Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 69759 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 349(@200wpm)___ 279(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 69759 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 349(@200wpm)___ 279(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
“Shut your mouth,” she snaps, “I might not kill you, but I can shoot and injure you.”
“Yap yap,” I mutter. “Get to the point. Tell me your grand plan. You want me to leave, and suddenly Riggs will fall back in love with you? He’ll just forget everything you’ve done wrong and the two of you will skip off into the sunset together? Is that it?”
She makes a frustrated sound. “Shut up!”
I cross my arms. “I’d like to hear how you think this is going to go? I’m truly interested.”
“We have a connection that your pea brain couldn’t understand. You have no idea what the two of us have been through. I am the love of his life, and while he might be hurt and angry, time will change that. I know it, even if you don’t. He loves me so much more than you could understand.”
I shake my head. “I might not know what you’ve been through, but I do know Riggs is smart and he’s not going to take you back when you’ve done so much harm to him. He’s not that desperate.”
“You have no idea!”
“Listen, Carmen, if I might make a suggestion...I think you should seek some help. Maybe some therapy, go on one of those journeys within yourself at a month-long spa in the wilderness, try a few other dicks, I don’t know. Just try something to help you move on because quite frankly, you’re embarrassing yourself.”
Her eyes flare. “If you don’t shut up, I’m going to do something we’ll both regret.”
“What happened to you?” I go on, ignoring her. “Was it something when you were a child? Bad parents? A shitty boyfriend? Did someone steal your make up? Did you get rejected? What? What was it? Because something had to happen to you to make you this crazy.”
“I’m not crazy!” She screams.
“Says the woman who is currently waving a gun at me,” I point out.
“Shut up, shut up, shut up!”
I exhale. “Look, I’m not here to tell you what you need to do. I’m here to tell you that Riggs is never going to take you back. I’m saving you thousands in therapy bills because they’re going to tell you the same. He’s done. He’s moved on. Maybe you should, too. Go now and we might just let you disappear without going to the cops.”
“I’m not leaving,” she seethes, “not until you’re gone.”
“Where are you going to send me, Carmen? Have you even thought this through? What do you want me to do? Just close my café and run away? I own a business, I have family here, I can’t just disappear.”
“Then you break up with him and stay away. Don’t go near him again.”
I roll my eyes. “We live right next door to each other.”
“He doesn’t want you!”
“Funny, that wasn’t what he was saying when he was deep inside me a few nights ago.”
She slams the gun over my head.
I didn’t think she had it in her, but I guess I pushed her a little too far.
The pain shoots through my skull, and quite frankly I’m sick of people hitting me over the damned head.
I clutch the side of my face and I can feel the warmth of blood as it trickles down my cheek.
“Are you happy now?” I grind out through clenched teeth. “Do you feel better about yourself?”
She’s a little pale.
Pounding on the back door has me whipping my head around, hand still against my face. Someone is here.
“Eve?”
Riggs.
I look to Carmen and she stares at me with wide eyes. She’s going to do a runner, I can just see it.
Not this time.
She turns and I lunge. I reach her before she even manages to take a few steps. I tackle her to the floor, head pounding, and then yell at the top of my lungs to Riggs. He slams on the door, over and over, and I know he’ll break it down eventually. Carmen and I tackle each other. She tries her best to get away from me. She claws and kicks, pulls and punches, but I’m not letting the bitch go this time.
I manage to get her into the position where I can straddle her and I slam her hands down by her head, pinning her to the floor. She screeches and squirms, but I’m not letting her go. No fucking way. With all my strength I hold her down, and even though my blood is dripping all over her face, I don’t let her go.
“You’re bleeding on me! Get off!” She screams.
The door out back busts open, and a minute later Riggs is charging into the room. He finds us on the ground and immediately pulls me off Carmen and then hauls her up, grabbing her tightly and ordering me to call the police. Dizzy, I go to the office phone and dial the police. Then, I go back out to help Riggs restrain Carmen, who is screaming and pleading with him to let her go.