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"You were going tohere," his brother yelps
"Diana," Maddox speaks, ignoring the do between his brother and sister-in-law "Find your precious lawyer, Jefferson, and get this shit rolling I don’t really give a damn if you have to sell this very house to be able to afford to buy me out You want it that much, make it happen"
She doesn’t look happy about it, but she stoet too far, Maddox calls out for her I watch has she walks back in with a little less supreht think you’ve won You have the girl you think I want You have this shithole in Texas and a company six months from bankruptcy But, brother, you will never have the world because I already fucking found it I’m worth more than you will ever see in your lifeti up inyou wish you had And the best thing? I have a wo I am and ever will be One who isn’t just with me because of some purse or shoe she wants at thekill you," he spits
"You could fucking try, but even with my hands tied behind oes pale before he stor the door in his wake His mother hasn’t moved from her spot She looks at Maddox with shock and maybe a little respect
"Maybe I underestimated you, stupid boy I’ll have Jefferson send you the paperwork" She shakes her head and follows his brother out of the room
"Looks like it’s just us, Mercedes I do have a question for you Why?"
She crosses her bone-thin arms over her chest and huffs "That, Maddox, is easy Mason pro world The best clothes, houses, cars Ultiet you out of the picture soiven lass on ht and fake a few orgas before you shipped out was all my idea We just had to throw a few lines of bullshit out there and wait for your teet the best of you I knew you wouldn’t question what they were saying Not only are you just too fucking stupid, but when I dropped the baby bo about that" She laughs and rows "You didn’t even question the baby You just believedstupid"
"What do you fucking mean, I believed you? I saw the picture of you, Mason, and the baby"
Her laughter takes on an insane crackle Just the volu struck again e decided to go visit a friend of your brother’s who had had their first little baby So and you couldn’t tell a difference I knew you would buy it at face value There never was a baby" She laughs again, and that rage that was building hits a boiling point
"You see," she says while stepping forward and dragging her fingertip down his chest "I just needed tothat final nail into your heart was the perfect way You wouldn’t have co pride for that And since, unfortunately for ot yourself blown the fuck up didn’t work and all you lost was your stupid leg"
Oh, I did not just hear her say that
"You Fucking Bitch!" I scream and drop Maddox hand I hear him stress my name before I turn into a human torpedo and launch ainstaway at my veins I land on her and latch on like a round I can hear Maddox yelling my name, but he doesn’t atte bitch!" I yell before punching her in the face My fist hits her jaw first Then I shift ive her another hard slam into her ribs "I’ll kill you! I will!" I get threelifted off her I look down and spit on her "You never deserved hi STUPID to realize just what kind of ood look, bitch, because you will never knohat it feels like to be with a REAL ht between her eyes
She et ht in the ass, laughing when she falls forward and knocks into the bookshelf, sending a few dozen books from the shelves onto her prone fore s out my hair and clothes "I do How about you, baby?"
His eyes go soft and he gives el I’ve never felt better ininto his eyes, I believe it Until I feel a sharp pain in ainstertips
"Maddox?"
"Yeah, E his eyes from where Mercedes still hasn’t oes still "Eo to a hospital," I whisper
He looks frooes white and I’m in his arms He doesn’t respond when hisafter hi the car in park and carrying ency rooo of that last tie gave me a sense of peace I hadn’t fathomed possible I didn’t feel pain from my mother’s or brother’s words I didn’t even flinch when Mercedes told me just how deep her deceit had been I even wanted to laugh when Eht her like a world-class boxer