 dark now was unfathomable. So I slipped up the stairs his hand firmly linked with my own. Peaked into the children’s bedroom to make certain they were all asleep, and headed into our own.
My waitress outfit held dirt stains, and when I pulled it off I noticed the bruises beginning to form across my stomach from the places Walter had kicked me.  That my children would grow up without me, because I had trusted him again. 
Eli was sitting soundlessly on the edge of the bed whilst I undressed, but I could see the look on his face that told me all I needed to know about what he thought. He was pained by my bruises. His eyes shone with a forlorn sadness that couldn’t be compared with anything else.
“Why did he do it?” Eli asked after a long moment, his lips pressing together as he finally broke the silence between us. My arms fell to my sides, and I pulled an oversized t-shirt over my aching body. I couldn’t wear anything more confining tonight. I was still so sore, and something loose would do me good.
I released my hair from the ponytail I kept it in, and let it flow in long golden-waves down my back as I moved to sit down next to my brother, holding his hand, I linked our fingers together, and pressed a kiss to the side of his cheek.
“I rejected him…I told him that I didn’t want to sleep with him anymore.” I breathed out, wondering if I could get away with a half-truth.
“And he beat you for that?” He breathed out.
“Couldn’t he just find another girl to sleep with?” He asked me softly.
“There is more than that.” I finally said, my eyes moving down to glance at out linked hands.
“What more?” His eyebrows furrowed together.
“He caught us, years ago, when we were together. When we were fucking…he was the one that turned us in. Not mom.” I had tears in my eyes just from saying the words, and Eli’s eyes shot right back to mine, shock and horror in his eyes. “He knew I was with you again, and that was why I was shutting him out. I think he would rather have seen me dead than have me be with you.” The last of my confession fell, and I felt tears falling from my hues.
“Oh Belle, I had no idea. I am so sorry.” He lifted his thumb, and wiped away my tears, leaning in he pressed a kiss to my lips. I returned it eagerly before pulling back.
His arms coiled around me, and he went really quiet. He was stroking his fingers through my hair, but he was also quiet as the dead. I had never heard Eli so quiet before, and I dared to sneak a peek at his face. It was covered over in a shadow from the darkness of the room, but the other half was illuminated by the moonlight. His eerie silence was starting to disturb me to the point where I knew that I had to ask him about what was bothering him.
“What?” I finally managed to ask him.
He stayed quiet for a few more long moments, and finally he looked down at me. “I remembered something else about the past. Something I didn’t remember before.” He whispered, his eyes were hollow. Dark in a manner that I had never seen them before.
“What did you remember?” My heart began to race, thinking about all the horrible things that had happened to us. The horrible fights we had had, and the long expanses of stubbornness that had kept us apart for weeks, and months at a time.
“I crashed my car.” He breathed out, and I nodded my head.
“Yea, but it was an accident. You were hurt badly, but you were fine.” I insisted.
“I remember why I did it. I wanted to die, Belle. I purposefully pulled in front of that semi.” He admitted, and my breath stopped.
“Why? Why did you do that?” I choked out after several shocked moments of silence.
“I didn’t want to ruin your life anymore, I thought if I was gone that you could finally be happy. That you might have a normal boyfriend, with a normal relationship. As long as I am alive you will never be able to have that, Belle. Never.” He admitted to me, and my heart nearly stopped altogether. I couldn’t believe the words that were falling out of his lips. I could still remember that woman’s voice on the other end of the line on that phone. Insisting she had seen the entire thing, and that my brother had caused the accident. I hadn’t wanted to believe he had done it. I had wanted to insist it was an accident, and when he woke with no memory of any of it, that it had been.
Had he known this back when he had woken up? Had he kept it from me even then? I couldn’t believe the reasoning. How could he ever think I would have been happy without him? These past few years had been hell without him. If it had been permanent I don’t know what I would have done to be honest. I moved to straddle his lap, and force him to look into my eyes.
“I would have been miserable, Eli. These last few years away from you have been like living in my own personal hell. There is no better description than that, and I can’t even imagine what it would have been like had you died that day. I never want you to think like that again. My life has never, and will never be better without you.” I insisted.
“I know that now…but I didn’t then.” He admitted to me, and I pressed a deep kiss to his lips.
It was inevitable, but right after that we fell into bed together again, my shirt pushed up, and his clothes pulled off, before he took me this time. Passionately, and with leave of both of our stress I clung to him just like I had when we first laid together. I was swollen between my thighs because of all the attention he was giving me, but that didn’t stop me from wanting him. He was always going to be someone I craved, and yearned for.
As we lay together after, tangled beneath the sheets of my bed, his arm curved around my shoulder, and his fingers tracing delicately through my locks of hair, I couldn’t help but to look into his eyes. To hear the sound of his heart beating, and lose myself inside of them.
 You won’t erase us.” I whispered. I was so terrified that he would; so scared that I would wake to find him long gone, having shut all of this back away again.
“I won’t.” he reassured me as he drew me in closer, pulling one of my legs over his, and releasing a low hum from the back of his throat.
“Do you promise to love me forever?” I asked him, pressing tender kisses to the side of his cheek, and over his jawline.
“Mmmm, forever, and always.” He mumbled, under his breath, letting a low breath from his lungs escape.
“Good.” I breathed out, and after a few more moments I was fast asleep.APPLICATION OF A COMPETITIVE ELISA FOR THE DETECTION OF BLUETONGUE VIRUS ANTIBODIES IN LLAMAS AND WILD RUMINANTS

A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (C-ELISA), using a group-specific monoclonal antibody against bluetongue virus (BTV), was applied to detect anti-BTV antibodies in serum samples from two llamas (Llama glama) experimentally infected with BTV serotype 10. Antibodies were detected in both llamas by 1 wk or 2 wk post-infection. Antibodies to BTV increased exponentially during the first 4 wk in both llamas and stabilized at an elevated level during the remaining 5-wk-period of the experiment. We evaluated the C-ELISA for 1,442 field sera from bluetongue-free areas, collected from 398 llamas in New Zealand as well as 451 elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis), 323 bison (Bison bison) and 270 reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) in Canada. Based on the frequency distribution of the C-ELISA values, we propose that the current negative cut-off value of 50% inhibition established for bovine field sera also can be applied to the sera from these wild ruminants. The C-ELISA values for other wild ruminant field sera collected in bluetongue-free areas of Canada from 98 native caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), 32 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), 14 moose (Alces alces), and nine muskoxen (Ovibos maschatus) and 15 yak (Bos grunniens) also were less than 50%, with the exception of three caribou samples. Based on our results, we propose that the C-ELISA be used as a rapid and specific test for serodiagnosis of BTV infection in llamas and possibly other wild ruminants.Scammers will posture as real services, but actually, they are simply out to get your money. They generally run in 2 methods. One kind of rip-off takes your repayment info and your job never arrives. You attempt to call them, and they just do not respond. One more scam