SWNOVELS 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”