Total pages in book: 106
Estimated words: 97951 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 490(@200wpm)___ 392(@250wpm)___ 327(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 97951 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 490(@200wpm)___ 392(@250wpm)___ 327(@300wpm)
“The best-case scenario however was getting that girl away from him. It would have been perfect if she took the money. It would be evidence that she is just another gold digger, willing to take the cash and toss him aside. Finally, I’d have him to the point where he’d be miserable and realize that there was no way out of this. Regardless of her reasoning—whether for love, protection, or greed—she would have been gone! Mission accomplished. He would in no way, shape, or form be happy without her, Sam…
“She was our golden ticket. With that situation, and his mother’s side of the family being shunned, he’d finally fold after all of these years. But instead, none of that happened, now did it?” He shoved his hands in his pockets and rocked back on his boot heels. “Because you fucked it up!”
“She wouldn’t have fallen for it either way, Grandpa! This isn’t all my fault!”
Grandpa marched swiftly up to Sam and grabbed his fractured arm, squeezing it.
“AHHHH!!!!”
“You dimwitted fool.” He wrapped his hand tightly around the fucker’s shirt collar and lifted him from his seat. Sam’s complexion deepened to a blood orange, and he struggled to breathe, gurgling as his feet ran against nothing but air. “Since you decided to use the threat of violence to ger your point across, you should’ve done it right! If you’d had your gun pointed at her gotdamn head as soon as you walked into that fucking shower room, she would have done whatever the hell you told her to do. She chose him over the money and additional funds to pay full college tuition only because she’d gotten the upper hand on you! That’s the only reason why this shit fell through!
“You never let a bitch get the best of you, and you never let a bitch get one over on you! She would have complied to save her own pathetic, miserable life!” He released him, tossing him back down into the chair, and took a couple of steps back. Sam sighed in pain as he rubbed the side of his reddened neck. “Now, Lennox is going to dig his heels in even harder. He knows for sure that she’s loyal down to her bones. Like him! Like a gotdamn dog! She’s a real bitch!” He laughed dismally.
“… I wish you would’ve just let me kill her! I coulda just gone in, put the silencer on, and shot her. No conversation needed! No negotiations! No nothing!” Sam’s face balled up with regret as he peered from the corner of his eye, still rubbing on his neck.
“I told you that I don’t kill women unless it’s absolutely necessary. And besides, she’s the dangling carrot. You don’t kill the carrot, Sam. You use the carrot to nab the rabbit. Lennox is the prey, not her. She’s the bone. He’s a dog to his core, and he only serves one master. First, it was his mother. I got lucky and his mother died. Then, it was complete loyalty to his sister. I got Silva away from him with no issue, but he still wouldn’t budge. Now, it’s Nadia. She’s the new leader of his heart. I need that master seat. I deserve it.”
“Still, you just shoulda let me kill her, just shoulda killed ’er!” Sam blubbered under his breath. His face streaked with angry tears as he repeated the same ol’ delirious mantra.
“Not only is your body bruised, but so is your ego.” Grandpa sighed.
“I’m sorry, Grandpa.”
“Yeah? Well sorry doesn’t help, now does it?” he scoffed. “In some strange way though, I kinda appreciate her boldness, her grit, and will to survive.”
“It all happened so fast.” Sam threw him a blank gaze.
“I imagine it did. Yeah, I hate to admit it, but that harlot is definitely a rare one, isn’t she?” He shrugged. “Admirable in this day and age. I underestimated her, it seems, and I take full accountability for that.”
The corner of his lip twitched, and flashes of her face from his investigation photos flooded his mind. She angered and astounded him all at once. “I studied her, as I always do in these cases. She’d proven how money hungry she is for many years. She charges an arm and a leg for her OnlyFans live cam videos. Had, at one point, a bunch of little businesses going in Atlanta, like under the table legal advice for strippers, somethin’ like that.” He began to pace slowly back and forth. “All the signs were pointing to the likelihood of her caving.
“She didn’t appear to be morally sound in the least. First and foremost, the Jezebel is a complete tramp.” He laughed mirthlessly. “She’s had more boyfriends than you can shake a stick or dick at. No daddy in the picture, a workaholic mother who was barely home, from what I could gather. She didn’t grow up in the best neighborhood, either. A lot of gangs, violence, and drugs were around her community. She’s also a college dropout. The odds were in my favor and yet still, she didn’t fold on Len.” He shook his head in disbelief as Neil Diamond’s, ‘Song Song Blue’ played. “She’s got balls, that’s for damn sure.”