Chapter 2 #3
“It’s my brother’s estate. I just know she’s gotten more money than I did.
She already got his house and all the crap he had in it.
Cindy never did have a lick of decorating sense, and it shows throughout the house.
Damn it, just tell me how much money she has in her account.
That’s all I wanted.” She was being stared at, and she hated that.
It wouldn’t have been so bad if it were just a couple, but the entire bank was filled with people, some of them even had their phones out recording her.
“Damn it, stop recording me. I demand that you stop that right now. It’s my brother’s estate, and I deserve it more than my stupid daughter does. ”
Debra found herself outside on the sidewalk after being dragged out of the building. She had lost her shoe. So when it was tossed out at her, she picked it up and was ready to throw it back at the man when she realized that people had come outside and were filming her still.
“Have you nothing better to do than to go around filming people when they’re at their worst?
I just lost my brother and his wife.” People started walking away, but a few stayed.
She turned to put on her shoe and leave when she saw her daughter coming down the street. “I’ll get this finished up right now.”
“Mother. The bank called and said you were trying to get into my accounts. I’ve told you before that’s none of your business.
Stay out of my information, or I’ll have to have a restraining order put against you.
I don’t have time to keep running down here every time you get a burr up your ass about how much money I have in my accounts.
” She asked her how much she had in her accounts.
“I’m not going to tell you. First of all, I’m a grown woman who makes her own money in life, and secondly, it’s none of your business.
I don’t go around asking you how much money you have in your accounts, do I? ”
“I’d tell you if you’d ask. I don’t have any secrets to hide from you.
” She just looked at her, and Debra had to turn away or feel guilty.
She did have her secrets, and she wasn’t going to be blabbing them to her just because she was pissed off.
“Why are you keeping me from your accounts? I used to borrow from them all the time.”
“Yes, and you’d make it so that I was short when it came time to cash checks for my rent and food.
I don’t like to have you running your nose in what I have in the bank.
It’s none of your business.” She pointed out that she was her mother.
“Yes, I understand that. You’ve always used that excuse when you want something that I have.
Well, it’s not going to work this time. I’m my own person, and you can’t bully me into telling you.
Because of you, I’m late going to the house to see what I want to keep or not. ”
“Don’t keep any of it. I was just telling someone that Cindy had the worst taste when it came to decorating her home.
The utmost worst.” She told her that she always thought she had excellent taste.
“You would. You just want to suck up to her. Well, it’s too late for that now. She’s dead, and good riddance to her.”
“Mother! You don’t mean that.” She said that she did, and if she were here right now, she’d tell her to her face, too. “What did she ever do to you? Aunt Cindy was the nicest person in the world, next to Uncle Robert. I think they made a wonderful couple.”
The smack to her face felt good, and Debra was drawing back to hit her again when she smacked her back. Holding her hand to her face, she asked her what she’d done that for and was told that she did it first. Well, that wasn’t going to be all right with her.
“I’m your mother, and by rights I can hit you whenever I want.
” She was going to hit her in the face with her fist when Sen told her that she’d better be rethinking where her mind was going because she would give as good as she got.
“We’ll just have to see about that, won’t we.
And the next time you hit me, you’d better have a gun because I will.
Do you understand me? I won’t put up with you hurting your mother. ”
“He was right, you are dangerous.” She didn’t know who her daughter was talking about, but she was glad she was finally seeing her for what she was.
Debra could be very dangerous when provoked.
And right now her daughter was pushing all the right buttons to get herself killed.
“Stay away from me, mother. I’ve had enough of you and the way you go around thinking that you can get away with anything. ”
“I will hang on to you until I get what I want, and if that means I’m going to get into your accounts, I will.
You got more than I did, and I’m not happy.
Don’t you remember when you were a child, what happened to you when I wasn’t happy?
I miss those days.” She could see fear on Sen’s face and liked seeing it there.
“You just give me what I want, and things will go well for you. However, if I find out that you’ve gotten more than me in my own brother’s estate, I will kill you for it. I’m not kidding you right now.”
“Stay away from me.” When she turned her back on her to leave, Debra wanted to kick her down on the ground and beat her.
But there were too many people around, and she didn’t want to have to go back to jail.
She remembered that as well. Ending up in jail wasn’t anything that she wanted to happen again, either.
Her brother had done that to her when she’d beaten Sen one afternoon.
She remembered his words well. “You’ll never see her again unless it’s behind bars if you so much as slap her for doing something wrong.
” She said she was her kid. “For now, she is. I’m going to make arrangements to have her sent away to boarding school, and while she’s there, you’re going to get your shit together and remember why you have that nice house and car. ”
“You have nothing to do with either.” Robert told her that he knew Howard. “Howard who? You think you know everything. Well, you don’t. He wanted me to have this house.”
“You blackmailed him. He gave you the house and the car for as long as you live so that you’d not tell people that he raped you.
When we all know the truth, don’t we, Debra?
You got yourself pregnant with Sen and decided to blackmail the nicest man I’ve ever known.
So you got a house and a car out of him in exchange, he’s never to have anything to do with Sen.
Christ, Sen would have been better off with Howard.
But you couldn’t just allow him to raise her, could you?
You had to have something over him. Well, if you ever hit her again, I’ll contact him and make sure he knows just what sort of mother you have been to his daughter.
She’s going to boarding school, and she’ll love it.
Anytime spent away from you is a good time, I’m sure of it. ”
That had been the last time they spoke, her and her brother.
She was never invited to his home again, and when Sen came home from school, she would spend all her time with her uncle.
Debra couldn’t do shit about it because he had her in a place that wouldn’t have boded well had she made a fuss.
She liked living in the big fancy house with servants around all the time.
She didn’t have to do anything at all to stay there either.
And you’d think that she was in heaven, but she wasn’t.
The servants didn’t answer to her. They kept the house cleaned up and the food cooked for her, but they didn’t interact with her.
She couldn’t even fire them for not speaking to her, either.
And they didn’t unless she asked them a direct question about the household.
The yard was mowed and trimmed along with the bushes.
But as far as living in a great big house with all the servants, it was like living in a prison without anyone to talk to.
She thought that was why she went to talk to her daughter so much.
At least she would answer her questions when she had them.
She did wonder what ever happened to Howard Bash.
He’d been a good time, but that had soured when she tried to get money from him about Sen.
He was more than likely dead by now. Good riddens, she thought, and continued home.
She was going to find out what happened to him, and then she was going to get more out of him.
She needed to get what she wanted, and that was it.