Chapter 122

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 Angela 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 the last 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!”

“Oh come 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 Angela 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 same land of

delusion that Angela 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 was coming 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 become 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 of common 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 Angela who exploded, her voice vibrating against

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

I was about to open my mouth when I heard the undistinguishable click of a gun come 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. Angela stood stoically beside my chair keeping eye contact with Tabitha.

“So, this was the plan 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?” Angela 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 Angela. “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 accidentally pull the trigger.

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

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 plan at hand? Boohoo, you aren’t loved. Move

on, Tabitha.”

Ironic coming from her.

“No! You listen to me, I will not-no!”

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 glass.

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

The blood splattered 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 black screaming and shouting

commands that I could not comprehend.

My eyes stayed glued to the body that laid 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 Angela 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 had landed inside of Ashton.

“Adelaide?” 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 become 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

accord 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”