SWNOVELS Chapter 121
Chapter 121
Tabitha brought a glass to my lips. Her hand laying under my chin gently.
“You need to drink, Adelaide. Your baby needs it”
My eyes went wide as I took the water into my mouth. I ripped my lips away from the bottle.
“I’m not pregnant, I don’t know what baby you are talking about.”
If she knew, did that mean that Ashton and Angela knew too? I couldn’t risk them finding out I was pregnant. I would have to
convince them I wasn’t pregnant. No matter what happened, I had to keep this baby safe.
“Don’t worry, I’m the only one that knows. I didn’t tell them that you’re pregnant.” She smiled softly at me before she brought the
water to my lips again. “I am not a cruel person. A baby is a gift and should be treasured, not abused or used as a bargaining
tool.”
1 took the water from her and made sure that I was hydrated. My hands were still bound to the chair but at least Angela and
Ashton had stepped away.
Ashton may have thought that he was the mastermind behind this whole operation but the poor fool was being played like a
violin. This was Angela’s plan. She didn’t need the money, she wanted the one thing that she knew she could never have as long
as I was around.
“Tabitha.” I looked into her eyes just praying that somehow I could get through to her. “Please, you don’t have to do this. I know
that you are innocent in all of this. You have been roped into doing this by these two psychos. You are a good person. Please
just untie me and let me go.”
I could see the conflict in her eyes. She wanted to let me go but I also knew her blind loyalty to that man was unwavering. She
had stayed with him after everything with Corinna for crying out loud. If she could put up with that, who knew what she was
willing to do?
“I can’t.” She looked away from me, placing the water down. “I need to do this for Bella. The money from the ransom will be used
for her future and her education later on.”
Oh, how wrong she was.
“No, it won’t be, Tabitha. Angela is playing you both. Ashton wants to be with Angela but Angela wants Damon. She wants to
keep him all to herself and she is using you two in this plan of hers. I don’t know exactly what it is yet but I do know that it’s not
good. And she will treat you like collateral. You can’t trust her.”
I could tell that my words were upsetting her from the way she was scowling at me. She shook her head sadly and stood to
her feet.
“You’re wrong. Ashton and I have been very happy together since his divorce. 1le’s been around more for me and Bella. He
cares about us-about me.” Even from the look in her eyes, I knew that was trying to convince herself that her own words
were true.
Despite her part in all this, I felt bad for her. She’d fallen in love with a monster and she really had no idea what he was capable
of doing.
“Can you truly say he treats you kindly? He only came to find you after the divorce with my sister. If they had not gotten divorced,
he would have never left her side. The man has an agenda and you are simply a means to an end for him. I know you don’t want
to see it that way because your love for him is blinding you but you know I’m not wrong about this.” She tore her eyes from me,
her lips coming in between her teeth. “He loves me. I know he does.”
“No,” I pleaded with her to see sense. “He doesn’t love you. He loves what you can do for him and there is a difference. You
need to value yourself more than you care for him. You need to stand up and choose yourself because if you don’t-” “For fuck’s
sake shut up.”
Angela came around the corner and into the living room. She had changed into a black outfit that looked like she was a spy in
some bad 2000s movie. “Do you know that you talk way too much? It’s actually irritating. And you, Tabby, you can leave.” She
waved her hands dismissively at her and scowled with disgust.
“But Ashton told me to stay with her.”
“Ashton isn’t in charge, I am and I am telling you to leave me alone with my little friend over here. We have some catching up to
do, don’t we Adie?”
“Go to hell, Angela,” I hissed at her with as much venom as I could muster. She was grating on my last nerve and all 1 could
think of at this moment was, yet again, she was causing havoc in my life.
A permanent solution needed to be found for her.
“Such harsh words for a little small-town girl like you. Do you kiss your husband with that mouth of yours?”
I glared at her but this time I didn’t respond.
“Tabitha leave, you are no longer needed here.“
Tabitha nodded solemnly and stood up. She gave me a look before she exited out of the room leaving me with the witch.
“Oh, how the tables have turned,” she leered at me with a smirk on her face. “You called your checkmate a little too early.
Adelaide. You forgot that you were playing with a master.”
I scoffed. “Are you ashamed?”
“Of what exactly?”
“The fact that you duped them both into thinking that this is all about the money. But I have to hand it to you, Angela, you really
have outdone yourself this time.”
“It’s not my fault the two of them are gullible and broken. The poor girl can’t even see that this man wants nothing to do with her
and Ashton still wants the perfect life. When people are desperate that is when you strike. You can get people to do practically
anything when they see no other option.”
I looked over her shoulder and saw that Tabitha was peeking around the corner.
Yes. This was exactly what I had hoped for. I just needed her to rat on herself and then maybe I would find an ally in Tabitha.
“I always knew you were sick and twisted but to make Ashton believe you love him when you know that Tabitha has given her
entire heart and soul to that man? I didn’t see that coming.”
“She fell in love with the wrong man, and besides, it wasn’t hard to convince a narcissist like him. All I needed to do was tell him
everything he wanted to hear. Hook. Line. And sinker.”
This was perfect. This was exactly what I wanted but when I looked over her shoulder and hoped to see the small peak of brown
hair by the corner, it was gone.
Where had she gone?
Angela grabbed my chin roughly forcing me to look her way. She brought her face mere inches from mine, the smell of her lunch
wafting in my face.
“By the time he finds you, you will be dead somewhere in a ditch and I will be right there beside him to comfort him when he
needs it most. With you out of my way, he will finally be where he belongs.”
She had lost it for sure.
“Checkmate, Adelaide.”
Before I could respond to her Ashton came around the corner with a furious look in his eyes. His face took on this ferocious red
color and the vein in the side of his head popped out.
“What the fuck, Angela?!”
Oh no, Angela. This game was still in motion.