Commander Nykon Reev
“I have something that we need to discuss,” I said walking into my former home.
“Yes, it is true. I thought you should hear it from me before you hear it from others. The leaders have already granted it. Where to be married this week,” I said to her.
She was silent. I could tell the emotions running through her were complex.
“Nothing will be different. He is my son. I love him. I will still spend as much time, if not more, with him as I do now. The only difference is he will have a new female in his life, a mother figure of sorts,” I said.
“Because I love her, that is why. She makes me happy, and I make her happy,” I said.
“Just as I do not understand you cheating on me with another,” I said to her.
She was silent again. She could not respond to that. She was the one that I understand her choices.
“You should know that I am not doing this out of spite. I am not doing this to hurt you. This has nothing to do with you. I am only telling you because we share a child together. I thought you should know. I have moved on, just as you have. Let us be civil to each other and behave in a friendly manner for the sake of our son. We owe him that much,” I said.
“I understand. You should also know that she is pregnant. I am to have another child,” I said.
“Yes, it is true. Again, I wanted you to know before someone else told you. I am going to have a family with this human. She will be my wife. Our son will be part of this family. Because of this, you will also be a part of it, whether you like it or not. I hope that you can make this easy for all of us. Do not confront her like you did last time,” I said.
“Yes, of course, I do. She told me. You frightened her. But you do not frighten me. Your threats mean nothing. I hope that you will learn to let go. You are with another now; just be happy,” I said to her.
“Yes, that is true. But Nykon, I didn't threaten her out of jealousy. I want you to know that. I did want you to find someone else; I assumed it would be a Zenkian female. But the reason I threatened her was because I thought you would get into trouble seeing a human; it is the law. I did not want to see our son suffer when his father was taken away from him. That is the only reason I said something to her,” she said.
“I understand. When you put it that way, I understand why you spoke up. But you do not have to be worried about that now. I will not be punished. It is all set. Everything will be fine. Now I want you to try to be friendly, or at least civil,” I said.
I hugged her. We had been through a lot together. She was my first love. If she had not broken my heart, perhaps she would still be my love, but that is not the way things turned out. Things turned out very differently. We were two different people now. There was a lot that had changed, and we were both happy. I was glad. Things weren't the way I had expected them to turn out, but after I met Amber, things drastically changed.
“I must go now. I will pick up our son tomorrow morning as scheduled,” I said.
“No, I will do that. I will introduce him to her. We have it all planned out. You don't need to do anything but have him ready in the morning. This is going to work. You have nothing to worry about,” I said.
Then I walked out and closed the door behind me. I had just closed a chapter of my life. Now I could start the new chapter with the human female Amber. I was excited to see what was ahead of us. It was going to be a wild ride.