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“So, how did it get to this point?”
“Honestly?If you think what I’ve told you this far was out there, you’re not going to believe what I have to say next.”I knew he was skirting around the issue with that story he told.Even though he’d said plenty, I could see the holes in it from Mars.
“She’s actually at the heart of this whole thing.She wanted to be one of them.She wanted to be with the in crowd, and Mary and her dad knew that and played on it.I didn’t know this at the time, but now I guess the whole world knows that she’d been after me even before I knew she existed.She’s been stalking me for years with her dad’s help.”
I’d read that post from MengeLiNi days ago and didn’t think much of it, even though there was more than enough evidence.By then, I was reaching burnout from all the daily rumors and wanted to save my sanity, so I stopped paying attention and told myself that I no longer cared.
“You’re saying that whole thing was true?”He nodded his head before going on.
“I guess part of it was that she fits the pattern of who they thought I should be with.She’s also part of the church, someone they could control while she got what she wanted and kept me in line, I guess.”
“And she wanted you.”He didn’t answer, but he didn’t have to.This was better than any movie script that ever came across my desk, only in freaking L.A.
“So, you got into bed with that adulterous hag and destroyed my life.”
“Adulterous hag, what are you talking about?”
“Oh, didn’t you know?Mary, she cheated on her first husband with the second; come to think of it, he was married too at the time.These are the people you trusted with your spiritual guidance.Those people will never end well.But what do you care?You’re one of them.A bunch of deviant assholes with loose morals and no ethics whatsoever.”
“That Satan’s bed wench and the creatures she spawned are going to rue the day they messed with me.”It was too much to take in at once.I’d listened to everything he said, and though some of it was hard to believe, I don’t know why he’d make up something as horrible as all that.
Some of what he shared was new, but some of it I could’ve guessed on my own.I knew all along, or suspected, that Mary and her spawn Nicole and Noel were somehow involved.I knew it from the moment I distanced myself from them, and they got close to Janie.“Evil twits should burn in hell, and I’ll be just the one to send them there.”
“Don’t go doing anything crazy… I didn’t mean it like that.”He backtracked really fast after the look I gave him.
“You roll around with the devil, and I’m the one who’s crazy.Life really does have hands, and it sure kicks the shit out of the innocent.”
“She never loved me, you know.I was just an ideal to her.Someone to pay her and her family’s bills while she got to play the part of the rich man’s wife.”
“That’s what you deserve.How stupid are you?You married a super fan that seems more obsessed with your ex than she is with you.”Hit him where it hurts is my new motto.
“I know, you’re right.How could I have been so blind?I was so damn stupid.”
“Yes, you were, and you are.So, moving right along because I have no interest in whatever pity party you’re about to throw yourself, you mentioned that someone shared all of this information with you lately.But why now?Why did the person choose to come forward with this information now, after all these years?And why are you really here?”
“Because they’re planning to kill you.”
“Who’s planning to kill who?What are you talking about?”
“Janie and her dad are going to kill you.”
Chapter 42
*Elena*
“Don’t panic.I have everything under control.No one is going to hurt you.”I couldn’t help laughing at the worried look on his face.Then he looked really concerned when that laughter turned into howls of pure cackling.I was sure he thought I was losing my shit, but nothing could be further from the truth.My mind was as clear as a bell in the Italian countryside.
“Elena, what…?”
“Do you know what killing people with kindness does to them, Ryder?It eats them up inside, especially when they’ve done you wrong.Though they may have no conscience, some part of them, some minuscule thread of humanity, destroys them little by little.”
“I’ve always taken the high road.I’ve always shown kindness.Even when I was being torn apart inside and out, I put a smile on my face, and I never hit back, but there’s no way.I want them to pay.You think I’m afraid of some washed-up never has been an actor and his crackhead of a daughter?”I laughed even louder.
His eyes widened when I cracked my neck from side to side and rolled my shoulders like a prize fighter about to get into the ring.“You know what your problem is, Ryder; your spiritual leader works for the wrong team, I never did, but sometimes, good people go rogue.”
“I don’t understand; what’re you planning to do?”
“I’ll tell you later, but first, I want you to write down everything you did to me, including all the women you cheated on me with.”