Chapter 7
Debra wasn’t happy. She’d been trying to find out what kind of settlement Sen had gotten from her brother’s estate, and no one was cooperating with her.
As soon as she thought of something, some way of getting information, they’d take it away from her with a lawsuit by Sen.
The girl was going to piss her off more if she kept this up, and she wasn’t having it.
She was going to pay for the way that she was treating her, or she’d know the reason why.
“There was no way that she didn’t get a lot of money.
The house alone was worth more than the ten grand that I got.
” She was beginning to talk to herself more and more of late, and it didn’t bother her as much as it used to.
“Damned girl is going to pay for the way that she’s treating me, or I’m going to have to kill her. I might just do that anyway.”
She thought of the man that she said she was going to marry.
He wasn’t a human, and that alone should have had him killed.
But if she had to kill him too, then so be it.
She didn’t think anyone would care, so long as she had the money that she was sure that Sen had gotten to pay her way out of things.
Money would open doors that she’d never had opened for her before.
She knew that her daughter wouldn’t have any kind of will made out, and as her mother, she would get whatever was left to her.
Damn the man who she thought she was going to marry.
She’d just have to take him out as well if it came to it.
“I deserve whatever she has, and I’m going to get it too.
” She thought about her brother and wondered where his head was when he left whatever he’d had to her daughter.
“Not that I think there was all that much. They only lived in that tiny house all their lives. Who does that anyway when they could have had bigger?” She thought about the fact that she didn’t have a place to stay and blamed that on Sen as well.
The house that she’d lived in for the last twenty-five years had been locked out from her going there.
All the locks had been changed, and she didn’t have anything to show for her living there.
As soon as she got the money, she was going to sue Howard and make sure he paid for what he’d done to her.
Not only did she not have a house, but she didn’t even have a car to get around in either.
That was another thing that Sen was going to be paying for.
Her home had been taken from her simply because she couldn’t stay out of her business. Howard was going to pay too.
She didn’t think it was going to work to call him a pedophile again.
Too many years had gone by that anyone would even care.
She did think about telling his children and having them go after him, but she didn’t know them from anyone and didn’t even know their names.
For all she knew, they could be dead. It was something that she thought about often, him being off the hook for treating her so badly.
And he had too. Giving her the things that he had, then taking them away when Sen stuck her nose into something that didn’t concern her.
Why did she have to care about her father anyway?
“It wasn’t as if he had anything to do with her when she’d been growing up.
” Not that she had anything to do with her either, but that was beside the point.
She’d raised her as best as she could, and she dared anyone to say anything differently.
“I hate people. Particularly those who think they know it all.”
She thought that she was smart enough to get herself out of any kind of trouble.
She’d been doing it most of her life, just jumping from one situation to the next and never having to face any kind of consequences.
She liked that too. It kept her out of jail and out of trouble.
She knew that she was smart enough to take on her daughter and get what she wanted.
It was just a matter of timing. And she was good at that as well.
“Damn it all to fuck and back. Why did she have to talk to her father?” Tonight was going to be the dinner that she was going to talk to him, and she dreaded that. “There are things that he could tell her that won’t bode well for me. I hate that man with all the passion of the world.”
She didn’t much care for her daughter either, but she was going to take care of that, too.
Killing her wouldn’t be that much of a hardship for her.
She never did anything for her in the first place but complain about how she was broke all the time.
She was her mother; she should be able to sacrifice some things for her when she wanted them.
That’s what daughters were supposed to do for their mother.
She didn’t actually know what a child did for their mother.
Her own mother had never been around when she thought that she needed her.
Then, when she had died of cancer when Debra had been sixteen, her father had shipped her off to some other relatives who were to raise her.
She never cared for them either. It occurred to her that she didn’t like all that many people and knew it was their fault.
People just sucked the life out of you if you allowed them to do so, and she knew that for a fact.
Just look at what her daughter was doing to her.
As she made her way to the hotel she’d been staying in, she thought about what she needed to do tonight.
If she knew where this meeting was going to be happening, she’d crash the party and kill them all.
But that had been kept from her as well, and that pissed her off, too.
No one was helping her, and Debra didn’t like it.
“The least people could do was help me find my daughter so that I can kill her.” She’d even gotten herself a gun to use to do the deed.
It had taken all her reserve money, but that was going to be well worth it.
As soon as she killed them all off, she’d have all the things that she wanted.
She didn’t even know what that would be yet, but she was sure it was more than the ten grand that she’d gotten from the estate.
“Why do they call it that? Like it’s going to be a great deal to inherit.
Estate sounds like it should be millions of dollars, and there is no way that it could be worth that much.
” They never took vacations, and as far as she knew, the only thing they spent their money on was getting Sen in that posh school so she couldn’t get to her.
Not that it mattered, she didn’t want to have anything to do with her in the first place.
“She was just a means to get money from a wealthy man, and look how that turned out for me.”
Nothing. She’d gotten a house for sure and a car that was around for her to use whenever she wanted to go someplace.
Money in the bank, too, so long as she didn’t spend it the first few days of the month.
She’d never been on a budget in her life and didn’t plan on ever being on one.
Money was there to spend, and she did all right with that.
Debra was in her room at the hotel when she thought of something else.
Her credit card was nearly at its max, and she didn’t know what she’d do if they checked on that.
The hotel wasn’t even the best around, but it had suited her needs when she needed it.
She’d tried to make it so that the bill went to Sen, but they wouldn’t do that.
It was like everyone was against her in this thing, and she was going to have to make people understand that she was in charge, or they’d better be looking into something that would make her happy.
And she wasn’t happy at all with anyone right now.
Looking out on the street, she was dismayed to find that no one would help her find Sen.
She might have been at the house, but since she didn’t have a car, she couldn’t get there without a lot of walking.
Debra knew that she was out of shape, but didn’t care.
She wanted things, and someone was going to have to get them for her, or they’d pay.
Exercising wasn’t even a part of her life, and she hated that she couldn’t get around without her car.
She thought that she saw her daughter walking with that man again.
She went to get her gun, thinking that she’d just take care of things now, but almost as soon as she got back to the window, they were both gone.
All she needed was one shot, and she’d be able to get all that she needed.
Damn her daughter for going against her in everything that she had wanted.
As she stood in the window looking for where Sen might have gone, she thought of all the ways that she was going to spend the money that she had.
She knew that there had to be enough to get her someplace to stay, at least for a while.
Debra was just thinking about the amount there might be when her head sort of buzzed a bit.
“It’s me, the monster you call me. Ivan Frazier.” She didn’t say anything but did look around for someone in the room with her. “I’m not there but safe and sound so that you can’t shoot either of us.”
“How are you doing this? I demand to know how you’re talking to me when you’re not around.” She looked under the bed and in the bathroom for the man but couldn’t find him. “What are you doing to me?”
“I’m not doing anything to you just yet.
But you’ll be happy to know that as soon as tomorrow, Sen and I will be married, and the will is already made out.
If anything happens to her, I get her money and home.
And if something were to happen to me, then all her money would go to charity.
You’ll get nothing.” She said that she’d see about that.
“You go on thinking that and see where you end up after trying to kill us.”