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“So, you cleaning up her mess is a habit, then?” Kokou finally spoke.
“You stay out of this!” Cassandra shrieked. “Just because you’re fucking him gives you no right to speak here.”
I turned in time to see the demon fill my woman’s eyes. When she looked at me, I tilted my head and she turned back to fold her arms and look down over the land beneath us.
“I’m only going to say this once.” I spoke. “If you can’t address her with respect, Cassandra, don’t. It takes very little effort to cut out your tongue.”
Cassandra clamped her mouth closed.
“You do know my history with your wife, right?” I referred to Jack.
“I thought I did—what’s this about?”
“We have a child.” I informed him. “One that Cassandra wanted to abort. In order for her not to do that I had to threaten her—then pay her one hundred thousand dollars. When the baby came, she couldn’t sign her rights over fast enough.”
Disgust washed over Jack’s face.
With Cassandra, she shrunk so small into the corner she’d been standing in, it stunned me.
“For whatever reason a few weeks ago, someone showed up at my daughter’s school and tried taking her.” I continued, keeping my eyes on her. “Then I went through a series of unfortunate accidents. Long story short—”
“Too late.” Kokou grumbled.
“Your wife, hired a group of people to kidnapmydaughter and kill me.” I continued. “The last part was a surprise to me. I didn’t really find that out until a few days ago when they interrogated the woman she hired.”
Jack’s face grew pale.
“Don’t forget the innocent teacher they murdered.” Kokou reminded me.
“Yeah—there’s that.” I lounged backward into my chair. “Coming after my child was unforgiveable then she compounded that by shooting the woman I love.”
“Please—you wouldn’t know love if it slapped you in the face!” Cassandra spat.
“Shut up!” Jack snapped. “Where did you get the money for this?”
She shrunk again and folded her arms behind her back, avoiding Jack’s gaze.
“I gave you everything,” Jack said to her. “Every-fucking-thing! And it’s one disaster after another with you! How did I fall in love with you—how did—you were using my money to hire assassins to kill people? Why the child?”
Cassandra sobbed.
“Cassandra!” Jack roared.
She screamed, jumped a foot in the air and covered her face.
“We’ve been trying to get pregnant for a while.” Cassandra sobbed after dropping her hands. “And it hasn’t been working—we both knew it. I went to the doctor to get a physical and he told me that I can no longer have children. Primary ovarian insufficiency, is what they’re calling it—premature ovarian failure. Can you believe that? I knew if I couldn’t give you a child, you’d leave.”
“And you think I’d be okay with you stealing someone else’s?”
“She’s mine!” Cassandra barked. “I carried her for nine months. I pushed her out.”
“She’s not yours!” Jack snapped. “Carrying her for nine months means shit when you dumped her like yesterday’s garbage and vanish!”
I was glad Jack said it.
“Ten minutes.” Kokou called from where she was standing.
“Please, Jack!” Cassandra rushed over to Jack and took his hand. “Help me this one time! I’m begging you! I can’t go to prison. I’ll never survive in prison.”
