks at Doug as she asks, “Why is that Doug?”

“If you let yourself get too hungry you will want to feed and I am not talking about raiding the frig…” Doug tells her being cut off.

“And if you get too mad you will find you will start to go into your true form.” Darryl tells her. “Well Shelly really does not have any anger issues so that should be no problem.” Darren replies.

“No but she starves herself some days.” Doug says.

“That will have to stop.” Brad says looking at Shelly. Shelly nods as she looks at Brad her eyes now a soft glowing ice green. “What is it Shelly?”

“I am hungry…”

The guys start to laugh as Shelly says, “WELL… I am…”

Kevin laughs standing up from the bed as he says, “What would you like to eat I have all kinds of things in the frig you may want.”

Shelly looks up at Kevin as she says, “What ever you think I may eat go ahead and warm it up and I will be down there in a few.” Shelly pushes herself to the edge of the bed as she places her feet to the floor. Brad stands to help her to her feet as the others start to walk out of the room.

“We will see you downstairs Shelly.” Charlie tells her. Shelly looks their way and smiles as she nods.


As soon as the door closed, Brad took Shelly in his arms and hugged her. Pulling her so very close to him, she hears him say,

“Thank you Shelly.”

“Why are you thanking me Brad?” Shelly asks him hugging him back.

Brad pulls away from Shelly looking in her eyes as he says, “For what you have done for me, for what you have done for us.”

Shelly smiles at Brad as she says, “I am glad you are happy about this.”

Brad gets a worried look on his face as he asks, “Are you happy about this Shelly, is this what you truly wanted?”

Shelly smiles touching Brad’s cheek as she says, “If it was not, I would not have done what I did that night. I love you Brad and I did not want to lose you and because of that feeling and my love I have for you I realized what you were feeling every time the thought of me growing older and some day dieing crossed your mind.”

Brad smiles hugging Shelly again as he says, “I am glad you do not regret the choice you made that night.”

“I could never go wrong with the choices I make when it comes to our love.” Shelly tells him.

Brad and Shelly kiss and then start downstairs to get her something to eat after her awaking from her life changing decision.


Two and a half years later, we find Kevin and Shelly out in the stables doing their daily work around the place.

“Kevin where is Grim?” Shelly asks him walking into the stable.

“I put him out with Spirit to pasture so they could do their thing.” Kevin replies shoving the pitchfork into the ground and walking out of Dark Knights stall.

Shelly walks into the office at the stable as Kevin walks in behind her.

“Where have you been the last couple of hours?” Kevin asks her.

“Me and Brad needed to take care of something’s in town.” Shelly replies dropping the mail to the desk.

“Yeah and what was that by chance?” Kevin asks all smiles.

“You sure are nosy today Kevin. What’s up with that?” Shelly asks him smiling at him.

“Oh nothing it is just a hunch I have.” Kevin says turning and walking from the office. Shelly shakes her head as she takes a seat at the desk to start the paperwork from the day before.

Hours later Kevin walks in removing his gloves plopping down in the chair in front of the desk. Shelly keeps working as Kevin tells her.

“Well if we are lucky Grim and Spirit might be having a new baby added to their bloodline in a few months.”

Shelly looks up with a smile as she says, “Really and you witnessed this?”

“Yep I saw it with my own two eyes.” Kevin says.

“That will be great Spirit’s owner will be very happy about that if it took.” Shelly replies.

“He better be Grim has been the top race horse for the last two years running.” Kevin tells her.

“He has made you a bundle. Hasn’t he Kevin?” Shelly says looking back at the paperwork.

“He sure has, but it means more money I can spend on my Nephew.” Kevin replies to Shelly waiting for her response.

“And what makes you think you have a Nephew coming your way Kevin?” Brad asks him with a hug smile on his face.

Kevin and Shelly look toward the door as Brad walks into the office as Kevin replies smiling,

“Just a hunch I have.”

Brad walks to the desk as he replies, “How do you know it is a Nephew maybe it is a Niece.”

Kevin jumps up from his set leaning down on the desk smiling ear to ear as Shelly looks up at Brad saying,

“I thought we were going to wait until we knew for sure and tell everyone at the same time?”

Brad looks at Shelly giving her a kiss as he says, “We do know for sure.”

“We do?” Kevin exclaims.

Brad and Shelly look at Kevin as Brad replies, “Yes the doctor called me a few minutes ago and verified it.”

Shelly gets up from her seat quickly and hugs Brad all excited as she says, “That is so awesome!”

“YES!!” Kevin exclaims all smiles.

Shelly and Brad look at Kevin as Brad says, “Don’t give it away. Shelly and I wanted to tell everyone at dinner tonight if we found out today.”

“That’s cool I won’t say a word to any of them.” Kevin tells Brad.

Brad smiles as he says, “Speaking of the others we need to get up to the house and get things going for dinner it is getting late and you young lady need to call it a day.”

Shelly looks at the clock as it read 5:23. “I guess your right time to call it a day.”

Shelly looks at Kevin as she asks, “You get all the horses stabled?”

“Yep did it all before I came in here.” Kevin replies.

Shelly nods as she says, “Then let’s get the heck out of here. We have six new horses coming in tomorrow and a very busy day with them.”

They walk from the office as Kevin replies, “Hey tomorrow is little Charlie’s Birthday.”

“It sure is and his new colt will be here tomorrow in that load of horses coming in.” Shelly says.

“Boy is he going to be excited.” Kevin exclaims.

“I hope so he has been talking about this colt since the day he saw him at the track.” Shelly says as she closes the stable doors.

“Does he know he is getting him?” Brad asks.

“Nope I told him he was too busy with school to have a horse thrown into his life.” Shelly says chuckling.

Kevin and Brad chuckle as they all walk up to the house and get dinner ready for the others.

Halfway through dinner, Brad stands up at the table everyone looks his way as Doug asks, “Where are you going Brad?”

“Nowhere, I have something I want to tell everyone.” Brad replies.

Everyone becomes quiet looking at Brad. Brad smiles as he looks around the table he says, “Well first off I want to say this is the happiest I have been in a very long time and I owe that all to Shelly and the 5 of you sitting here at the table. If you would have asked me 9 years ago, what my life was going to be like. I could have never imagined this for all of us or me for that fact.”

“Come on dude get to the good news!” Kevin exclaims.


Everyone looked at Kevin as Darren asks in a questioning tone and looking at Shelly and Brad, “What’s going on?”

“Yeah, I have this feeling you are hiding something.” Doug replies.

“Come on spill it.” Darryl tells Brad.

Little Charlie looks around the table at everyone wondering what was going on and why no one is talking as he questions, “Shelly…” Shelly smiles as she looks at Brad.

Brad looks at everyone as he says, “Alright if you all want to know.” Brad walks over to Shelly placing his hand on her shoulder as he tells them.

“Shelly is going to have a baby.”

Everyone at the table started to get excited talking all at once as Brad quieted them all down, “Ok… Ok… now that that is out I have something else I need to say.”

Shelly looks up at Brad as he takes her hand and lifts her from the chair. Shelly looks at Brad wondering what he was going to say and hopes it is not about the horse they had coming for Little Charlie.

Brad smiles at Shelly as he stands her right in front of him Shelly smiles back she was getting ready to say something as Brad held her hand and slowly started to descend to one knee in front of her.

Shelly felt tears start to well up in her eyes as the room fell very silent. Brad reaches into his shirt pocket and pulls out an engagement ring looking back up at Shelly he says to her,

“I love you Shelly and you have made me the happiest man I know. Will you marry me and make me the happiest man on earth?”

“Oh come on Brad that’s the best you can do?” Kevin exclaims making the whole room laugh. Brad smiles hanging his head and shaking it as Shelly looks at Kevin and smiles, she looks back down at Brad as she pulls Brad to his feet looking in his eyes as she says,

“I love you Brad and yes I will marry you.”

Everyone in the room started to cheer as Brad and Shelly kiss. Little Charlie laughs as he replies, “Could things get any better.” The group chuckles as they look at Charlie not saying a word.


The End…



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