with you. Why? Why does he stay with you? I do everything for him! Everything! I am what he needs. I was raised to be his wife. I fit into his world. I can be his helpmate but he wants you! Why?!” she screamed, and reached for my hair again, only this time she pulled out a handful.
“If you’re dead, then you won’t be in my way. I can make it better for him. I can ease his pain. He’ll be over you and fucking me against his desk again. Not you! Me! ” She reached for my arm and then threw me on my back. I felt her pulling my hair again. I was going to black out. The darkness was going to take me and I would be lost in myself. She’d kill me then. If I didn’t stay focused I wouldn’t be able to fight her.
“I can strangle you. No one will ever know,” she snarled. “You took him from me. You made him cheat on me. You’re the reason he broke off our engagement. He was going to marry me. You made him leave me. Now I’m going to fix that.”
I knew crazy. I had seen it all my life. And right now I was positive she wasn’t kidding. This was no idle threat. Something had snapped in her head and she was going to kill me. I had to do something. With my side throbbing, I wasn’t sure I could fight back. I would beg, then catch her off guard and knee her in the ribs.
“No, please. Just talk to Woods. I didn’t do anything. I swear. Don’t, oh God.”
“I’m done talking to Woods. You took what was mine. He chose you. Fine. He can have your skanky, crazy ass. But first you’re gonna fucking pay for taking what was mine.” She slapped me across my face so hard everything went blurry. “Hurts, don’t it, bitch? You’re a psycho. Why Woods thinks you can make him happy, I don’t know. He’ll learn. He will fucking learn not to screw with me!” she roared, then kicked my sore ribs again, taking my breath away. I had to fight back. If she kept this up I wasn’t going to be able to fight back.
I started to move when she grabbed my hair again and jerked me up, only to slap me again. I couldn’t keep from crying out in pain. I needed to focus on saving myself but the pain was overpowering me. My vision was blurring and I used all my willpower to push it away. I had to keep it from taking me away.
“Let her go.” Blaire’s voice came through the darkness like an avenging angel and I cried in relief. Then I turned to see her standing there with a gun pointed at Angelina. Holy shit. She has a gun.
“What the fuck?” Angelina said. Her hold on my hair only tightened. I should have done something to fight back now but I was more scared of the gun in Blaire’s hands than of Angelina at the moment. Did she know how to use that thing?
“Let go of her hair and step away from her,” Blaire said with command. I was impressed and terrified.
Angelina laughed. That was it. The girl was insane. She had a gun pointed at her and she was laughing. I was scared to breathe. “That’s not even real. I’m not an idiot. Go mind your own fucking business and stop playing Charlie’s Angels ,” Angelina said.
Blaire’s gun made a sound that I knew meant she was ready to fire. I had heard that click on television before. “Listen, bitch. If I wanted to I could pierce both your ears from here and not mess your fucking hair up. Go ahead, test me.” The look in Blaire’s eyes might have been meant to warn Angelina but I could detect the truth in her words. I believed her and the relief washed over me. She could actually use that thing.
Angelina let go of me and I quickly moved away from her while I had a chance. I believed Blaire could use that gun but I didn’t want to be anywhere near her target.
“Do you have any idea who I am? I could end you. Your ass is going to sit in jail for a very long time for this,” Angelina said, but the fear in her voice wasn’t lost on me, and I doubted Blaire missed it, too.
“We’re in the dark and there are three of us. You don’t have a scratch on you. Della’s
Richard Ellis Preston Jr.