Oh, she wasn’t done.
“Every penny is now going into an account that will be disbursed to the victims of your fuckery,” she said. “You probably shouldn’t have given me the clues about the marriage sacrament and the Colombian roses. That told me where to look.”
When he went to speak, Maura hit him so hard in the gut, he vomited.
Yeah, she didn’t want to hear him speak.
“Thank you, bestie.”
She just nodded.
Elizabeth continued.
“I found every penny. My hackers are better than your hackers,” she said. “See, I know all about your apprentices and helpers. Killing the ME inCorpus Christiwasn’t enough. We took out the mercenary you hired to kill him.”
Devon couldn’t believe any of this.
It had been foolproof.
HOW?
“David Stedman died in a shooting that was disguised to look like a fire,” she offered, proving she wasn’t bluffing. “Not only him, but Veruca Filmore, the woman you hired to take out both the minister and his wife, was also killed earlier today in a park in Baltimore.”
He was shocked.
“How?”
She was honest.
“Because you’re not the biggest monster in the room,” she said. “See the Marines around you?” she asked, introducing them. “They work for me. What you didn’t realize is I have a whole other side, Devon. I fight evil with tools you never considered. They not only helped me tie up the loose ends, the ones you planned on using to prove you weren’t behind this as you ruined my career, but they finished it for me.”
Devon didn’t know how he’d lost to her.
He was smarter.
He was better.
His father told him so!
Elizabeth continued.
“The florist that poisoned the flowers?” she asked. “I killed her myself. I snapped her neck like a twig. The mad bomber? The one you hired to blow us up as we were parked next to the car with all the explosives? He’s dead too. I put a bullet in his head. Look at that, Devon. I did it all outside of the law, too. Bet you didn’t see that coming.”
Devon screamed in rage.
Only, she didn’t care. She let him have his hissy fit and then leveled him with what was coming.
His undoing.
“You dug up my parents, thinking that would bother me. Well, that was a miscalculation too. As soon as I saw the bones, and learned their ages, Devon, I knew. I’ve been doing this a long time. Country Road, take me home,” she said. “That was about me, Ethan, and Deputy Bishop. You gave me too much.”
The best part of this for Elizabeth was the look on his face. He was genuinely bewildered.
“Since you brought our parents into this, I had your parents pulled from their mausoleums.”
He tried to go nuts, as she flipped open the coffins, but it was damn difficult to do, bound to a chair.
“Tit for tat, pussy cat,” she said. “You planning to hurt my daughter…if you think as a mother, that wouldn’t put me over the edge?” she asked. “You clearly don’t understand a mother’s love. I bet yours tried to save you, but your filthy fucking scumbag, impotent limp dick daddy had his claws in you.”
