Chapter 122


    I could see Tabitha who stood behind Ashton, looking terrified. There was a stalemate between the two


    psychopaths as they stared each other down. Ashton looked like a raging bull while Ang was eerily


    calm and collected.


    That was a superpower of hers I had noticed over time. She was able to remain calm in the mist tense


    of environments in order to get a rise out of you. But thest thing we needed right now was to get a


    rise out of Ashton. He was unstable even on the best of days.


    “All of this is a lie?” His voice boomed against the walls of the cabin. “You lied to me!”


    “Ohe now, I literally met you two weeks ago. It’s your fault for believing me and it doesn’t matter


    anyway. You will get your money and I will get Damon, it’s a win-win”


    “But you said you wanted to kill her. That was not what I signed up for. I am not a killer.”


    “Oh, but you will be and quite honestly think of it this way, she will be gone and you will be free to go


    after her sister. The entire reason Corinna called it off was because she was in her ear. Now you can


    get your wife back like you always wanted


    to.”


    The room grew silent as he thought it over. His eyes moved from me to Ang and then back again.


    This psychopath was actually thinking about it. Was the man truly obsessed with my sister like that,


    that he wanted to trap her yet again even though she had made it perfectly clear that she was happier


    without him? Had the public humiliation not been enough? He must also be living in the samend of


    delusion that Ang was.


    “But what about the ran80111?”


    That was the first thing that came out of his mouth.


    “You will still get the ransom, and I will get what I always wanted, the love of my life.”


    I had to keep myself from scoting under my breath because of how crazy this all sounded.


    I looked over Asthon’s shoulder to see where Tabitha was and she still stood behind him. I could see


    the hurt swimming in her eyes and not to mention the unshed tears that pulled into them as well. Her


    worst nightmare wasing true but to be quite honest with you she was just only realizing the reality


    that was always there.


    Ashton never belonged to her no matter how badly she wanted him to. There was only one thing she


    cared about and that was Ashton


    “You will finally be able to begin a new life and get that political career that you have been craving so


    dearly and desperately. With the money that you will receive from this, you can be whoever you


    want to be. You could go wherever you wanted to go, you would finally be a free man no longer bound


    to the chams of these people”


    I had to hand it to her, the woman was good. She even had me believing for a split second there.


    “Ashton, not even you can be this blind to what she’s clearly doing to you.” I stared at him hoping that


    some form ofmon sense would suddenly form in his mind. But hoping for such was like hoping for


    a downpour in the desert. “Shut up!” This time it was Ang who exploded, her voice vibrating against


    the walls of the cabin. “Don’t you get it. Adide? 1. Win.”


    I was about to open my mouth when I heard the undistinguishable click of a gune from behind


    Ashton. Everyone stood incredibly still and all of our heads turned to Where Tabitha stood. With shaky


    hands, she held a gun toward us. Her eyes were wide with panic and hurt, cool hands trembling most


    likely from the foreign feeling of having the gun in her hands. Ashton held his hands up to show that he


    was not a threat to her. Ang stood stoically beside my chair keeping eye contact with Tabitha.


    “So, this was the n all along?!” Tabitha’s voice broke. “She was right this entire time. You two didn’t


    give a shit about me. You didn’t even care about our daughter in all of this-you liar!”


    Ashton trembled a little bit but he kept strong in his stance.


    “Oh great, who gave the fragile little puppy a gun?” Ang said sarcastically.


    Tabitha pointed the gun to the far right and shot the vase causing it to shatter. I let out a loud shriek and


    closed my eyes.


    “Don’t patronize me you bitch!” Tabitha looked all set deranged as she pointed her gun at Ang. “All I


    wanted was a happy family, for the man I loved to love me back but no why couldn’t you just love me,


    Ashton?”


    “Tabitha,” Ashton moved toward her slowly like one would a wounded animal. “Please put the gun


    down and let’s talk.” “No! Enough talking. Stay back!” She waved the gun around like a mad woman


    and 1 feared that she would identally pull the trigger.


    “You sure know how to pick a baby mama, Ashton. You and your brother are the same.” Ang


    sounded the least bit affected by all of this. In fact, she sounded bored of all of this.


    “Can we stop this whole little show and get back to the n at hand? Boohoo, you aren’t loved. Move


    on, Tabitha.”


    Ironicing from her.


    “No! You listen to me, I will not-no!”Owned by N?velDrama.Org.


    Ashton lunged for her and they wrestled over the gun for a few seconds. I was bound to the chair


    completely at the mercy of these people. The panic poured into me as I tried to figure out a way for me


    to get to safety.


    “Give me the gun, Tabitha.”


    The next few sequences happened in slow motion. First, I heard the unmistakable shatter of ss.


    Then, there was the small zip right by my ear. Andstly, the blood-curdling scream of Ashton Steyn.


    The blood sttered onto my face as his body dropped to the floor. The sound of Tabitha’s screams


    filled my ears. Everything seemed to move in slow motion. Ashton’s body hit the ground and then the


    door to the cabin burst open and in came people dressed in all ck screaming and shouting


    commands that I could notprehend.


    My eyes stayed glued to the body thatid on the floor, with blood pooling out of it. I needed a sign to


    know if he was alive or if he was dead.


    I could hear Ang and Tabitha’s distant screams as the men tackled them to the ground and cuffed


    them. I didn’t know if they were police or some kind of special task force.


    This all felt like a dream almost, like I was there but I wasn’t at the same time.


    The muffled screams grew more and more distant as the shock cemented itself into


    my


    bones.


    Guns. Bullets. Blood.


    That was all I could think of at this time. Tabitha had fired a shot and it hadnded inside of Ashton.


    “Adide?” a voice called to me in the thick of the chaos but it sounded so far away. “Baby, look at me.


    Come on, look at


    me.”


    I blinked, my eyes lifting from the body and being forced to look up. It took me a few minutes for his


    face to be clearer.


    “D-Damon?” I didn’t even recognize my own voice. It sounded so foreign.


    “You’re safe now,” he cupped my face and pressed his cold lips against mine. “I’m here, it’s all over.”


    Over? It was done now?


    “You’re safe now.”


    Those three words were what set me over the edge. Maybe it was the fact that I had to put on a brave


    face for so long and now I could finally let the resolve drop. The tears started falling on their own


    ord and my heart felt like it was about to explode from the sheer relief.


    “It’s over?” I sniffed.


    The ropes were undone and my arms wound their way around my husband’s neck, his familiar scent


    surrounding me.


    “It’s over, baby”